"REM sleep and non-REM, as I'll refer to it, have distinctly different roles in learning and unlearning, and they are responsible for learning and unlearning of distinctly different types of information."
Dr. Andrew Huberman
"Willpower and tenacity require that we intervene in our own default neural processes... and essentially govern ourselves to do or not do some particular thing."
Dr. Andrew Huberman
"Creativity has two parts. It has a creative discovery mode where you're kind of shuffling things around in a very relaxed way, and then creativity also has an absolutely linear implementation mode."
"Mind wandering is absolutely essential for creative insight."
"Your brain is involved in everything you do, how you think, how you feel, how you act, how you get along with other people."
"I mean, you can see the brain here in a sense, really confused."
"Inferential thinking is what's called when we're always drawing inferences from a series of observations."
"When you're learning to comprehend the language through input, you're building a little machine in your brain that takes the language as an input and turns it into pure understanding."
"Fluency can be achieved quickly with a strong foundation in input, allowing you to transition from pure thought to natural speech in the target language."
"I swear something's wrong with my brain; it's always looking for a pun."
"For human beings, thinking is where everything starts."
"The greatest threat to humanity right now is the way we think."
"The assumptions that I start with are flawed... and this is the core of the problem in people who are depressed and why logic doesn't work."
"Intuition is more powerful than logic will ever be."
"In the default mode is when we connect disparate ideas, we solve some of our most nagging problems, and we do something called 'autobiographical planning.'"
"Engaging the recesses of your mind is the most important thing. Then, the creative things happen."
"You have to categorize the world in order to act on it."
"When you learn a new fact, you make links, connections, synapses."
"Your brain desires to categorize and process information as fast as it possibly can."
"Your brain is constantly trying to find patterns in the world to help you make quicker, better decisions."
"It is that constant process of comparison—past, present, and future on millisecond time scales—that's what gives us the feeling that time is passing."
"Science literacy is not memorizing how your microwave oven works, it's about how your brain is wired for thought."
"That's why there's an automatic error monitoring system in our heads that registers every mess-up before it occurs."
"Our brains are so far above everybody else's that sometimes we overuse them when we overthink."
"Stories are how we understand the world, how we understand ourselves."
"One thing to see the problem... it's a whole nother thing to understand what's causing the problem."
"The brain does a great job making us feel as though our participation in the world around us is instantaneous."
"We are human beings bundles of impulses and heuristics and system one chattering away beneath the surface and be open to the possibility that that affects our behavior."
"The mind is like a computer program, and it loves repetition."
"If you keep checking, then you will remember, and that's how our brain works with a lot of repetition."
"I keep my thoughts stacked in my memory like they are on filing cards."
"It's hard because I think even I can lose it sometimes I very much wish that people would absorb thought processes from me I don't really care as much about the conclusions."
"Our mental models, formed through analogies, shape our perception and understanding."
"You have to set up systems that work with how your brain works."
"Worldview makes a difference in how you communicate, how we think."
"That's how hard it is to notice these things."
"You need a different way of thinking, a new perspective in a sense, and that's provided here by the diffuse mode."
"The first is just what I'll call the focus mode."
"You're often going back and forth between these two different modes."
"Just because you can't visualize something doesn't mean you can't still think about it visually."
"THE BRAIN IS TRYING TO SEE HOW THINGS FIT TOGETHER AND HOW SCENARIOS MAY PLAY OUT IN THE FUTURE."
"Readers also jump back from time to time. These regressions help you connect what you just read with something you read earlier."
"Every time you access a memory, it kind of rebuilds in a way that it has great potential to change."
"It really does it starts with yourself be aware that there are things probably happening in your brain that are not good."
"Your stress comes because of the way you think about those things."
"You're not going to change the way your brain functions but you can learn to redirect some of those bad habits."
"Creative people when they think of one idea, the probability that that will trigger an associated idea is higher."
"Our brains process reality in the same way: beginning, middle, and end."
"Your brain has to be hardwired to see patterns"
"Stories just form the applications in the mind."
"The brain is constantly having to process tons of information. So it is always looking for shortcuts."
"The less you think, the more effective you are."
"The will is the guider of the mind, the mind is the Builder."
"Retaining information becomes easier with mindful reading."
"Your mind is a story creator. It automatically creates connections between things, trying to figure out how the world works."
"Intelligence is much more than that. It's actually how you're able to process information in your brain depending on the situation that you're in."
"Predicting different possible futures is exactly what our own brains do constantly one of the foundational features of intelligence."
