Emotions are conceptsConsider your brain for a moment. It’s sitting there in your skull, receiving all sorts of data from your eyes, ears, nose, skin, and mouth. This data is informative, but also ambiguous. It has to be interpreted.For example, it might think:What is that rectangular source of light with changing patterns of color? A window!<ol><li>Emotions are not hard-wired</li><li>Emotions are predictions</li><li>Although emotions are generated from within, they don’t stop there. We use emotions to construct our social reality.</li><li> There are no universal emotions across nations.</li><li>Emotions are not reactions to the world </li></ol>

We Create our Own Emotions 

Our brain uses concepts of emotions to create social reality, ain't that amazing?  

This post now available in German. The Theory of Constructed Emotion offers a radical new take on what emotions are, where they come from, and how they

How Emotions Are Made: The Theory of Constructed Emotion - Forte Labs

According to Maslow, we have five categories of needs: physiological, safety, love, esteem, and self-actualization.Higher needs in the hierarchy emerge when people feel they have sufficiently satisfied the previous need.1. Physiological: Basic physical needs like drinking when thirsty or eating when hungry.2. Safety: a safe environment.3. Love: Involves feeling loved and accepted in romantic relationships as well as ties to friends and family members.4. Esteem: the desire to feel good about ourselves.5. Self-Actualization: feeling fulfilled, feeling that we are living up to our potential.

Real Motivation Comes From Real Needs

Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory puts forward that people are motivated by five basic categories of needs.

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Explained

Plasticity is the ability of the brain to change. Capacity of neurons and neural networks in the brain to change their connections and behaviour in response to new information, sensory stimulation, development, damage or dysfunction.Of course, the brain is made up of about 100 billion neurons, each with thousands of synapses.The organisation of these connections encodes your beliefs, memories, habits, behaviours, and more. From birth, this organisation constantly changes – the exciting aspect of this is that we can purposefully change our neural organisation through directed effort.

What is Neuroplasticity? 

When new neurons are born from stem cells within the brain, which can then form new circuits. Neurogenesis surprisingly only happens in a few areas in the brain. One area is the hippocampus which needs a lot of new neurons because it encodes new memories. Another area is the olfactory bulb, which allows us to sense smells.Contrast this with the prefrontal cortex. Sitting at the front of your brain, the prefrontal cortex is what performs high level abstraction and ‘smart’ thinking. Interestingly, the prefrontal cortex is not capable of neurogenesis.

What is neurogenesis?

Neuroplasticity is one of those terms frequently bandied about, but what is the meaning of neuroplasticity? How does neuroplasticity work? Also…

Neuroscience 

How Neuroplasticity Changes the Brain

You can trigger the flow of happy chemical and increase the feeling of satisfaction in your brain.1. Serotonin :<ul><li>Make peace with something you can't control</li><li>Express pride in what you have done</li><li>Respect and take care of yourself </li><li>Find good in everything that surrounds you</li><li>Value the impact you already have</li></ul>2. Dopamine <ul><li>It makes the quest/chase feel good</li><li>Makes you seek more </li><li>Celebrate small victories, Take steps toward a new goal, Divide an unpleasant task into small parts</li></ul>3. OxytocinBuid trust, Be trustworthy, try self massage4. Endorphin Laugh, Cry, Excercise differently, stretch, Make exercise fun

How to increase happy neurochemicals naturally 

Offers simple activities that help you understand the roles of your "happy chemicals"--serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin, and endorphins. You'll also learn how to build new habits by rerouting the electricity in your brain to flow down a new pathway, making it even easier to trigger these happy chemicals and increase feelings of satisfaction when you need them most.

Self Improvement

Habits of a Happy Brain

enigmatic artifacts&nbsp;from the Viking ‘amulet factory’ found in Denmark, England and Russia. They date back 1000+ years, to the height of the Viking Age.“The images had always been understood in terms of what we know of Norse mythology,” says Deckers, an archaeologist at the Free University of Brussels.Deckers argues that the “Valkyrie” pendants represent actual women who played a central role in Viking festivals or ceremonies. Furthermore, they propose 'armed female figurines are part of a larger set of ritual objects that suggest gender roles in Viking-era Europe may have been complex'.

Rethink the mysterious artefacts

Archaeologists long assumed Valkyrie figurines represented Norse mythical beings. A new study of how and where they were made challenges that.

