Our brains are a tool for us, just like our hands. We are not a tool for our brain.

• ‘I feel like my brain is a tool, but not my tool - it’s disconnected’ It’s doing it’s own thing.
• If this is true it means I can learn programming. Others have learnt it, so you can too.
• It takes time - does it?
• My brain doesn’t help me, it spends energy on being confused and nervous.
• My brain is a tool and the function is problem solving.

You have an amazing brain, because you are a human. Just like a dog has an amazing sense of smell, because she is a dog.

She doesn’t need to be some special privileged dog, it’s just part of her dogness.

Can she train to have a super nose? Yes, and that’s what we’re doing here with our brains, but can she already find a fingernail sized piece of chicken half a mile away with her nose without training? Yes. She is a dog. Dogs have amazing noses.

We are humans, we have amazing brains.

YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS

• Our brain is like a pre-programmed computer. (Primal brain)
• Conscious thoughts = thoughts we choose