"The left hemisphere always is in the right... the most dramatic example of this is..."
"You're, in some sense, finding more solutions to that sub-problem."
"Learning what to forget, what to remember, and what to pay attention to."
"Your thoughts really make up what you think."
"Sometimes you got to think with your head sometimes you think with your heart sometimes you think with your gut"
"Your thoughts lead to your feelings, lead to your emotions, lead to your beliefs, lead to your actions."
"With understanding comes a better memory of things."
"Visualizing these people in your mind and visualizing these things folding out... turns your brain's radar on."
"There's nothing more important to people than meaning. Maturing individuals need to imbue complex, ambiguous, incomplete, and deceptive information with meaning so they're busy all the time making sense of what's happening around them."
"Your mind is always creating these ripples, these waves of disturbance."
"Sense making is just such an important part of that."
"Memory is not something you have, it's something you do... it's a verb."
"Most of the audible thoughts and visuals sound like our own thoughts."
"There are no subtractions and divisions in our mind, there is only addition and multiplication."
"It's reality that's been filtered to fit the Fidelity of our aperture of our human consciousness."
"Our brains explore the mental landscape through dreams."
"The human mind abhors this sort of open loop and it likes a closed loop."
"Assumptions are usually part of a sort of epistemic background that colors and informs your thinking about any situation."
"Our thoughts are just our thoughts not necessarily useful, not necessarily true, and when we have a mistaken thought we don't need to hold on to it, we can toss it aside, or better yet, correct it."
"Your brain wants to solve problems. If you ask a better question, you get a better answer."
"Your brain is powerful. Whatever you're doing with it when you're doing something else is what you remember."
"Your mind is the vessel that interprets reality."
"Meaning arises in the combination of representations in your head."
"We've got to start thinking about what we're thinking about."
"Emotions and cognitions are two facets of the same coin."
"Shows the point that he does have some sense of emotion associated with these numbers."
"Two different people presented with the exact same information can understand it the exact same way and reach different conclusions."
"The person's perception of detection apprehension triggers cognitive overload."
"If you don't have real-time thinking it's impossible to grow."
"You gotta have a bunch of memories at once so you can remember a bunch of things at the same time."
"What was the thought process that stuck in your mind the longest that was the hardest to let go of that when you let go of it life became more effortless?"
"I think it's a reasonable thing for people to do to receive interactions with the world and then make assumptions based on them."
"By thinking those thoughts, the brain, the neurons, because they are firing together then begin to actually physically connect to each other."
"Human beings can't just turn off their ability to have thoughts."
"Mind map is infinite, just like your brain's ability to think."
"Your mind is your best friend or your worst enemy."
"That's exactly right, so it turns out that the vast majority of what we think and do and believe is generated by parts of our brain that we have no acquaintance with, no access to at all."
"It's all just one epic yarn in your brain pretty much."
"Trust your instincts instead of just what you think it will be."
"Your thoughts sabotage your present reality."
"You cannot hold a thought in its perfect form in the neocortex without analysis."
"Different ways of thinking lead to very different ways of interacting with human beings."
"Feeling affects thinking and thinking affects feeling."
"The human imagination is often very closely tied to our experiences in the real world."
"It's just like, they try to fool yourself, does your mind."
"So the first thing, yes, is to gather awareness and I say gather as opposed to just being aware."
"There is a useful distinction to be made between things that we call illusory or hallucinations and things that we call real."
"You're not negotiating with an intelligent entity that can change its rules that's not why you battle the superego."
"Perception has to be a process of best guessing, combining sensory input with prior knowledge about the world."
"The key is to let your brain learn the way it learns best: By interacting with the world and finding patterns."
"Memories are just programs inside your head."
"The brain named itself... But the brain takes time to process information."
"We shall not cease our explorations and the end of all our exploring will be to return to where we began and know the place for the first time."
"Listen to your gut and your mind will catch up later."
"Our brain is like a simulator. You can reach it."
"But humans are storytelling animals you know it's the stories are how we structure information it's how we make sense of the world around us."
"Integration and differentiation are essential to human development."
"And maybe that's an important consequence or important aspect of our intelligence is conversation that we carry on with ourselves."
"Theta Rhythm is essential for the generation of internally driven sequences."
"Your brain kind of puts everything in short-term memory and then decides what's important enough to put in long-term memory afterwards..."
"That’s how we know it’s learning instead of just memorizing answers."
