If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you would probably design something like a classroom.

Whether at work, home or school, everybody carries their brain around them, and if the organ suffers from a disorder, we carry the disorder around with us too.

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

What you do and learn in life physically changes what your brain looks like—it literally rewires it.

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

The distance between a gene and a behavior is of greatest interest to me. The relative contributions of nature and nurture, of nucleotide and nuclear family, are perpetually fascinating to me.

You don't have a work brain and a home brain. You have a single brain, one you carry with you wherever you go. Whatever affects you in one place is fully capable of affecting you at the other.