The Brain Generates a Model for Prediction and Expectation

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The brain generates a model by and that model helps us navigate whatever is happening out there be that are whatever's happening that our senses are picking up on not we're not picking up on all of it. Once you have a belief your belief drives your mindset and which also drives your predictions and your expectations for instance if you were blindfolded you would automatically reach for the door handle at 39 inches from the ground because that's the standard place for door handles you'd expect to turn it or move it up or down That's because your beliefs drive that expectation and that prediction.

In this episode, Micheal Rousell, author of The Power of Surprise, explains the science of surprise at the level of neurons and brain structures, and then talk about how surprises often lead to the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, the different personal narratives that guide our behaviors and motivations and goals, and, perhaps most importantly, our willingness to be surprised again so that we can change and grow.

In the show, you will how we can use the current understanding of how surprise leads to learning, and how learning depends on interpretation, to improve our lives, and the lives of others