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  • Old Brain vs New Brain – Unknown facts

    Our limbic part of the brain has been inherited from apes and is known as the “Old Brain”.This understands only symbols & signals and has no power for rational thinking.

    A couple of noteworthy components are HippoCampus & Amygdala.

    Whereas hippocampus stores long term emotional memory for later recall and reflection , Amygdala acts as the thermometer of feelings.

    The rational brain is a later addition and helps in rational thinking and hence known as “New Brain”.This is what separates humans from other animals.

    The quirky part is that both “Old & “New brain” work in the opposite direction. A high emotional arousal leading to high limbic activity results in low rational state and vice versa.

    Knowing these quirks can help us focus on top performance.

  • Perception vs Logic – Which dominates?

    In the book “The Free Mind” , Ed De Bono talks about perception as the dominant force behind influencing our thoughts.

    The Harvard stalwart David Perkins goes the distance in saying that 90% of errors made by us in thoughts is due to perceptions and the rest due to logic.

    This goes a long way in proving that school education that teaches us to analyse and use logic falls flat in most practical scenarios wherein a false judgement is made due to perception aka the limbic Brain.

    This makes is necessary to make thinking a central focus of all modern day educational curriculum.