So here we go. We human beings excel at making plans. We're really good at it. We can

organize our behaviors towards a goal that we keep in mind and we can sustain those goals

over a significant period of time and when obstacles or hindrances come up we can using the power of the dorsolateral prefrontal

cortex we can amazingly adapt with a kind of flexibility that frankly no other species has.

It's the latest part of the brain to develop the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.

What is that? That's the DOPF.

You'll know when I say something like D.L. P.F.

Assume there's this realm, this region of the brain in the frontal lobe roughly towards your outer temples.

And you've got a left and a right dorsolateral as you have a left and right of everything in your brain.

Your left is doing and solving problems sequentially through thought and it's doing it slowly.

You're right, Dorsolateral is actually doing processing very, very fast, using what's called heuristics, which very simple yes-no procedures that your brain can do at an alarmingly fast rate.

In fact, to beat Gary Kasparov, the chess master, IBM's Deep Blue had to develop a computer

that could perform 200 billion calculations every second.

So think about that.

You've got a brain that if you really put yourself to a task or to a discipline, it would require

supercomputers that process that 200 billion calculations a second to probably make the same

smart choices that you would make.

You are fucking smart. Don't let anybody ever tell you otherwise.

Unless if you're doing something really embarrassing, then you might want to consider otherwise.

Along with it, it generally tends to involve other regions of the brain.

It tends to enlist as support the orbital frontal, which is the part of your brain, that considers

social objections and it's essentially where your super ego, your inner mom, your the part of you that worries

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