brain

“I know with my thoughts, in any given situation, I will disregard the first Five or six thoughts I have on anything because I know my brain's like just trying to situate itself.”

“There's also a chemical Process, if you will, that, that happens when you do actually touch. All of a sudden, your brain is like, oh, that's being worked. Like, it's actually a chemical process that's occurring as well, not just the, a woo-woo that I'm touchin…”

“80% of the information from your vagus nerve, which innervates all of the organs for the most part, is actually coming from the organs to the brain.”

“When we get rid of visceral fat, when we get rid of belly fat, when we get rid of that stuff, what happens as a result is the brain starts to work better. You start to amplify and start to grow areas in your brain that are responsible for decision making and e…”

“The part of the brain that experiences social rejection is the same part of the brain where you experience physical pain, and so you will viscerally move away from any experience where you're the weird one.”

“You don't see with your eyes, you see with your brain based on priors, based on what's happened in the past. Your brain has been conditioned that that's the way reality works. So it's predicting a future that doesn't really exist.”

“Curiosity isn't triggered by knowing nothing. It's triggered by knowing almost enough. Like a partial answer. A question, but not the resolution. A setup. No payoff. The brain experiences this as a physical discomfort.”

“Like, your brain has to simulate whatever trait it is that you're focused on. Whether it is at other people or at yourself, your brain has to simulate that trait in order to understand it fully.”