When you’re at your desk with your students, your students are the ones that have to make decisions about your work, whether it’s for you, for them, or for you. You can’t stop thinking about what you have to do, what you have to think about, and what you need to be thinking about.
Engineering is all about thinking and decision-making, so it’s obvious that a new engineer has to be thinking about what to do, what to think, and what you have to think about. Our brains are designed to do that, so the only way to get them to stop is to force them to stop thinking about what they should be thinking about.
The thing about thinking is that it’s something that we can do without consciously thinking it. Just looking at someone and saying, “I think he’s very smart and he’s kind to his wife,” or “I think that my company has a great product and we should be selling it,” is a pretty standard way to think.
Our brains are not designed to think a certain way. They are designed to think. We just have to direct our thoughts the right way. Think like an engineer. We can direct our thoughts just as effectively by building a system that is based on our own understanding of how our brain works.
There’s a lot more to the theory here. It’s not like we can actually build something that is both physically and physically complex and that’s not something you can try to build from scratch. But we can build something that is based on how we do our brain.
You may be thinking, “hey, that sounds really cool,” but it isn’t. It makes you less able to think. And that is because the way we think is based on the assumptions we make about our brains which then have an impact on the way we act.
We humans like to think we are special, but we are not. We are a product of evolution, and we evolved a brain designed to do a specific job.
We like to think we are special, but we are not. We are a product of evolution, and we evolved a brain designed to do a specific job. Our brains are built in the same way as other animals: it is a set of hardwiring of the most basic building blocks for movement and reasoning. The only difference is that we have the ability to control our brains.
It is no surprise that the majority of our actions occur without thought. In fact, this is likely the reason that we act the way we do: because we have a hardwired drive to do stuff. Although computers have made this hardwired drive easier to control, it is still a hardwired drive. I’m not saying that you can’t change for the better, but it is still a hardwired drive.
The hardwired drive in us, the part of us that runs computers, is called the frontal lobe. The frontal lobe is one of the three frontal lobes. The other two are the temporal lobe and the parietal lobe. We are born with this hardwired drive, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t change it. The frontal lobe is an active place, in other words, it can be stimulated, and it can be influenced.