Part One
Recent Discoveries About the Brain That Change Everything
Today’s revolutionary advances in neuroscience will rival the discoveries of Copernicus, Galileo and Darwin.
PAUL CHURCHLAND (1996)
Ten years ago I became fascinated by the sealed magic box that is the seat of our thinking, our choices, and our selves. I’ve now devoured dozens of books and hundreds of articles about how the brain works, from fields including evolutionary psychology, systems theory, genetics, linguistics, and neurophysiology. In 2003 I began to introduce a few concepts about brain functioning into my coaching programs and started to notice strong links between what scientists were finding out about the brain, and how I had been training leaders to be better ...