History 

Viking ‘amulet factory’ discovery forces rethink of enigmatic artifacts

3 lines of unrhymed poetry with 5-7-5 syllables,one the very first art of 'Economic use of language'.A haiku often features an image, or a pair of images, meant to depict the essence of a specific moment in time.The origins of haiku poems can be traced back as far as the 9th century.A haiku is considered to be more than a type of poem; it is a way of looking at the physical world and seeing something deeper, like the very nature of existence. It should leave the reader with a strong feeling or impression.&nbsp;The greatest haiku master was Matsuo Basho his haiku poems are still read world wide.

Haiku: Brief Japanese poetry

A Japanese verse form most often composed, in English versions, of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables. A haiku often features an…

Haiku (or hokku) | Poetry Foundation

five skills to <a href="https://www.grammarly.com/blog/how-to-learn-english/">improve your English </a>vocabulary<ol><li>reading: simply the best way!</li><li>listening: makes you think!</li><li> writing: makes you apply knowledge </li><li> watching: makes you feel the word around you </li><li> conversing: better representation of ideas﻿</li></ol>

Built a tremendous Vocab

Use these helpful tips and tricks to improve your English vocabulary so that you can communicate with confidence.

10 Ways to Improve Your English Vocabulary

simple Idea!Knowledge that doesn't make you change your behavior is useless. So, make sure that whatever you read has an impact on you in a positive way. Only then your life is enriched with knowledge.

Why too much knowledge is unnecessary?

Experience×Sensitivity if we wish to know the answer to any ethical question, we need to connect to our inner experiences and observe them with the utmost sensitivity.E and S build up one another in a never ending cycle.<ul><li>I cannot experience anything if I have no sensitivity for it. </li><li> I cannot develop sensitivity unless I undergo a variety of experiences.</li></ul>

Formula for Knowledge 

Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity’s future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods. Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. This may seem hard to accept, but, as Harari explains in his trademark style—thorough, yet riveting—famine, plague and war have been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges. For the first time ever, more people die from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists and criminals put together. The average American is a thousand times more likely to die from binging at McDonalds than from being blown up by Al Qaeda. What then will replace famine, plague, and war at the top of the human agenda? As the self-made gods of planet earth, what destinies will we set ourselves, and which quests will we undertake? Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century—from overcoming death to creating artificial life. It asks the fundamental questions: Where do we go from here? And how will we protect this fragile world from our own destructive powers? This is the next stage of evolution. This is Homo Deus. With the same insight and clarity that made Sapiens an international hit and a New York Times bestseller, Harari maps out our future.

Homo Deus

Spatial: ability to visualise the world in 3DNaturalist: sensitive to the nature Musical:ability to sense rhythm and sound and use this to create musiclogical:ability to solve mathematical problemsExistantial:ability to handle deep questions:the meaning of existenceInterpersonal: ability to look at things from different perspectivesBodily-Kinesthetic:mind and body co-ordination Linguistic:ability to use words effectively, right words at right timeIntrapersonal: ability to understand self

9 types of Intelligence 

Howard Gardner's brilliant conception of individual competence has changed the face of education in the twenty-three years since the publication of his classic work, Frames of Mind. Since then thousands of educators, parents, and researchers have explored the practical implications and applications of Multiple Intelligences theory--the powerfulnotion that there are separate human capacities, ranging from musical intelligence to the intelligence involved in self-understanding. The first decade of research on MI theory and practice was reported in the 1993 edition of Multiple Intelligences. This new edition covers all developments since then and stands as the most thorough and up-to-date account of MI available anywhere. Completely revised throughout, it features new material on global applications and on MI in the workplace, an assessment of MI practice in the current conservative educational climate, new evidence about brain functioning, and much more.

Multiple Intelligences

Our brains want everything to be comfortable but we don’t feel like working.Yes, everyone faces this dilemma but, you have the ultimate control!...trick your brain in a positive way use short words like 'Go', 'Just do it' or 'now' and launch yourself for the work for which you said 'tomorrow'

Trick to get things done

Your success, health, happiness, and wealth depend on how you make up your mind! One side of your mind has positive mental attitude and the other side has negative mental attitude. A positive attitude will naturally attract the good and the beautiful. The negative attitude will rob you of all that makes life worth living. By helping you recognize the important person that you are and making you believe that you can change your world, this book helps you discover and unleash the power of your mental attitude.

How Emotions Are Made: The Theory of Constructed Emotion - Forte Labs

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Explained

How Neuroplasticity Changes the Brain

Habits of a Happy Brain

Viking ‘amulet factory’ discovery forces rethink of enigmatic artifacts

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