Gunjan

“human beings tend to blindly trust their perception, to the point of considering it to be shared by everyone.”
― Albert Moukheiber, Your Brain Is Playing Tricks On You: How the Brain Shapes Opinions and Perceptions

“Gaslighting8 is another form of cognitive hijacking which leans on memory manipulation: it consists in making a victim doubt their memory or their actual mental health by presenting some facts in a truncated manner, editing a few elements of the original memory, telling them they’ve made it all up, or that they’re losing their mind. This form of emotional abuse can take many shapes.”
― Albert Moukheiber, Your Brain Is Playing Tricks On You: How the Brain Shapes Opinions and Perceptions

“the world constantly reflects a multitude of signals, and we reduce their ambiguity by choosing what we want to see. Thus, little by little, our interpretation of the world shapes us psychologically, culturally and socially.”
― Albert Moukheiber, Your Brain Is Playing Tricks On You: How the Brain Shapes Opinions and Perceptions

“Contrary to popular belief, we do not have a creative right brain and an analytical left brain, nor do we have an artistic right brain and a mathematical left brain.”
― Albert Moukheiber, Your Brain Is Playing Tricks On You: How the Brain Shapes Opinions and Perceptions