How the Brain Makes Room for the Mind
What would you do with a brain if you had one?
Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, & Edgar Woolf, The Wizard of Oz
Dear friends & family,
The Life of Mind would be bleak without our trusted friend, the brain. If only we knew more about how we knew — and retained — so much (or so little)!
In earlier posts, I credit Nobel laureate Daniel Kahenman’s one-two punch for helping us understand how efficiently we remember. Well, forget that. As of this summer, there’s a new brain in town.
—Scott
If Memory Serves
Like a Seurat painting, some changes are best-ingested point by point. By trusting the big picture to take care of itself as the canvas fills up, we free our minds to focus on adding the newest dots.