Chapter 2

Get to know your brain

How that wonderful brain of yours works and how to make it your friend

In this chapter, we’ll look at the way your remarkable brain functions, learn to identify some of the triggers that lead you to self-sabotage and begin the process of harnessing your enormous potential. We like to think of it as making friends with your brain. And, in order to make friends with someone, or in this case something, we need to get to know it a little better.

There is still a lot that we don’t know about the brain and how it functions but we are lucky to be living now. The amount that we do know has exploded over the last 10 years. But, before we look at the amazing things that a brain can do, we need, perhaps, to think about ...

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