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Daryl Bambic

A Senior Moment: Wisdom of the Aged? - Wisdom Research | The University of Chicago - 0 views

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senior wisdom brain

shared by Daryl Bambic on 24 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • they agree that our brains have two complementary operating systems.
  • Automatic or Instinctual Brain
  • decision making
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  • handles most of our emotions and “no brainer” decisions.
  • eflective or Analytical Brain, is a more aware thought process that requires effort. It is the purposeful, attentive check to the impulses of System
  • ery egocentric view
  • First, it was designed to protect us from danger and it frequently overreacts without thinking with unnecessary fear or anxiety.
  • reates stories to explain informatio
  • e automatic pilot brain does a good job of steering the ship of self.
  • umps to conclusions
  • strong attachments to money, material objects, and people that it is reluctant to let go of.
  • It takes the interaction of both System 1 and System 2 to achieve wisdom. It is necessary for people to train themselves to recognize when System 1 is overreacting, jumping to conclusions, or giving in to selfish impulses, and to call upon System 2
  • “Why?”
  • owered dopamine levels might give us time to stop and think.
  • ast experience of similar patterns
  • willing to educate ourselves as new information becomes available
  • Daryl Bambic on 24 Oct 13
     
    Two important ideas here: 1- the senior brain has less dopamine therefore less emotionally charged thinking and 2- it has more experience with pattern recognition and therefore can make better estimations and predictions.
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