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Original research and thinking on human development

  • The Process & Purpose of Purpose

    How the brain makes meaning and how to take the helm

    INTRO – Navigating Reality: The Illusion of Fixed Meaning It may seem like some things just are, their meaning fixed and obvious. Likewise, we tend to believe that we choose our beliefs with deliberation and steer our decisions with clarity. But the brain does not operate like a compass pointing to eternal truths. The brain […]

    By Milo de Prieto

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    An illustration of a large sailing ship at sale at night to demonstrate how our minds are like ships always at sea, are we taking responsibility for the navigation when we need to?
  • Rethinking Maslow

    Rethinking Maslow

    Breaking with a hierarchy of scarcity to cultivate neuroecological abundance.

    Maslow’s famous pyramid positions personal meaning as the last stage of a hierarchy of priorities. Neuroscience shows something very different. The brain is a living ecosystem where purpose, connection, and creativity are daily requirements, not luxuries. When we stop climbing a hierarchy of scarcity and start tending our internal ecology, wellbeing becomes generative rather than conditional.

    By Milo de Prieto

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TOP TOPICS

An illustration of a tree showing its roots, trunk, branches, and leaves in harmony with its surroundings of sun, soil, water, and air to illustrate that the brain is an ecosystem, not a machine or computer.

Neuroecology

An illustration of city full of people where the buildings are part tall trees and part stone, metal, and glass to illustrate how society can live and evolve as an ecosystem. The people joyfully living in diverse community.

Quality of Life for All Life

An illustration of a woman (an every person) navigating a schooner by the stars to demonstrate the capacity to connect your cognitive identity and purpose to your work and living.

Cognitive Identity

ASD

ADHD

Human Development & Evolution