In a New York Times blog Andrew W. Lo wrote “Using techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging, neuroscientists have documented the fact that monetary gain stimulates the same reward circuitry as cocaine - in both cases, dopamine is released into the nucleus accumbens. Similarly, the threat of financial loss activates the same fight-or-flight circuitry as physical attacks, releasing adrenaline and/or cortisol into the bloodstream, which results in elevated heart rate, blood pressure, and alertness. These reactions are hardwired into the human physiology, and while some of us are able to overcome our biology through education, experience, or genetic good luck, the vast majority of the human population is driven by these “animal spirits” that John Maynard Keynes identified over 70 years ago’.
Dopamine in the mesolimbic pathway increases general arousal and goal directed behaviors and decreases latent inhibition; all three effects increase the creative drive of idea generation. This has led to a three-factor model of creativity involving the frontal lobes, the temporal lobes, and mesolimbic dopamine.
http://www.thehistoryoftheworldsgreatestentrepreneurs.com/books.php?bookId=1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine
Friday 30 July 2010
Thursday 29 July 2010
Reptile Dreams of Entrepreneurs
I recently received this email from an American Professor who indulges me with my questions regards the brain:
Dreams are generated in the mesencephalon region of the brain. They are rearrangement of our memories and our conscious and unconscious observations. The dreams occur in REM (Rapid Eye Movement) State. Before the reptilian brain presents the dreams, it completely paralyzes our body so that we cannot move in REM State. There are some beneficial effects of dreams. The most important one is memory consolidation. This is a very complex subject and I won’t go into it here. No one really knows whether reptilian brain is trying to communicate with us or it is simply doing it for the benefit of our memory system. Because
- reptilian brain has no verbal facilities and can only communicate visually,
- the only time we can accept internal visual signals when we are asleep,
- our 3 brains are not yet fully integrated,
I am inclined to think that memory consolidation is just a byproduct of our dreams.
There is one other related area that we should cover is our two vision systems. Most people are not aware that we have an amphibious vision system in addition to our normal visions system, which consists of our eyes and the visual cortex at the back our head. Visual cortex with its several image-processing platforms is very slow. You should pay particular attention to our amphibious vision system, as this is probably one of the important assets of your entrepreneurs. Here is paragraph written by Linden.
“Just as the mouse brain is a lizard brain "with some extra stuff thrown on top," Linden writes, the human brain is essentially a mouse brain with extra toppings. That's how we wound up with two vision systems. In amphibians, signals from the eye are processed in a region called the midbrain, which, for instance, guides a frog's tongue to insects in midair and enables us to duck as an errant fastball bears down on us. Our kludgy brain retains this primitive visual structure even though most signals from the eye are processed in the visual cortex, a newer addition. If the latter is damaged, patients typically say they cannot see a thing. Yet if asked to reach for an object, many of them can grab it on the first try. And if asked to judge the emotional expression on a face, they get it right more often than chance would predict especially if that expression is anger.”
http://www.thehistoryoftheworldsgreatestentrepreneurs.com/books.php?bookId=1
http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/0956439101/ref=sr_1_1_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&qid=1280435052&sr=8-1
Dreams are generated in the mesencephalon region of the brain. They are rearrangement of our memories and our conscious and unconscious observations. The dreams occur in REM (Rapid Eye Movement) State. Before the reptilian brain presents the dreams, it completely paralyzes our body so that we cannot move in REM State. There are some beneficial effects of dreams. The most important one is memory consolidation. This is a very complex subject and I won’t go into it here. No one really knows whether reptilian brain is trying to communicate with us or it is simply doing it for the benefit of our memory system. Because
- reptilian brain has no verbal facilities and can only communicate visually,
- the only time we can accept internal visual signals when we are asleep,
- our 3 brains are not yet fully integrated,
I am inclined to think that memory consolidation is just a byproduct of our dreams.
There is one other related area that we should cover is our two vision systems. Most people are not aware that we have an amphibious vision system in addition to our normal visions system, which consists of our eyes and the visual cortex at the back our head. Visual cortex with its several image-processing platforms is very slow. You should pay particular attention to our amphibious vision system, as this is probably one of the important assets of your entrepreneurs. Here is paragraph written by Linden.
“Just as the mouse brain is a lizard brain "with some extra stuff thrown on top," Linden writes, the human brain is essentially a mouse brain with extra toppings. That's how we wound up with two vision systems. In amphibians, signals from the eye are processed in a region called the midbrain, which, for instance, guides a frog's tongue to insects in midair and enables us to duck as an errant fastball bears down on us. Our kludgy brain retains this primitive visual structure even though most signals from the eye are processed in the visual cortex, a newer addition. If the latter is damaged, patients typically say they cannot see a thing. Yet if asked to reach for an object, many of them can grab it on the first try. And if asked to judge the emotional expression on a face, they get it right more often than chance would predict especially if that expression is anger.”
http://www.thehistoryoftheworldsgreatestentrepreneurs.com/books.php?bookId=1
http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/0956439101/ref=sr_1_1_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&qid=1280435052&sr=8-1
Friday 23 July 2010
Turning Kids Into An Entrepreneurial Tyrannosaurus Rex
From a natural history perspective teaching a young predator how to fend for themselves is the key to survival and a prerequisite of success. In the final scene of the movie The Lost World: Jurassic Park a female Tyrannosaurus Rex corners her prey (a man) after being lured to the cargo hold. Rather than kill her prey herself she encourages her off-spring to do it by nudging the fledgling forward with her nose. Having pushy parents helps prepare 'entrepredators' for the hunt ahead.
