What is interesting and ironic is that the more creative and intelligent the individual, the more difficult it can be to dissuade them from their anger response, since they are better at finding seemingly meaningful connections in what are in fact non-causal relationships, as well as creating internally consistent arguments that support their erroneous position, thus protecting them from uncertainty of ignorance.
—Beau Lotto, Deviate, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2018
(…) to truly uncover your assumptions and replace if not expand them with new ones, you must constantly step into an emotionally challenging place and experience difference… actively! By challenge, what we really mean when we say this is that an experience or environment doesn’t match our assumptions (expectations).
—Beau Lotto, Deviate, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2018
The basic key to their findings whether the event matches expectations. What is more, the expectation of an event matching your expectation alters your level of happiness in anticipation of the event itself… that is, until you actually experience it. It’s in the anticipation of an event that happiness itself often lives. This is because dopamine — a neurotransmitter in the brain correlated with positive feelings, among many other things — spikes in anticipation of a positive event, and then decreases during the event itself.
—Beau Lotto, Deviate, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2018
(Trata-se de um estudo do University College London, sobre a previsão se alguém se vai sentir feliz ou não numa determinada situação.)
(…) if you want to understand yourself, sometimes the best answer exists in another person. Studies have shown that other people can be better at predicting our behaviour — at usefully predicting us — than ourselves are.
—Beau Lotto, Deviate, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2018
The importance of interconnectedness is reflected in the brain itself. In a creatively engaged mind there are higher levels of cortical activity… that is, more ideas generating heat both during moments of “inspiration” and in general. This is because patterns become more widely distributed and thus more connected and interactive. Inhibition also goes down, which means the voice in your mind that loves to shout the Physics of No speaks less often and less loudly. In case you were wondering some psychedelic drugs like those found in “magic mushrooms” have a similar effect on the brain.
—Beau Lotto, Deviate, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2018