“We'd be really screwed if we had to start our life over again as child...” — Paul Bloom Quote

We'd be really screwed if we had to start our life over again as children with our brains right now, because I think we lose the plasticity and flexibility.

Humans are social beings, and we are happier, and better, when connected to others.

We are naturally moral beings, but our environments can enhance - or, sadly, degrade - this innate moral sense.

We benefit, intellectually and personally, from the interplay between different selves, from the balance between long-term contemplation and short-term impulse. We should be wary about tipping the scales too far. The community of selves shouldn't be a democracy, but it shouldn't be a dictatorship, either.

At the end of the day, the bowlers have to get 20 wickets to win a Test match. I'm sure they do have a little bit of brains to get those wickets.

I think the best learning is done with active manipulation. And we need to be able to work with our hands; it's not just about using our brains.

People haven't even begun to tap into the potential of what the mind is possible of doing. We only use a certain percentage of our brains.

Like solo sailors venturing into the Southern Ocean, climbers are seduced by risk. The desire to push to a summit or scale a rock face is so strong that they consciously or subconsciously minimize safety precautions drilled into their brains.