Thanks to neuroscience research, we today know that we don‘t exclusively absorb culture through universally shared, standard-issue, human perceptual equipment, but culture determines what we can and can‘t perceive. Our functional cognitive architectures are modified by our culture. The impact of this so-called perceptual learning is bigger than most of us imagine. Not only literacy and language but also such fundamental brain activities, such as sight and perception, are changed
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Change Yourself Before You Try Changing The World!
Having enjoyed a few days of skiing in Italy, I was reminded of a pearl of wisdom by a ski instructor of my kids. After a downhill run, when discussing what to improve skiing, the instructor told my son: “Not the slope must change — it can’t — you must!” In other words: Change yourself before you try changing the world! This simple statement by a veritable expert in this field (as opposed to my son’s father)