THE HUMAN, CHIMP, AND COMPUTER BRAINS
HOW OUR BRAINS WORK




The "course book" for this is The Chimp Paradox - The Mind Management Program To Help You Achieve Success, Confidence, and Happiness, by Dr. Steve Peter.  This is excellently written and will do the best job of helping you to gain a perspective on how the brain and mind work, as an essential understanding for you to be able to create a better life!

"There are two different personalities in your (overall )brain due to the two brains."  "It is no use trying to control a Chimp with willpower."   "Don't try to control it, manage it."  Develop a management plan and systems.
















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CHIMP BRAIN
Emotional 'Thinker'
(Not 'good' or 'bad', like owning a dog)

Feelings, 'impressions', little evidence

Irrational, unpredictable,
Jumps to opinion
Thinks in black and white
Paranoid (protective)
Catastrophic, exaggerates
Emotive 'judgment'

Objectives

Self-survival
Perpetuation of the species

Use "jungle laws" to achieve objectives - and drives and instincts

Basis For 'Thinking' 

Feelings, 'impressions'
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Emotional thinking
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Action

Strategies

Fight/flight/freeze - Intense emotion (adrenaline), misjudgment and misinterpretation


HUMAN BRAIN
Higher Brain
(The actual you)

Facts/evidence-based, logical thinking

Objectives
(Self fulfillment)

Becoming the person want to be
Achieving what is wanted
Achieve meaning in life ('Purpose', etc.)

Once self needs are met, meaning from serving others.

Seek social agenda to support basics of living and harmony for survival and peace (via rules, laws, 'rights/wrongs'

Basis For Thinking, Decisions

Deducing things by going through steps:
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Works w/ evidence/facts to reach conclusion
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Pieces together information
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Employs reasoning to work things out
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Plan of action


COMPUTER  BRAIN
(Programs, information, automatic functioning)
(Helps guide other two brains)

Inputs from Chimp and Human brains
Learned behaviors
Learned beliefs
Automatic programs (some learned)





"Offers"   -->   Chooses
Purpose of this chart

To give you an overview of the brain in an understandable way, reflecting Dr. Peters way of making it more clear.  You must read the book.


The Chimp 'Offers', The Human 'Chooses'

Contrary to what many believe, the chimp only offers up suggestions, but they are not commands.  Impulses are not commands or musts at all. But you, the Human, need to make the choice on what to do, otherwise we default to the Chimp.  
This is a key idea I use in my upcoming book Smart (and easy) Self Control, which, when ready, can be linked to from Books.  We do not have to obey and impulse or a thought!

Intervening!

Human Interention In Our "Chimp Thinking" - Don't Think, Or Act, Like A Chimp In Your Life - You'll be a real chump if you allow the latter.

See the scientific difference between the genders

The Female And The Mail Chimp Brains  


UNHELPFULS

Hard, soft wired
HELPFULS

Programmed
BOOK OF TRUTHS

"What works", values
MINDSETS

Views, beliefs
See Female And Male Chimp Brains - Similar but different drives, characteristics