10 Quotes by Beau Lotto

No one is an outside observer of nature,We're defined by our environment and our interaction with that environment -- by our ecology. And that ecology is necessarily relative, historical and empirical.

Development never truly ends, as our brains evolved to evolve... we are adapted to adapt, to continually redefine normality, transforming ones space of possibility with new assumptions according to the continual process of trial and error.

Our perceptions are an ongoing, ever-growing. ever-changing story, and our brain allows us to be not just passive listeners to that story, but also the storytellers as well.

Information is agnostic. Meaning isn’t. The meaning you make with this knowledge is up to you.

Everything you see – everything – exists in only one place: in here. Inside your head.

A good leader thinks in shades of grey but speaks in black and white.

Stopping gives you the chance of knowing less, of halting the perception-narrowing force of the cognitive biases that we are always trying to confirm, of taking the jerk out of knee-jerk and sitting with the meaninglessness of the stimuli, even if it doesn’t feel meaningless.

Are we products of nature or nurture? It’s the wrong question. It’s not one or the other. Nor is it a combination of both. It’s their constant interaction.

This requires giving children the freedom to go, and the discipline and wisdom to know when to say stop, not because their transgression triggers one of your own fears, but because they are doing something that would actually harm them.