Post by account_disabled on Feb 11, 2024 8:51:47 GMT
You know I get really excited when I read a book. I just read a great book called Deep Work by Cal Newport which is very famous right now but as I was reading it I was thinking that by this time tomorrow I will have forgotten about it. thing. I it and get excited about it and then not keep it. So that's why the saying keep what you read really stood out to me. Can you talk a little bit about the importance of that and how you do that Jonathan I'm going to step back a little bit and talk about some light neuroscience specifically.
What I like to call evolutionary neuroscience. We are visual creatures. We don't realize it but Antigua and Barbuda Email List first and foremost we have to think about what kind of things might have provided a survival advantage to Homo sapiens that have roamed the Serengeti for the past half million years. It turns out smell and taste are very important. If you remember the smell of rancid food, that's a pretty huge survival advantage. If you remember that certain different bitter flavors are poisons that's a pretty big survival advantage. What took over as the most memorable was the location and visuals.
Do I remember the markings on the faces of the friendly tribes and the unfriendly tribes? Did you know that we can recognize other people's faces in about milliseconds? Why did we develop it? Why is it so important? If you took two seconds to tell if I was a friend or an enemy, I spent milliseconds so who of us would survive the coming battle so we remembered the faces we remembered the visual information the exact color of the poisonous berries the edible snake versus the exact color of the snake that could kill me.
What I like to call evolutionary neuroscience. We are visual creatures. We don't realize it but Antigua and Barbuda Email List first and foremost we have to think about what kind of things might have provided a survival advantage to Homo sapiens that have roamed the Serengeti for the past half million years. It turns out smell and taste are very important. If you remember the smell of rancid food, that's a pretty huge survival advantage. If you remember that certain different bitter flavors are poisons that's a pretty big survival advantage. What took over as the most memorable was the location and visuals.
Do I remember the markings on the faces of the friendly tribes and the unfriendly tribes? Did you know that we can recognize other people's faces in about milliseconds? Why did we develop it? Why is it so important? If you took two seconds to tell if I was a friend or an enemy, I spent milliseconds so who of us would survive the coming battle so we remembered the faces we remembered the visual information the exact color of the poisonous berries the edible snake versus the exact color of the snake that could kill me.