SIX at 6: Generic Machinery, Becoming More Aggressive, The Idea Muscle, The Same Person Throughout, Morning Pages, and Always Practicing (opens in new tab)

The Generic Mechanisms Of Nearly Everything The neuroscientist Andrew Huberman often talks about how many systems and processes in the brain and body are “generic,” meaning they are multi-purpose: the same underlying machinery is involved in many different contexts and situations. Reading a book engages the same attention-narrowing and sensory-filtering circuitry used when watching a […]