Today I celebrate a month in my 1001 ranger challenge. I continued to write everyday for one month and continuing.

I also finished reading the book Synaptic Self.

The book is a deep reference about neuroscience and how brain synapses shape who we are.

Quotes I liked from the book: Self image is perpetuated. This resembles another theory I read about involving the self fulfilling prophecy.

The book tells how all brain regions exhibit plasticity in earlier years and learning in later years of the human.

How all brain areas change their connections based on their functions. Sensory regions neurons reform to perform their function better, motor neurons in the cerebellum change their connections and also all other areas are modified by thinking as a behavior that controls how they communicate.

I read about the part of the brain stem that called the reticular activating system. This part makes the creature more alert.

The researchers found that modulators like dopamine can stimulate this part of the brain in cases of unfamiliar, unexpected, novel or painful experiences.

Those modulators are released in the brain and make what looks like a fire alarm in a small town.

This alarm can make every person in that town alert and stands to look for the source of fire. This is exactly what happens when you activate you reticular activating system.

I figured out why having a cold shower in winter makes this mood alternation. It happens because sudden and unexpected feeling of pain due to the cold water.

Just as Tony Robbins said, at the beginning, you feel that every cell in your body has heard the alarm for war, and then you start to calm down with a pleasant feeling of openness and activity.

I also started to read Elon Musk book for Ashlee Vance.

The book starts as a sci-fi movie or a space odyssey.

For the first look, the writer is trying to catch the reader's attention to Elon's nature as a nerd.

I'm continuing to read the book and will keep updating.

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