Scott H Young

Studying a subject can be tricky, but no subject is harder than learning about ourselves. Here are two paths forward.

In the last lesson, I introduced a simple metaphor for motivation: action always flows downhill. Thanks to the amazing circuitry in our basal ganglia, we take the billions of simultaneously firing neurons in our brain and produce sequential thoughts and actions. Yet the choice of which action to take isn’t always the one our higher […]

How does motivation work in the brain? Let's peek under the hood and see what actually drives you to action.

There are two stories about how success happens. One is overcoming a heroic challenge. The other is a lot more subtle...