The Brain Generates a Model That Helps Us Predict and Infer

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The brain generates a modeld, that model helps us navigate whatever is happening out there. Once you have a belief, your belief drives your mind set and which also drives your predictions and your expectations. 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. And if you believe that the sidewalks are safe to walk on, you're going to walk there safely until you see a car come screaming down the sidewalk. So there's different kinds of beliefs.

Not all surprises trigger change, but almost all change is triggered by surprise. 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.

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