Sheryl Hill

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“Social reality is an incredible gift. You can simply make stuff up, like a meme or a tradition or a law, and if other people treat it as real, it becomes real. Our social world is a buffer we build around the physical world. The author Lynda Barry writes, “We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.”
― Lisa Feldman Barrett, Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain

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“Brains of higher complexity can remember more. A brain doesn’t store memories like files in a computer—it reconstructs them on demand with electricity and swirling chemicals. We call this process remembering but it’s really assembling.”
― Lisa Feldman Barrett, Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain

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“Sometimes we're responsible for things not because they're our fault, but because we're the only ones who can change them.”
― Lisa Feldman Barrett, Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain

tags: brains, self-accountability

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“The human capacity for mischief, misadventure and downright idiocy is apparently a trait that progress cannot eradicate.”
― Thomas Morris, The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth: And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine

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“You can challenge the beliefs that you were swaddled in as a child. You can change your own niche. Your actions today become your brain’s predictions for tomorrow, and those predictions automatically drive your future actions. Therefore, you have some freedom to hone your predictions in new directions, and you have some responsibility for the results.”
― Lisa Feldman Barrett, Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain

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