That Stranger In The Mirror- Neuroscience For Everyone

That Stranger In The Mirror: Neuroscience For Everyone, available at $34.99, has an average rating of 3.9, with 45 lectures, based on 62 reviews, and has 2744 subscribers.

You will learn about Identify different parts of our brain, and how they correspond to different voices in our head Understand primary motivations, including complex urges such as craving fairness and independence Seek the state of flow, a mental state of intense concentration and joy, brought on by work Classify personalities into 32 categories using the Big Five Personality Traits Understand how memory works, why it is reconstructive and associative This course is ideal for individuals who are Yep! Anyone curious to understand how our minds work or Yep! Anyone curious to gain a practical applied understanding of neuroscience and psychology It is particularly useful for Yep! Anyone curious to understand how our minds work or Yep! Anyone curious to gain a practical applied understanding of neuroscience and psychology.

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Summary

Title: That Stranger In The Mirror: Neuroscience For Everyone

Price: $34.99

Average Rating: 3.9

Number of Lectures: 45

Number of Published Lectures: 45

Number of Curriculum Items: 45

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 45

Original Price: $89.99

Quality Status: approved

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What You Will Learn

Identify different parts of our brain, and how they correspond to different voices in our head

Understand primary motivations, including complex urges such as craving fairness and independence

Seek the state of flow, a mental state of intense concentration and joy, brought on by work

Classify personalities into 32 categories using the Big Five Personality Traits

Understand how memory works, why it is reconstructive and associative

Who Should Attend

Yep! Anyone curious to understand how our minds work

Yep! Anyone curious to gain a practical applied understanding of neuroscience and psychology

Target Audiences

Yep! Anyone curious to understand how our minds work

Yep! Anyone curious to gain a practical applied understanding of neuroscience and psychology

This is a practical applied course in Neuroscience and Psychology, that’s about knowing yourself, knowing others, and knowing stuff.

Let’s parse that.

Knowing Yourself: The course presents different parts of our brains – such as the prefrontal cortex, the limbic system, basal ganglia – and how these brain systems drive our behaviour and motivation.

Knowing Others:We will examine one set of personality traits, known as the OCEAN traits or Big-Five traits, and examine 32 different personality types that follow from these.

Knowing Stuff:?How memories are formed, how this process is influenced by sleep, and how different learning styles interact with memory and understanding.

Here’s what this course includes:

Basics of Neuroscience: Different brain systems – the prefrontal cortex as center of our attention; the limbic system which governs our towards/away responses; basal ganglia that manage autopilot routines and habits; the anterior cingulate which craves novelty; the ventrolateral prefrontal which manages the most difficult function of conscious thought – saying No.?

Free Will and Free Won’t:?Conscious thought consists of 5 primary functions: inhibiting, deciding, recalling, understanding and memorising. See why inhibiting is so hard, why decision fatigue makes us procrastinate, and why we should talk in bullets, think in trees, and decide in pairs

?Motivations:?Our brain has surprisingly complex urges – including cravings for independence, fairness, curiosity, loyalty and vengeance. These motivations make us behave the way we do. We look at the 16 Primary Urges, Maslow’s Hierarchy, and the Autonomy-Mastery-Purpose framework of what drives us.

Seeking Flow:?Perhaps the most important concept in this course, flow refers to a state of intense focus, of oneness with one’s work. This state sounds almost magical – and it is, but its also real, and backed by hard science. People who get addicted to this state experience a neurochemical high, and what’s more, are more successful than those who work for rewards such as money.

The Big Five Personality Traits:?Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism. Collectively, these OCEAN traits can be used to classify personalities into 32 types, and give us real insights into how people are likely to think and behave.

Memory: Every experience, every sensation triggers a pattern of neuron firings in our brain – this pattern is unique and is a memory. See how this pattern is reconstructive, and associative.

Sleep:?Sleep is essential for creativity, memory consolidation, and also just for staying happy. Understand why not getting enough sleep makes us grumpy (it has to do with our limbic alertness to threats being greater than that to rewards!)

Learning:?Our brains are wired to very efficiently process spatial stimuli (maps, trees), visual stimuli?(images) and auditory stimuli (songs). THink about how much information is packed into a song – tune, beat, lyrics, and these days, visuals. We are not quite so good with numbers or blocks of text – and this is a big part of information overload these days.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: You, This Course and Us

Lecture 1: You, This Course and Us

Chapter 2: Which voice wins

Lecture 1: Knowing Yourself

Lecture 2: The Voices In Our Heads

Lecture 3: Novelty and Dr No

Lecture 4: The Squeaky Wheel

Chapter 3: Conscious_Thought_Introduced

Lecture 1: Why Our Minds Like To Wander

Lecture 2: Five Elements Of Conscious Thought

Lecture 3: Walking, Talking And Chewing Gum

Lecture 4: When Thought And Action Merge

Lecture 5: Distractions Make Me Dumber

Chapter 4: Rewards_And_Motivation

Lecture 1: Our Motivations

Lecture 2: Caveman Brain, Complex Urges

Lecture 3: Sweet 16 That Make Us Tick

Lecture 4: Auftragstaktik, And A Band Of Brothers

Chapter 5: Primary_Motivations

Lecture 1: Motivations Double-Clicked

Lecture 2: The Strength Of The Wolf Is The Pack

Lecture 3: Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death

Lecture 4: Curiosity Belled The Cat

Lecture 5: Peace And Quiet

Lecture 6: Self-Transcendance And Self-Actualisation

Chapter 6: Flow

Lecture 1: Its Magical, Yet Real

Lecture 2: A Fine Balance

Chapter 7: Big_Five

Lecture 1: Knowing Others – Classification and Categorisation

Lecture 2: The Big Five Personality Traits

Lecture 3: Open Sesame

Lecture 4: Mirror Mirror On The Wall

Chapter 8: Types

Lecture 1: Now, Where Have I Seen You Before?

Lecture 2: Different Strokes For Different Folks

Lecture 3: Death Of A (Used Car) Salesman

Lecture 4: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Chapter 9: Memory

Lecture 1: Knowing Stuff

Lecture 2: Memories Are Like Snowflakes

Lecture 3: You Never Cross The Same River Twice

Lecture 4: Whats In A Name?

Lecture 5: Learning Oughta Be Active

Lecture 6: Sleep And Memory

Chapter 10: Examples

Lecture 1: Some Ideas For You To Consider

Lecture 2: Try Being A Morning Person – Why

Lecture 3: Try Being A Morning Person – How

Lecture 4: Mentors Dont Grow On Trees

Lecture 5: Why Stephen Curry Loves His Naps

Lecture 6: Talk In Bullets

Lecture 7: Think In Trees

Lecture 8: Choose In Pairs

Lecture 9: Hard Talk

Instructors

Loony Corn
An ex-Google, Stanford and Flipkart team

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2 stars: 3 votes

3 stars: 5 votes

4 stars: 17 votes

5 stars: 35 votes

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