Animals such as lions ‘push’ their young to learn how to hunt and the case of the Okovanko delta, how to swim. Many of the world’s greatest entrepreneurs were born to some quite exceptional parents. Examples of those that benefited from early parental guidance or early hunting guidance were Giovanni Medici, his son Cosimo, Christopher Columbus, Jacob Fugger, Samuel Colt, John Law, Matthew Boulton, Mayer Rothschild, Ivar Krueger, John D Rockefeller, Aristotle Onassis, Berry Gordy, Martha Stewart, Richard Branson, Donald Trump and many more.
http://www.thehistoryoftheworldsgreatestentrepreneurs.com/true_stories.php
Law learned banking as a child from his parents and ended up as France’s central banker. Devil’ Bill (1810 – 1906) tried to cheat his son’s as often as he could to sharpen them. Their mother Eliza had one of her boys lending money to farmers at 7% interest as a mere child. The young lad was set on a course to become the world’s richest man ever. Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794 – 1877) benefitted similarly. Donald Trump’s father passed on his experience as a very successful property developer and would tintinnabulate “You’re a Killer... you’re a king” in the ears of his young impressionable son. Sam Colt’s father owned a factory where young Sam (1814 – 1862) began working from the age of ten. Branson’s mother and father maintained a regime designed to ensure their children maintained a spirit of adventure and a ‘can do’ mentality. Interestingly Branson’s father Ted is cousin to Scott of the Antarctic. Branson is off to space next.
Malcolm Gladwell highlights in his book Outliers the fortunes of a man with no, or very little, parental guidance. Chris Langan, armed with an IQ that’s nearly 25% higher than world’s most famous genius, Albert Einstein. Langan, is an American celebrity purely because his IQ “defies” as Gladwell puts it “human explanation.” But Langan has not won a Pulitzer or Nobel Peace prize or solved any human or scientific mysteries. He isn’t a bum, but his level of success is in no commensurate to his IQ. The thing he lacked in his early life, Gladwell proposes, was parental guidance.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/0956439101/ref=sr_1_1_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&qid=1280435052&sr=8-1
http://thehistoryoftheworldsgreatestentrepreneurs.com
ron@thehistoryoftheworldsgreatestentrepreneurs.com
http://www.ronshillingford.blogspot.com
http://www.thehistoryoftheworldsgreatestentrepreneurs.com/blog
Parents Can Evolve a Child Into A Entrepreneurial Tyrannosaurus Rex
From a natural history perspective teaching a young predator how to fend for themselves is the key to survival and a prerequisite of success. In the final scene of the movie The Lost World: Jurassic Park a female Tyrannosaurus Rex corners her prey (a man) after being lured to the cargo hold. Rather than kill her prey herself she encourages her off-spring to do it by nudging the fledgling forward with her nose. Having pushy parents helps prepare entrepredators for the hunt ahead.
Animals such as lions ‘push’ their young to learn how to hunt and the case of Okovanko delta, how to swim. Many of the world’s greatest entrepreneurs were born to some quite exceptional parents. Examples of those that benefited from early parental guidance or early hunting guidance were Giovanni Medici, his son Cosimo, Christopher Columbus, Jacob Fugger, Samuel Colt, John Law, Matthew Boulton, Mayer Rothschild, Ivar Krueger, John D Rockefeller, Aristotle Onassis, Berry Gordy, Martha Stewart, Richard Branson, Donald Trump and many more.
Law learned banking as a child from his parents and ended up as France’s central banker. Devil’ Bill tried to cheat his son’s as often as he could to sharpen them. Their mother Eliza had one of her boys lending money to farmers at 7% interest as a mere child. The young lad was set on a course to become the world’s richest man ever. Cornelius Vanderbilt benefitted similarly. Donald Trump’s father passed on his experience as a very successful property developer and would tintinnabulate “You’re a Killer... you’re a king” in the ears of his young impressionable son. Sam Colt’s father owned a factory where young Sam began working from the age of ten. Branson’s mother and father maintained a regime designed to ensure their children maintained a spirit of adventure and a ‘can do’ mentality. Interestingly Branson’s father Ted is cousin to Scott of the Antarctic. It’s tempting to think of the African adventurous travelling down through time continuing to push hosts to adventure beyond known boundaries. Branson is off to space next.
In his book Outliers Malcolm Gladwell in contrast highlights the fortunes of a man with no, or very little, parental guidance. Chris Langan, armed with an IQ that’s nearly 25% higher than world’s most famous genius, Albert Einstein. Langan, is an American celebrity purely because his IQ “defies” as Gladwell puts it “human explanation.” But Langan has not won a Pulitzer or Nobel Peace prize or solved any human or scientific mysteries. He isn’t a bum, but his level of success is in no way close to what is remotely commensurate to his IQ. The thing he lacked in his early life, Gladwell proposes, was parental guidance.
ron@thehistoryoftheworldsgreatestentrepreneurs.com
http://www.ronshillingford.blogspot.com
http://www.thehistoryoftheworldsgreatestentrepreneurs.com/blog/
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