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hello can you see me can you see me can
you hear me ah there you are my name is
William this is my sign name you know
when you walk into a room and there’s
lots of people everywhere you’re not
quite sure what to do and how to fit in
we bump into someone and then we respond
automatically it might be positive or
nervous or scared but often it’s an
instant reaction we get used to these
patterns of reacting sometimes we get
trapped in the pattern we assume people
think a certain way or we think that we
need to act a certain way and just like
bumping into an old or a new friend we
bump into our assumptions as well like
thinking that all the speakers have to
be up here on the stage I think about
the stories that every one of you has
inside the people you know who you love
and who love you I think about the
thousand TEDx stories that are sitting
in this audience right now stories of
doing good and becoming a better person
stories of doing maybe not so good and
learning from it we expect that those
who do good are the ones who win and
those who do bad are the ones who lose
but to me it seems a bit more complex
than that but next time you bump into
someone or maybe sit down next to
someone at a TEDx conference see if you
can catch yourself catch your thoughts
catch your assumptions how easy is it
for you to zoom out on your thinking
Thank You William our minds are
extraordinary things we’d like to zoom
in on some of the intricacies of the
human mind can we really become aware of
our personal assumptions and our habits
of thought and can we really consciously
design them first some Anatomy the
spinal cord is a two-way Highway between
the brain and the body together the
brain and the spinal cord make up our
central nervous system over 300 million
years old the part of the brain called
the truant brain or the reptilian brain
is a part of the brain that’s
responsible for keeping us awake and
alert for fight flight and freeze 100
million years later the next part of the
human brains evolution is the limbic
brain this is the part of the brain
responsible for creating our emotions
our memory and our connection to others
inspired by the work of Dan Siegel
we’d like to define the mind as an
emergent property that helps regulate
information and energy flow within
bodies and between people this
regulation this integration happens here
in the prefrontal cortex growing after
birth is formed by the experiences that
we have giving us awareness allowing us
to think and reflect managing our
emotions regulating information flow and
integrating all regions
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these regions do not work separately
however in fact they are an integrated
highway of specialized neurons and
interconnected grid if you will a
function and meaning consider this our
life experience is what creates our
person your pathways no two brains are
wired the same way if no two brains are
wired the same way then why do we feel
connected to others based on the work of
dr. Fiona curve is because of a
beautiful concoction of mirror neurons
bonding chemicals through shared touch
and experiences we allied out with other
people’s brains this connect Beauty is
intricate and vital for the social
architecture of humanity we rely on each
other for our sense of belonging and
though we are alone in our minds we are
connected to each other physically
through our shared neural nets
experience and in this way we are never
truly alone
Oh
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you
hello can you see me can you see me can
you hear me ah there you are my name is
William this is my sign name you know
when you walk into a room and there’s
lots of people everywhere you’re not
quite sure what to do and how to fit in
we bump into someone and then we respond
automatically it might be positive or
nervous or scared but often it’s an
instant reaction we get used to these
patterns of reacting sometimes we get
trapped in the pattern we assume people
think a certain way or we think that we
need to act a certain way and just like
bumping into an old or a new friend we
bump into our assumptions as well like
thinking that all the speakers have to
be up here on the stage I think about
the stories that every one of you has
inside the people you know who you love
and who love you I think about the
thousand TEDx stories that are sitting
in this audience right now stories of
doing good and becoming a better person
stories of doing maybe not so good and
learning from it we expect that those
who do good are the ones who win and
those who do bad are the ones who lose
but to me it seems a bit more complex
than that but next time you bump into
someone or maybe sit down next to
someone at a TEDx conference see if you
can catch yourself catch your thoughts
catch your assumptions how easy is it
for you to zoom out on your thinking
Thank You William our minds are
extraordinary things we’d like to zoom
in on some of the intricacies of the
human mind can we really become aware of
our personal assumptions and our habits
of thought and can we really consciously
design them first some Anatomy the
spinal cord is a two-way Highway between
the brain and the body together the
brain and the spinal cord make up our
central nervous system over 300 million
years old the part of the brain called
the truant brain or the reptilian brain
is a part of the brain that’s
responsible for keeping us awake and
alert for fight flight and freeze 100
million years later the next part of the
human brains evolution is the limbic
brain this is the part of the brain
responsible for creating our emotions
our memory and our connection to others
inspired by the work of Dan Siegel
we’d like to define the mind as an
emergent property that helps regulate
information and energy flow within
bodies and between people this
regulation this integration happens here
in the prefrontal cortex growing after
birth is formed by the experiences that
we have giving us awareness allowing us
to think and reflect managing our
emotions regulating information flow and
integrating all regions
[Music]
these regions do not work separately
however in fact they are an integrated
highway of specialized neurons and
interconnected grid if you will a
function and meaning consider this our
life experience is what creates our
person your pathways no two brains are
wired the same way if no two brains are
wired the same way then why do we feel
connected to others based on the work of
dr. Fiona curve is because of a
beautiful concoction of mirror neurons
bonding chemicals through shared touch
and experiences we allied out with other
people’s brains this connect Beauty is
intricate and vital for the social
architecture of humanity we rely on each
other for our sense of belonging and
though we are alone in our minds we are
connected to each other physically
through our shared neural nets
experience and in this way we are never
truly alone
Oh
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[Applause]
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you
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