"People choose the facts they want, come up with an opinion, and then search for information to verify it."
"Your brain requires this longer time to make more associations and dredge up ideas that are in the nooks and crannies of your memory network."
"When you realize you're in a situation where you're likely to make a mistake, slow down and use System Two."
"Daydreaming is very important to your creative process."
"Not only that Andrea, it's like the way our brains work you have to like say something that trigger something else that trigger something else."
"Reasoning requires very little computation... But sensory motor skill requires enormous compute."
"One of the characteristics of system one: it is effortless, system two is effortful."
"The biggest problem that people have is where they should use slow thinking they use fast thinking."
"Having a language for how you make decisions is huge."
"Meditation practices may strengthen interoception, cognitive processes, and emotion regulation."
"The idea of symbolic neurons appeared... in 1895 or so with the paper that Sigmund Freud wrote but couldn't get published."
"The way the human brain works is once is an oddity, twice is a coincidence, three times is forever."
"why you specifically are probably dealing with hoc D thoughts"
"Your brain makes better leaps when you continue without especially creatively and finish it all the way to its conclusion."
"Intuition gives us things that we don't know how we know, and sometimes these confound our other modes of knowing."
"We're constantly sorting. We want to validate things that are valid in the ways that they're valid, and then we want to block the things that aren't valid, and try to create another thing that's more valid and validate that in the way that it's valid."
"System one operates automatically, whereas system two is consciously controlled."
"People make use of heuristics in moral reasoning just as they do in non-moral reasoning."
"Understanding how you think can clue you into the types of practices that might be best for you."
"Mind mapping is really the way your brain works."
"Attention is a filter that lets some information into our awareness but completely filters out of awareness a lot of other information."
"Your brain is constantly filtering out anything that's not immediately relevant to whatever your goal is in the moment."
"The nature of these processes, of course, are the representations that are important for generating our behavior and the computations that are being performed on those representations of our world."
"The sort of causal chain that your brain thinks about to explain what has happened are very short, surprisingly short."
"Learning to reason, going beyond system one, which is not going through a fixed number of steps in a feedforward neural net but being able to show reason."
"The way we think affects the way we feel."
"Most of our memory, most of our ability to actually recall things, that process by which those memories are stored, happens during sleep."
"Reading comprehension is the product of decoding and language comprehension."
"Skilled authors' writing is flexible, goal-directed, scaffolded by a rich source of cognitive processes and strategies."
"We're actually targeting cognitive process and cognitive content—how you think, rather than what you think."
"Creativity can't co-exist with logical problem solving; they just can't be mixed."
"The neuron slows down; it can't do what it normally wants to do, which is to communicate signals to other neurons in your brain that are all connected to a thought or a memory or a sensation."
"There are three main parts to the learning process: reception, conceptualization, and emotion."
"When you're in your fast mode of thinking, you have this unconscious that could be worming away at a problem you're trying to solve."
"Inference is making assumptions about mental processes that can't be directly observed."
"Cognitive is thinking, how we problem-solve, how we do things."
"Life is filled with abstractions, and the way we make heads or tails of it is through intuition."
"There's two different kinds of work that we do engage in during the day, two distinct mental processes which I'm gonna call blue work and red work."
"Short-term memory, also known as working memory, refers to the process of holding all the information that you're consciously aware of."
"We actually learn by making causal inferences from events that are detected."
"Noticing when the mind flits off... can give you some control over what happens next."
"You have 60 to 80 thousand thoughts a day."
"Thinking is fun, it's not drudgery."
"We think in two ways: a fast way and a slow way."
"You are mentally rehearsing and you are actually creating neural pathways in your mind."
"The cognitive approach is very good at telling us how something is happening, but not necessarily the why."
"You are designed to stand outside yourself and observe your own thinking, feeling, and choosing."
"Selective filtering... selective attention... value tagging: these are the processes your brain uses to notice and grasp opportunities."
"The creative part of your mind starts having to come up with creative questions."
"The brain seeks to understand the patterns around it and solve the puzzles that it encounters."
"Intelligence is all about information processing."
"You will remember faster than you learn."
"When you're dealing with problems in life that have to do with logic, that's when you use your brain to figure it out."
"This is how humans learn language... we synthesize them in our brain, we manipulate objects, we change our own viewpoint, and that's how we learn everything we know about the world."
"The more you use system 1, the more clever you are."
"It's broadly recognized that people have two systems of thought which are artfully named system 1 and system 2."
"We think in sequence; we don't think out of sequence."