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How to Master Your Emotional Life—Lisa Feldman Barrett

The Weekend University

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The Importance of a Concept in Your Brain

Everything that you see is a combination of what's out there in the world and what's in your head. Your brain has new knowledge to create a to create these prediction signals, which you create a concept. And those signals in your brain change how you experience those blobs on the screen right now. So your brain is constructing the image of a B so that you see a B, even though there actually is no B present on the screen. That is how your brain really works. If you'd like to hear the full version, you can do so with the weekend university premium membership. This gets you access to your master library of over 230 talks and interviews with the world's leading psychologist

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