I always had a problem with intelligence because, in my first grade, the teacher said that only boys are intelligent. The girls are nerds who study all the time. And because of this, girls are sometimes better than boys. For me,…

The book “Idiot Brain: what your head is really up to,” written by the neuroscientist Dean Burnett, uses humor and layman’s terms for somebody who, like me, enjoys learning more about the brain. But everything Dean Burnett writes is backed up…

When I became interested in neuroscience, I bought the book written by Dr. Rahul Jandial, “Life Lessons from a brain surgeon.” I was surprised to learn that in the second year of Medical University, the students take an exam called Step…

  “The Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung argued that when we fall in love with someone, what we really fall in love with are the characteristics that are in us, but that, for whatever reason, we cannot access.   This is what…

“WANT-TO goals reflect a person’s genuine interest and values (they’re “WHY”). We pursue these kinds of goals because of personal enjoyment (intrinsec interest), because of the inherent importance of the goal (identified interest), or because the goal has been assimilated into…

Last year, I thought I had Mindfulness figured out. It was 2011 when I learned for the first time about the concept of Mindfulness in Andy Puddicombe’s book, and I was hooked. In my quest to understand and practice it, I…

I met Rick Rubin for the first time while I was watching “The shop”, specifically the episode about hip hop artists. I noticed right away his calm presence, the luminosity in his eyes. Rick was present, and he exuded enlightenment.  Only when…

Thirteen years after the book “EVOLVE YOUR BRAIN” was published for the first time, I started reading it. Thus, I became fascinated by Joe Dispenza’s idea that we are what we are thinking: “What we repeatedly think about and where we focus our…