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3 What Our Brain Was Designed For (And How We Are Using It)

This basic primer has hopefully given you a good idea of how your brain works on a day-to-day basis and

you're probably already seeing ways that you can improve its function: by increasing the number of

desirable neurotransmitters for example, or by forming new connections by repeatedly performing two

actions together that you want to become associated.

But what can also help a great degree is to understand what the brain was designed for and thereby why

it is built the way it is.

And this all comes down to evolutionary psychology

You Are an Adaptoid

The most important thing to understand about your brain is that it is built for survival. And how do you

survive? By adapting to your environment. Every single aspect of your brain function is tied to this basic

principle and that means that a lot of the way your brain works can be predicted in different

circumstances.

At one point during the development of modern psychology, a field called 'behaviorism' reigned. What

this school of thought basically told us, was that everything could be rote learned and that our entire

subjective experience of the world was based on associations we formed through our interactions with

the world.

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