Day In, Day Out

This blog has been my place since 2008. Scrolling back the years, it is crazy how things have changed. A 19 years old me was an innocent one. She shared with the world everything that was in her head - mindless. The language was absurd and the point of writing was ridiculous.  "I think throughout the years, I have changed a lot. I have tamed my tongue, at least. Have you too changed? What were you like before?" "I was a lazy freak. Glad that you've changed me." "I don't change you and you don't change for me. You are born responsible. Even if you are married to any other woman in the world, you'll be a better person. For you are a responsible man."  I change. My husband change. People change. Why? For change is the only thing constant in life. But when we change, it is not people or a particular person that change us. It takes us to change us. It takes us to rewire the connection we have already had in our brain; w...

source "Are you listening to me?" "Sh. Do not disturb me. I'm in process of becoming a better learner. Where was I just now?" Articles and researches across the printed as well as digital media have identified the virtues of daydreaming particularly in the area of: self-awareness, creative incubation, improvisation and evaluation, memory consolidation, autobiographical planning, goal-driven thought, future planning, retrieval of deeply personal memories, reflective consideration of the meaning of events and experiences, simulating the perspective of another person, evaluating the implications of self and others' emotional reactions, moral reasoning and reflective compassion [and the list goes on and on and on]. ( source ) Prior to the long list of virtues of daydreaming, scholars come up with a conclusion that daydreaming is cognitively good and healthy .  source The intriguing fact staggers me as I was brought up and taught...

I was reading the Brain Rules by John Medina when I came across the name, Phineas Gage. The man is famous for his occupational injury which was bad enough but glad that it didn't kill him. The neuroscientists are glad that he didn't die because of the injury but his family might have wished the total opposite. September 13, 1848, Gage set an explosive charge in the hole of a rock using a tamping iron (a 3 foot rod about an inch in diameter). Unfortunately, the charge blew the rod into his head and destroyed most of his prefrontal context. The tragedy makes him be the most famous brain-injury survivor! Many (during his day) believed that he was lucky to survive but their belief changed as year passed. This due to the reality that though he survived, he was a changed man. "Phineas Gage had a hole in his head, and ev'ryone knew that he oughta be dead. Was it fate or blind luck, though it never came clear, kept keepin' on year after year…" The trag...

The brain of the dyslexic :) Source Source Source Oh Gosh! I'm in love.