That Stranger In The Mirror: Neuroscience For Everyone

🌟 That Stranger In The Mirror: Neuroscience For Everyone 🌟

Course Headline: Knowing Yourself, Knowing Others, Knowing Stuff

📖 Course Description:

This practical applied course in Neuroscience and Psychology is designed to give you a window into the human brain. It's about understanding ourselves and others, and the 'stuff' that makes up our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.

What You Will Learn:

• Knowing Yourself: Dive into the intricate world of your own mind by exploring different parts of your brain:

  1. The prefrontal cortex, the command center for attention, decision making, and saying No.
  2. The limbic system, which dictates our responses to what we find rewarding or threatening.
  3. The basal ganglia, the autopilot that manages your daily routines and habits.
  4. The anterior cingulate, the part of your brain that craves novelty and new experiences.
  5. The ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, which helps you to say No to impulses.

• Knowing Others: Understand human behavior by examining the OCEAN traits, also known as the Big Five personality traits, and discover how they shape 32 distinct personality types. This will give you insight into why people act the way they do.

• Knowing Stuff: Learn about the science of memory, how it's formed, and how sleep, along with different learning styles, affect our ability to retain information and experience true understanding.

Course Highlights:

• Basics of Neuroscience: Uncover the functions of key brain regions and how they interact to govern our conscious and unconscious thoughts and actions.

• Free Will and Free Won't: Explore the five primary functions of conscious thought and why inhibiting, deciding, recalling, understanding, and memorising can be so challenging.

• Motivations: Delve into the 16 Primary Urges that drive our behavior, including independence, fairness, curiosity, loyalty, and vengeance, and how they stack up in Maslow's Hierarchy and the Autonomy-Mastery-Purpose framework.

• Seeking Flow: Discover the state of flow, a scientifically backed concept that leads to a neurochemical high and increased success, and how to achieve it in your daily life.

• The Big Five Personality Traits: Learn about the OCEAN traits and how they can be used to classify personalities into 32 types, giving you a framework to understand different behaviors and thought patterns.

• Memory: Grasp the concept of memories as unique neuron firing patterns and understand their reconstructive and associative nature.

• Sleep: Recognize the critical role of sleep for creativity, memory consolidation, and overall happiness, and how a lack of it can make us grumpier due to altered limbic alertness.

• Learning: Examine the ways in which our brains process different types of information most efficiently, and how this can impact your learning experience and help you overcome information overload.

By the end of this course, you'll have a deeper understanding of the human brain, its functions, and its quirks. You'll be better equipped to navigate the complexities of human behavior, both in yourself and others, and you'll have a wealth of knowledge at your fingertips to apply these concepts to real-world situations. 🎓

Join us on this journey into the fascinating world of neuroscience and unlock the mysteries of 'That Stranger In The Mirror'. Enroll now and take the first step towards a deeper understanding of yourself and those around you! 🚀