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- Herausgeber: Crown House Publishing
- Kategorie: Bildung
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2008
A Thunk is a beguiling question about everyday things that stops you in your tracks and helps you start to look at the world in a whole new light. A thunk will shake up your templates, rattle your thought routines, and make you think about things differently! The ideal gift for possibly the most impossible person to buy for!
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Contents
Title Page
Dedication
Foreword: Thunks and the Brain
Instructions
The Thunks
Copyright
Foreword
Thunks and the Brain
Neurobiological science has identified that we carry all our thoughts, our feelings, even the core features of our personalities as hard-wired patterns of nerve cells called templates. These templates are stored in our brains, accessible by triggering the correct neurochemicals and delivering these to exactly the right nerve cells at exactly the right time. To change a template requires emotional commitment because the emotional part of our brains, the limbic system, controls not only learning but also attention. This is all achieved through the auspices of a neurochemical called dopamine, the main template-creating neurochemical in the brain.
Why is this relevant to this book of Thunks? Well, it is the templates that you have stored in your brain that this book is messing with. We all sit comfortably in our comfort zones, happy to feel and think and be the way we have always been. It’s called complacency. It’s probably the quickest way to get coronary artery disease, dissatisfied, and just plain bored than any other way I know. We sit there comfortably, complacently dying a little more each day because our templates are nicely formed by the interaction of our genetic potentials with our environment, and they say to us: It’s fine. Just be as you are. Don’t think differently. In fact, why bother thinking at all? Just accept you the way you are with all your misconceptions hard-wired into your brain. But experts in Alzheimer’s Disease and other degenerative brain conditions are now saying that workouts that involve a mental challenge might be better for the brain than those that are routine.
This book will shake up your templates. It will rattle your thought routines. It will force you to think about things differently. It will, if used correctly, make you feel uncomfortable. And you never know, it might stave off that sense of complacency and that might keep your brain working longer and better.
Dr Andrew Curran Consultant Neurologist Alder Hey Children’s Hospital
Instructions
1. Find a friend or family member
2. Ask a Thunk
3. Disagree with their answer*
4. Stand well back
5. Repeat
* For example if they say ‘Of course there is such thing as “The French”’ reply, ‘So, who are they then?’ They may respond that it is everyone living in France to which you reply ‘What about in a hundred years when they are all dead? Will it still be “The French” then or will it be a new “The French”?’ You get the idea…
THE THUNKS
Philosophy is the thinking science hasn’t got to yet…
1.Is there such a thing as ‘The French’?
2.
