Your brain at positive is 31 percent more productive than your brain at negative, neutral or stressed.

In just a two minute span of time done for 21 days in a row, we can actually rewire your brain, allowing your brain to actually work more optimistically and more successfully.

VS Ramachandran on your mind

So faking your brain going wrong is evidence that your brain has gone wrong.

Exercise teaches your brain that your behavior matters.

Journaling about one positive experience you've had over the past 24 hours allows your brain to relive it.

And if happiness is on the opposite side of success, your brain never gets there.

We've found that there are ways that you can train your brain to be able to become more positive.

Blessed is your discretion, and blessed are you, that have kept me this day from blood guiltiness, and from avenging myself with my own hand.

And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.

And let's go to the universe because there's something out there that is more truthful than your mind, that is more truthful than your universe.

The path to the Truth is a labour of the heart, not of the head.

But when you exercise them, any given muscle adds strength to the whole system and that applies to your brain too.

First, every time your brain has a success, you just changed the goalpost of what success looked like.

That's what they call 'prejudice'! It's wrong to make your mind up on something you've never experienced!

What is already known is eagerly rediscovered, and although the mind doesn't stop comparing and checking for changes, the excitement of a reunion surpasses everything.

A second skill is equal poise, the ability to have the serenity to read the biases and failures in your own mind.

With me, everybody every time you read it or say it, you make another copy in your brain.

Here we activate it. And this gives the first glimpse of what is happening in your brain when there is a stimulation.

Not only does it make you happier, it turns on all of the learning centers in your brain allowing you to adapt to the world in a different way.

It turns out that our brains are actually wired for throwing things and, like muscles, if you don't use parts of your brain, they tend to atrophy over time.

90 percent of your long term happiness is predicted not by the external world, but by the way your brain processes the world.

But it was beautiful there. Imagine what it would be like to be totally disconnected from your brain chatter that connects you to the external world.

So, you know, there's bars. And by the time that Vishna was getting bigger, which means what gets bigger? Your head gets bigger.

You can delay the gratification that the social acknowledgement brings, and you can understand that your mind mistakes the talking for the doing.

See what we're finding is it's not necessarily the reality that shapes us, but the lens through which your brain views the world that shapes your reality.

And if we were able to arrange spaces where we could come across works where we would be told, use these works of art to cement these ideas in your mind, we would get a lot more out of art.

The Dalai Lama always likes to say he says that when you give birth in your mind to the idea of compassion, it's because you realize that you yourself and your pains and pleasures are finally too small a theater for your intelligence.

We find that meditation allows your brain to get over the cultural ADHD that we've been creating by trying to do multiple tasks at once and allows our brains to focus on the task at hand.

And by doing these activities and by training your brain just like we train our bodies, what we've found is we can reverse the formula for happiness and success, and in doing so, not only create ripples of positivity, but create a real revolution.

We brought to life a vast array of prototypes and products that you could control with your mind, like thought controlled home appliances or slot car games or video games or a levitating chair.

Imagine what your life would be like if I were to stroke it with this feather, but your brain was telling you that this is what you are feeling and that is the experience of my patients with chronic pain.

You have graphs and charts that tell you how your brain was doing not just how much rope you used or what your high score is, but what was going on inside of your mind.

And the way you should do that is study the furniture, let it marinate in your mind, distract yourself, and then a few days later, go with your gut, because unconsciously you've figured it out.

It can change the way you communicate with others, it can change your body, it can change your mind. So, we're trying to go to the next step of how you build on top of something like Guitar Hero.

So as you walk around a church, or a mosque or a cathedral, what you're trying to imbibe, what you're imbibing is, through your eyes, through your senses, truths that have otherwise come to you through your mind.

The second piece of bad news will be delivered to you by neuroscientists, who will tell you that if you are older than four or five years of age, that even if you have your eye corrected, the chances of your brain learning how to see are very, very slim again, slim or none.

I missed the '60s. I read about them I understand they were pretty interesting. I missed them, but I did spend that extraordinary year in Rome, and it's a place that is never far from my mind.

And if you're a biologist and you know about sharks, and you want to assess, you know, how much jeopardy am I really in here, there's one question that sort of jumps to the forefront of your mind immediately which is Diver 1 What kind of sharks?

I understand how someone's brain, how someone's mind can come to the place where it makes sense in fact it would be wrong, when your brain is working like that not to try to save the world through genocide.

So one thing I know about music music is the only thing that has power to enter your cell system, your mind, your heart, influence your soul and your spirit, and can even influence the way you live without even you knowing.

If you can raise somebody's level of positivity in the present, then their brain experiences what we now call a happiness advantage, which is your brain at positive performs significantly better than it does at negative, neutral or stressed.

But what people in this room know, and what we have to remind ourselves, though because you can know something intellectually, you can know what to do and then not use it, not apply it.

Nathan Myhrvold and team's latest inventions as brilliant as they are bold remind us that the world needs wild creativity to tackle big problems like malaria. And just as that idea sinks in, he rolls out a live demo of a new, mosquito zapping gizmo you have to see to believe.

They said Surely you are deluded .