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Awaken The Driver Within
The Self-Driving You blog is about evoking awareness and awakening the driver within to rewire our self-driving vehicles for success and better health. The first 30 blogs are chapters from the Self-Driving You book, which provides all the information needed to understand your brain and how to make the most of it. Subsequent blogs will expand on these concepts as we put them into practice to rewire our brains for who we want to be. The Self-Driving You provides all the information needed to get started; the rest is up to you.
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Chapter 6- How Artificial Networks Learn
Modern technology owes itself to traditional rules-based programming.1 Everything from Microsoft Word, Call of Duty, Minecraft, Instagram, smartphone apps, and websites use hardcoded step-by-step instructions to work.2 Coders write a list of commands, line after line, in a computer language, telling the program exactly what to do. Each one has thousands of lines of code…
Chapter 7 – The Life Of A Human Network
Neural networks have appeared in all life outside of sponges for the last 635-540 million years.1 They first appeared in tiny worm-like creatures and have been progressing in complexity through different worm, insect, fish, amphibian, reptile, bird, and mammal species ever since.2 Each animal category is like a different network class and type, marking a…
Chapter 8 – Your Brain, A Biological Learning Network
Our brain is a learning network that uses plasticity to form circuits that become the automatic thoughts, behaviors, habits, skills, and actions that drive us.1 Outside of hardwired circuits are those that take shape through experience. We have billions of activity-dependent neurons lying in position, waiting to fire and connect based on what we do.…
Chapter 9 -10,000 Hours To Mastery – Part 1
We are human vehicles equipped with a learning network that impartially wires lessons from experience into functional patterns representing our skills and abilities. When we are born, our genes hardwire patterns that provide survival skills like recoiling from pain and eating. The rest of the skills we acquire come from interacting with our environment. Our…
Chapter 9 – 10,000 Hours To Mastery – Part 2
Mastery is available to anyone willing to get on the path and stay on it. We must look foolish and persevere through the instincts telling us to stop. Mastery is an impersonal universal process that we can wire with 10,000 hours of deliberate practice. It is simple in theory but difficult in application, making achieving…
Chapter 10 – Using Mental Practice On The Path To Mastery
Imagine eating a salt and vinegar chip or a sour candy, the sound of nails on a chalkboard, jumping into a freezing lake, someone you love, someone you hate, breaking a bone, riding on a rollercoaster, a sunny day on a beach, or performing in front of a crowd of people. Simply thinking of sights,…