Found on Dan Trachtenburg’s (from Totally Rad Show) one cool thing a day
These people basically have superpowers…
December 19, 2010 60 Minutes
httpvhp://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=B0F4EC399DDD35A9
I only wish I could timestamp recall every single moment big or small in my lifetime. Part 2 on adrenaline and memory reminds me of this excerpt from a favorite book of mine, by French psychologist and anthropologist Clotaire Rapaille, The Culture Code (first heard about seen on PBS Persuaders):
My journey toward the discovery of cultural codes began in the early 1970’s. I was a psychoanalyst in Paris at the time, and my clinical work brought me to the research of the great scientist Henri Laborit, who drew a clear connection between learning and emotion, showing that without the latter the former was impossible. The stronger the emotion, the more clearly an experience is learned. Think of a child told by his parents to avoid a hot pan on a stove. This concept is abstract to the child until he reaches out, touches the pan, and it burns him. In this intensely emotional moment of pain, the child learns what “hot” and “burn” means and is very unlikely ever to forget it.
The combination of the experience and its accompanying emotion create something known widely (and coined as such by Konrad Lorenz) as an imprint. Once an imprint occurs, it strongly conditions our thought processes and shapes our future actions. Each imprint helps make us more of who we are. The combination of these imprints defines us.
