Every brain is wired differently from every other brain, and learns in ways unique to that wiring.

Any education system that only memorizes things creates robots and will never produce Nobel laureates. Any education system that only emphasizes improvisation will get a bunch of people who may think they are creative, but they are functionally illiterate.

The brain doesn't pay attention to boring things.

The brain doesn't care about change. As the world's most sophisticated survival organ, the brain cares about loss.

We are human because we can fantasize.

There are estimates that we daily walked for 10 - 20 kilometers for hundreds of thousands of years. The world's best problem solving machinery grew up under conditions of consistent, strenuous physical activity. It makes sense that when we don't recreate the environments in which the organ was forged, we get a loss of function. And that when we do restore those environments, we get that function back. The effects of aerobic exercise on executive function skills is a powerful empirical example of this idea.

Empathy works so well because it does not require a solution. It requires only understanding.