Human Nature

Hippocampus is a part of the brain and is responsible for learning and memory actually increased in size when the Taxi drivers used that part of the brain to remember the routes of London streets. It has been found that their brain shrink back to normal when they stop using that part of the brain...

The level of happiness is part of our genetic makeup - we have a set level and cannot rise above or fall below it.

Some scientists envision the day that we can manipulate our happiness genes with precise nanoscale technologies. These mood bots will travel inside us to a part of the brain...

We humans have a certain nature to us that has been with us since the very start of our existence. We are more or less a slave to it. However, through practice it can be channelled into something positive. In this book, Robert Greene introduces us to the ...