#### Understanding the Self 1. Human Nature 1. Bias 2. Heuristics 3. Personality 4. Emotions 1. Trauma 2. Anxiety 2. Psychology 1. Functions and Structure of the Self 2. Mechanisms 3. Human Connection. 3. Neuroscience 1. Mechanisms 2. Protocols 3. Consciousness ##### Human Nature - [[Mental Models - Where Unconscious Thinking Goes Right and Wrong]] - Types of Bias, - Thinking Fast and Slow - Applications for decisions we make. - [[Analogy and Heuristics - Metaphors we live by]] - Bad Metaphors and what they mean for our map of understanding - Comparisons, decision making and thinking clearly. - [[Personality, Behaviour Modelling and Variance in Human Temperament]] - The Big 5, - Dimensions of individuality - Ways of Being. - [[How do emotions really work?]] - Lisa Feldman Barrett : Affect, Construction and Granularity - Psychoanalysis - Cognitive vs Physiological Approaches - [[Trauma, in manifestation and healing - An invisible hand]] - The Body Keeps the Score - [[Anxiety, Authenticity and Accommodation]] - Health of the Mind-Body - When the Body Says "No" ##### Psychology - [[Functions and Structure of the Self - What are our needs? How do we meet them?]] - Validity of Psychoanalytic 'Drives' - Generative Drives - A healthy psyche. - [[Control, Defence and Coping Mechanisms - What we hide from every day]] - Layers of Coping △ - Healthy vs Unhealthy Mechanisms. - [[Human Connection, and what makes generative relationships?]] - Matching drives - Personality - Negotiation and Bias. - [[Persuasion, in rhetoric and perception - what makes us tick, and how it gets hijacked]] - From Aristotle to Cialdini. - From ancient philosophy to neurochemistry ##### Neuroscience - [[Us versus Them : Expanding our circle of 'Us' and the Neuroscience of Antagonism]] - Robert Sapolsky - Limbic Judgement - Limitations of the Prefrontal Cortex - [[The Physiology of Risk, Reward and Motivation]] - Neurotransmitter proclivity. - Dopamine, Serotonin, Testosterone, Estrogen and Oxytocin - Personality of Entrepreneurs - [[Theories of Consciousness, and what that understanding implies for our lives]] - [Four Leading Theories](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-022-00587-4) 1. GWT 2. ITT 3. HOT's 4. Predictive Processing