My Hidden Chimp: From the best-selling author of The Chimp Paradox

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People who have suffered injuries to their frontal lobes lose the ability to regulate their emotional impulses. The neuroscience of the mind is simplified for children to understand and then use to their advantage.

Whenever we are faced with a choice, or with a chore or task we need to do, the Chimp chatters away with unwanted thoughts and overwhelms the rational part of us with strong almost-irresistible emotions tending towards aggression, self-preservation, or self-indulgence.

I imagine the challenge to create a book about neuroscience which is aimed at children would not be an easy one and yet My Hidden Chimp does an excellent job of making a complex concept understandable and relatable.

Release aggression: If you have an aggressive Chimp, finding an outlet for that aggression, such as participating in sports or banging on drums, can satisfy those urges. Any of the Chimp’s drives can end up as an addiction, which can cause great harm to a person’s life. We need to develop the skill of handing over control of the computer to the rational human being inside our head. To carry out its agenda, the Chimp operates according to the laws of the jungle, which are based on instincts, drives, vulnerability, and gender , each of which is explored below.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Professor Peters is also a best-selling author, and his latest book ‘A Path through the Jungle’ was published in 2021. I would try to help her to understand that we all feel this way to some extent and this is the way our minds are programmed to work.