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The book is not explicitly mentioned by name, but it's referenced when discussing Carol Dweck's research on growth mindset and its relation to the brain's prefrontal cortex and the amygdala.
She has this great psych review paper that contradicts a lot of received wisdom about the prefrontal planning regions of the brain and the kind of amygdala in the hippocampus, the affective regions an...
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The book is not explicitly mentioned by name, but it's referenced when discussing Carol Dweck's research on growth mindset and its relation to the brain's prefrontal cortex and the amygdala.
She has this great psych review paper that contradicts a lot of received wisdom about the prefrontal planning regions of the brain and the kind of amygdala in the hippocampus, the affective regions and the memory creation regions.
And the classic argument in going back to Plato and the Phaedrus, is that the rational acting part of the brain plans out what it wants, makes all these calculations and then has to tame the emotional part in order to make those goals into a reality.
And so the emotion, you know, the amygdala, the mesolymbic, that's this unruly horse that the charioteer has to harness, you know?
And I think that Carol argued, and I think other people have argued too. I've seen Adriana Galvan and Ron Dahl and others argue this, that the affective regions are often the teacher and the prefrontal is the student.
And what Carol argued is that Phaedra's had is totally wrong. It's not that the prefrontal charioteer is taming the emotional. It's really that the affective part is training the prefrontal to be better at pursuing the goals that matter in the social milieu that you have.