Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

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i109966624 |b1060006372958 |deve |g- |m231117 |h5 |x0 |t1 |i1 |j70 |k170511 |n12-14-2017 20:02 |o- |a612.8 |rSAP We reach our best long-term strategic consequentialist decisions when we engage both reason and intuition, amygdala and dlPFC. Data + gut = best decisions. Ho Chi Minh rejected the offer Chinese troops on the ground during the Vietnam War saying that the Americans will leave in a year or a decade but the Chinese will stay for a thousand years if we let them in. Finding out there everyone disagrees with you activate something in your mind that tells you that you’re different and that being different = being wrong. The greater the activation of the circuit the greater the likelihood of changing answers to confirm. This has to do with engagement in the emotional the vmPFC.

This book is a masterful distillation of academic research on social behavior. It's creatively organized, clearly written, and always fascinating. I listened on audiobook, but will probably buy a physical copy for reference. Or at other points, he talks about studies I am unfamiliar with but because he's sacrificed his credibility on studies I do know a bit about, I don't trust his interpretations. I think to myself, "hmmm, that sounds suspect."Angier, Natalie (April 13, 2004). "No Time for Bullies: Baboons Retool Their Culture". New York Times Archives. New York Times Company . Retrieved August 5, 2014. I’m also quite convinced many readers will be put off by Sapolsky’s humour (he is not afraid of using abbreviations like OMG either), and some who don’t get the humour might even think he’s insulting to other scientists – similarly to how many people get confused by Bertrand Russell’s use of irony and have a hard time telling when he’s serious and not. But with Sapolsky it’s a lot more obvious. He’s a good-humoured guy with a very self-deprecating sense of humour, and there is a lot of it in the book (stay tuned). He is well aware he’s a slightly aloof professor whose body is only a means to transport his brain; a man who has spent some 30 years alone in the savannahs of Africa studying baboons. I think he’s great for it. The tone in general is quite conversational – which again I was expecting; Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers was written in the same vein. Becoming more comfortable with the notion of ‘strong opinions, weakly held’ and seeking out information not only to prove or validate your view but also to discredit and invalidate it, will lead to the ‘more right’ solution. However, when it comes to almost anything, we can almost never say we are absolutely right because there are so many potential variables and bits of information that we’re just not taking into account.

Emperor Has No Clothes Award -- Robert Sapolsky". Freedom From Religion Foundation . Retrieved December 7, 2013. However, while the aforementioned techniques all work really well for remembering bits and pieces of a book for example, it didn’t help me to retain all of the key points. So I’ve decided to start writing book summaries, not only to aid my own learning and retention of key pieces of information, but also to help you accelerate your learning.And so the first category of explanation is the neurobiological one. A behavior occurs--whether an example of humans at our best, worst, or somewhere in between. What went on in a person's brain a second before the behavior happened? Then Sapolsky pulls out to a slightly larger field of vision, a little earlier in time: What sight, sound, or smell caused the nervous system to produce that behavior? And then, what hormones acted hours to days earlier to change how responsive that individual is to the stimuli that triggered the nervous system? By now he has increased our field of vision so that we are thinking about neurobiology and the sensory world of our environment and endocrinology in trying to explain what happened. A wiki walk can be as refreshing to the mind as a walk through nature in this completely overrated real life outside books: One for the single lads: Heterosexual women prefer the smell of high testosterone men (so Google “how to boost your testosterone” now. i134740257 |b3325302064140 |ddcanf |g- |m |h8 |x1 |t0 |i0 |j300 |k201210 |n08-16-2022 21:09 |o- |a612.8 SAPOLSKY

Robert Morris Sapolsky is an American neuroendocrinologist and author. He is currently a professor of biology, and professor of neurology and neurological sciences and, by courtesy, neurosurgery, at Stanford University." Racism, inequality, and conflict: an interview with Prof. Robert Sapolsky". Tehran Times. July 15, 2020 . Retrieved July 15, 2020.

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Sapolsky's work has been featured widely in the press, most notably in the National Geographic documentary Stress: Portrait of a Killer, [25] [26] articles in The New York Times, [27] [28] Wired magazine, [29] the Stanford magazine, [30] and The Tehran Times. [31] His speaking style (e.g., on Radiolab, [32] The Joe Rogan Experience, [33] and his Stanford human behavioral biology lectures [34]) has garnered attention. [35] Sapolsky's specialization in primatology and neuroscience has made him prominent in the public discussion of mental health—and, more broadly, human relationships—from an evolutionary perspective. [36] [37] In April 2017, Sapolsky gave a TED Talk. [38] [39] If by adolescence limbic, autonomic, and endocrine systems are going full blast, while the frontal cortex is still working out the assembly instructions, we’ve just explained why adolescents are so frustrating, great, asinine, impulsive, inspiring, destructive, self-destructive, selfless, selfish, impossible, and world-changing. Sapolsky agrees with the thesis that our lives have improved, this is a debate of nuance - “Anyone who says that our worst behaviors are inevitable knows too little about primates, including us.”] i109966612 |b1060006372716 |deva |g- |m |h11 |x1 |t1 |i6 |j70 |k170511 |n06-05-2023 16:43 |o- |a612.8 |rSAP Rating: 11/10 (yes, in the immortal words of Spinal Tap’s Nigel Tufnell, this goes up to eleven!) Key Learnings