Watch: How Your Brain Works, A Maldivian Guide
A short video companion to Section 2, Your Brain. It uses the reefs, dhonis and sunsets you know to explain what goes on inside your head.
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Until then, here's your brain at a glance
Energy Budget: your brain uses about 20% of your energy at rest. Spend it wisely.
Prediction Machine: you guess, check and learn. Recalibrate your forecasts.
The Bouncer (Salience Network): threat, novelty and reward get in first. Set your guest list.
Autopilot (Default Mode Network), the drifting dhoni: great for ideas, bad when you're stuck. Ground yourself to steer.
Engine Room (the captain and the lookout): one task at a time. Sleep and nature recharge it.
Neuroplasticity, the growing coral: repetition rewires. Your teen years are prime time.
Two Selves, the sunset: story mode and now mode. You can switch.
Your brain is a reef: beautiful, complex, fragile, essential. Look after it, and it will look after your future.