April Words

 

 Just some quotes and words I feel like sharing ....

Your Second Brain

Have you ever heard people telling you to use your gut instinct?

Do you know that it is the most effective way to make a decision?

Embrace your second brain.

We think of intelligence as a deliberate, conscious activity based on the law of logic. However, much of our mental life is unconscious, based on processes alien to logic: gut feelings or intuition. We have intuition about friends, who we should hang with, sports, which detergent to buy, and so on. But can following your gut feelings lead to the best decision?

Research have proven gut feelings to be the best tools for making decision.
I know, it seems naive and silly to think so, but take a look at where it comes from.

Picture from Chapter 6. Limbic System, Amygdala. (Wright, 2015)

The unconscious mind comes form the amygdala, pointed in the red section of the brain picture.




In the brain, amygdala is a part of the limbic system, the place where communication between reasonings and feelings takes place.

Everything you see, smell, hear, taste and touch travels through your body in the form of electric signals. These signals pass from cell to cell until they reach their ultimate destination, your brain. They enter your brain at the base near spinal cord and must travel to your frontal lobe (behind your forehead) before you can think rationally about your experience. But first they travel through the limbic system, the place where you get your "gut reactions", those subjective feelings, about what is good and what is bad. (Bradberry & Greaves, 2009)

                Picture from the book of Emotional Intelligence 2.0. (Bradberry & Greaves, 2009)

Because the electric signal reach the limbic system before it reaches the rational part of the brain, "gut reactions" that we experience comes much more quickly than the logical pathway. And this is the part where people tend to miss. It comes in so fast that people do not realize its signal coming, and just decide that logical reasoning is the best way to go.

This gut feelings is hard to explain using logic. Say, in a simple form, you're contemplating between cheating your classmate in an exam and not cheating. Your limbic system sends a discomfort signal in your gut, telling that cheating is bad. However, due to how easily the gut reaction is to be ignored, your logic says cheating increases the chance of getting a good score in that exam. Therefore, you cheat.

When dealing with more complicated things, it gets harder to explain rationally. Especially in a situation where you have to explain yourself, and telling your friends or coworkers that you just don't feel like doing a thing leaves them bedazzled. When you tell them that your gut says "no", they would tell you that you don't make sense and say that gut is the place for food.  Blahhhh.

Now you know how it make sense, it comes from your brain as well.

On Piano

Hello, there!

I just got home from school and what a hectic day today! 

Anyway, I was in the bus on my home and there was this guy asking me about religion and stuffs. And at the end he kind of asked me why I don't have an accent. What is he referring to exactly? I never heard something like that before.

I just said to him I grew up watching American movies. haha

Also, I'd like to share you a video of me playing piano :) 

Thought you might enjoy that and have a relaxing evening!

Make sure to check out the video under this link below:

Kiss The Rain, River Flows In You, Reason

Treasure Yourself by Miranda Kerr

Time-Tested Beauty Tips

For attractive lips, speak word of kindness.

For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.

For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.

For beautiful hair, let a child run his

or her fingers through it once a day.

For poise, walk with the knowledge you'll never walk alone.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed,

revived, reclaimed, and redeemed: never throw out anyone.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one 

at the end of you arm.

As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands;

one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears,

the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes,

because that is the doorway to her heart, the place

where love resides.

The beauty of woman is not facial mole,

but true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul.

It is the caring that she lovingly gives,

the passion that she knows.

And the beauty of a woman, with passing years, only grows!