Keith Henson

Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.

People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.

Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environment.

As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president.

Lie detection is like language there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.