Thinking
How do you translate all the sensory inputs from the world around you into meaningful information that you can use to guide you thinking? And how do you manage uncertainty and change when faced with challenge?
New Year, New You: Can You Change Your Personality?
There is quite a lot of debate around whether it’s possible to change your personality, or whether it is something that is pretty fixed across your lifetime. For a while now, science has been providing evidence to support the former - that your personality can change...
Decision Making is Not a Rational Activity
You probably think that you are a rational human being, or at least most of the time. That you make decisions based on a sensible weighing up of the pros and cons of the situation. That is what you’ve been practicing and improving all your working life isn’t it? But...
Optimism is Good Not Only for Your Brain but Also for Your Health and Longevity!
Do you look on the brighter side of life? Are you a glass half full or glass half empty kind of person? Are your spectacles tinted with rose? There are many phrases that people use to indicate where someone falls in terms of their outlook on life. Short-hand ways of...
How Do You Become Better at Seeing the Future?
There is much discussion these days about whether it is best to live in the moment, whether reminiscing is a good thing, or whether we should always have an eye to the future. However, in reality, we spend much of the day flicking between these different temporal...
The 7 Illusions of Knowing
Can you trust what you know? It might seem like a strange question, but what I mean is, do you think you have a clear insight into what you know and what you don’t know? Alternatively, are you being tricked by your brain into thinking that you know something well when...