The Superhuman Power Of The Brain

• We don't have one brain in our head—we have three. We started with a “lizard brain” to keep us breathing, then added a brain like a cat’s, and then topped those with the thin layer of Jell-O known as the cortex—the third, and powe...

There’s an extreme positivity bias toward the future: we think that future events are more important to our identity than the past events.

But we have to temper our expectations and keep in mind that no matter the degree in which we can dream up detailed scenes of things yet to come,

The Cognitive Revolution represents the critical mutation that launched our species' dominance. This evolutionary leap enabled:

• Flexible cooperation with unprecedented numbers of strangers
• Creation and belief in shared imagined realities like gods, nations, and...