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Certainly, the factory conditions are really tough, and it's nothing you or I would want to do, but from their perspective, where they're coming from is much worse, and where they're going is hopefully much better, and I just wanted to give that context of what's going on in their minds, not what necessarily is going on in yours.
The researchers had to lever up their human
minds
with technology to dive deeper, to explore non-obvious hypotheses, and in fact, insights emerged.
So in my lab, we bring adolescents and adults into the lab to have a brain scan, we give them some kind of task that involves thinking about other people, their minds, their mental states, their emotions, and one of the findings that we've found several times now, as have other labs around the world, is part of the prefrontal cortex called medial prefrontal cortex, which is shown in blue on the slide, and it's right in the middle of prefrontal cortex in the midline of your head.
So the second question really was, you know, so we know that our
minds
change our bodies, but is it also true that our bodies change our
minds?
And when I say minds, in the case of the powerful, what am I talking about?
So what do the
minds
of the powerful versus the powerless look like?
Also, our bodies change our
minds.
So when I tell people about this, that our bodies change our
minds
and our
minds
can change our behavior, and our behavior can change our outcomes, they say to me, "It feels fake."
In fact, our
minds
depend on other people.
Isn't it incredible that we can't read each other's minds, when we can touch each other, taste each other, perhaps, if we get close enough, but we can't read each other's
minds.
Typically, we find a main street, and this main street becomes a linear strip map in our
minds.
We sit around it and it shapes our
minds.
And in fact, because their
minds
don't fit into society's version of normal, they're often bypassed and misunderstood.
So what we did was, we created a global action plan, and we're taking 10 percent of what's raised in each country now and putting it into a global fund, and we've got the best prostate cancer scientific
minds
in the world that look after that fund, and they come together each year and identify the number one priority, and that, last year, was getting a better screening test.
As human beings, we have this unique ability to have our
minds
stray away from the present.
On the other hand, when our
minds
wander, they're unconstrained.
We can't change the physical reality in front of us, but we can go anywhere in our
minds.
Since we know people want to be happy, maybe when our
minds
wander, they're going to someplace happier than the place that they're leaving.
As it turns out, people are substantially less happy when their
minds
are wandering than when they're not.
Now you might look at this result and say, okay, sure, on average people are less happy when they're mind-wandering, but surely when their
minds
are straying away from something that wasn't very enjoyable to begin with, at least then mind-wandering should be doing something good for us.
I think part of the reason, a big part of the reason, is that when our
minds
wander, we often think about unpleasant things, and they are enormously less happy when they do that, our worries, our anxieties, our regrets, and yet even when people are thinking about something neutral, they're still considerably less happy than when they're not mind-wandering at all.
Well, how often do people's
minds
wander?
Ten percent of the time people's
minds
are wandering when they're having sex.
And another key thing that I learned a lot throughout this whole process, last year Google named me as one of the brightest young
minds
in the world.
So we did another interview survey, tried to figure out why people changed their mind, and what type of group changed their
minds?
And after analyzing the answers, it turned out that more than half of them believe that they haven't changed their
minds.
And so the thousands of young Muslim men who flocked to Afghanistan in the 1980s to fight against the Soviet occupation of a Muslim country, in their
minds
they were fighting a jihad, they were doing jihad, and they named themselves the Mujahideen, which is a word that comes from the same root as jihad.
It creates economies of scale, significant and long-term resource investment, the expertise of many different kinds of people and different kinds of minds, and for individuals, consumers, it's bringing the standards, rules and recourse that we really want as consumers, and this is kind of bound up in a brand promise, and the companies are providing this on a platform for participation.
But maybe it's no coincidence that some of our most creative
minds
fail to leave these kinds of fears behind as adults.
What would happen to our
minds?
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