Episode 6

Thinking Tools Newsletter Episode 6

1. Fact: Your Body Uses Your Brain to Regulate Your Body 

2. Tip: How to Change A Habit

3. Book: “A Thousand Brains,” by Jeff Hawkins (2021)

4. Quote: Frans de Waal on a human paradox

5. Thoughts: Local news needs you, national news is a distraction

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References: 

1. Billman, G. E. (2020). Homeostasis: the underappreciated and far too often ignored central organizing principle of physiology. Frontiers in physiology, 11, 200.  https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2020.00200/full   

2. Craig, A. D. (2016). Interoception and Emotion. In Handbook of Emotions (4th ed., pp. 215–234). essay, Guilford Press.   

3. Damasio, A. (2019). The strange order of things: Life, feeling, and the making of cultures. Vintage.  

4. Duhigg, C. (2012). The power of habit: Why we do what we do in life and business (Vol. 34, No. 10). Random House.  

5. Hawkins J (2021) A thousand brains: a new theory of intelligence, 1st edn. Basic Books, New York  

6. Hawkins Describing his “Thousand Brains” theory: https://youtu.be/Zz6CcboMJaw 

Books Mentioned: 

Duhigg, C. (2012). The power of habit: Why we do what we do in life and business (Vol. 34, No. 10). Random House. https://www.amazon.com/Power-Habit-What-Life-Business/dp/081298160X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1640283010&sr=8-1

Hawkins J (2021) A thousand brains: a new theory of intelligence, 1st edn. Basic Books, New York https://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Brains-New-Theory-Intelligence/dp/1541675819/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1640283038&sr=8-1   

De Waal, F. (2016). Are we smart enough to know how smart animals are?. WW Norton & Company. https://www.amazon.com/Are-Smart-Enough-Know-Animals/dp/0393353664/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1640283079&sr=8-1    

My article about local vs national news: https://biologyandlife.com/2020/11/19/local-news-more-important/

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