Five Mental Tricks to Improve Your Life

  Neuroscientist David Eagleman claims that ‘if our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn’t be smart enough to understand them”. Indeed, this organ that weighs just over 1,300 grams and contains one hundred billion neurons is extremely complex. That’s because it has to facilitate our evolution and adaptation to environments that have become increasingly less simplistic. You might think that you’d like your brain to allow you to be a little happier than you are. However, the brain is an organ that seeks to facilitate our survival as a species. This can cause you to fall prey…