by Anastasia on December 29, 2010
According to Socrates, “An unexamined life is not worth living.” It is this time again when we look back at the year gone by to see what we can learn from it. All the exciting happenings in neuroscience and the explorations of the brain, communication and social networks have rocked this Brain Alchemist’s boat, or, [...]
by Anastasia on December 17, 2010
We get more engaged when our buttons are pushed. It’s no surprise that negative information captivates the brain and stirs emotions, you have to look no further than our news channels and newspapers. Negativity keeps the audience captive, in part, because the brain is wired to be more sensitive to negativity. Negative emotions are so [...]
by Anastasia on December 8, 2010
Some time ago I watched a TED presentation by Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of “Eat, Pray, Love” on nurturing creativity. Talking about the pressures of creative work, felt especially strongly after a hugely successful book, Elizabeth Gilbert described how writers and poets had relied for centuries on their creative genius, or muse, to keep them inspired [...]