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6. The brain is hard-wired. We can rewire the brain and recruit other parts of the brain to compensate for the lost tissue. Blind people use the 'seeing' part of the brain to 👂🏼.
7. A conk on the head can cause amnesia. Traumatic 🧠 injury can cause the inability to recall past events. But, a brain injury doesn’t selectively impair autobiographical memory.
8. We know what will make us happy. We routinely overestimate how happy something will make us and the things we dread don’t make us as unhappy as expected.
9. We see the world as it is. We have a limited ability to pay attention and plenty of biases about what we expect or want to 👀. Our perception of the world is driven by expectations and interpretations.
10. Men are from Mars, women are from Venus. When it comes to perceiving the world, directing attention, learning new skills, encoding memories, communicating (women don’t speak more than men do), judge other people’s emotions (men aren’t inept at this)— men & 👩 have almost entirely overlapping abilities.
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