Not everything the human being does is reasonable; but it does have its reasons for every thing it does. Here, we try to develop some practical takeaways from recent insights of articles in neurology .

The author recounts the tragedy of truth-telling in consulting.

Profiling is often unconscious and instinctual, our limbic survival mechanism for the jungles and urban back alleys.

Our new understanding of brain development can helps us better discern the child’s natural cognitive and behavioral inclinations, and therefore how to harmonize their emotions, logical models.

…If (a) the sensory signal patterns have not roused the front-line emotional guards, and (b) the brain decides there’s time for a more deliberate analysis, then the patterns are sent up to the rational PFC (prefrontal cortex) tecchie upstairs, which keeps a library of models of cool logic, abstracted from knowledge and experience…