In the 1960s, Milner was looking for the part of the brain responsible for memory, but instead he stumbled upon the part responsible for emotion. And eventually, people came to understand that 99.9% of our lives are driven by the emotional brain, rather than the rational brain.
So, if you’re wondering How I got interested in neuroscience? Well, it was because of this emotion thing. Because of Daniel Goleman’s book. The book was actually written in 1995, but it wasn’t published until 1996. When I first read the title… I thought, what kind of book is this?
Emotional Intelligence?
What is that?
So I bought the book, but I didn’t read it for three days. When I finally started reading it — actually, I remember I was in the ER at the time — I thought, wow, this book actually makes sense. In that book, he mentioned someone named Richard Davidson, who was a pioneering neuroscientist. And so I started tracking down his writings. That’s how I got interested in neuroscience.
Neurosurgery and Neuroscience are two different things. Neurosurgery is a medical field focused on figuring out how to keep people from dying due to disease. It’s about how to prevent people from suffering because of illness — like back pain, headaches, and so on. A neurosurgeon doesn’t really think about how your brain works — doesn’t focus on that. But if there’s a tumor in the brain it’s the neurosurgeon’s job to remove it.
Milner tahun 60an itu mencari yang namanya memori itu di mana? malah nemu emosi. Dan akhirnya orang paham bahwa 99,9% kehidupan kita itu didrive oleh otak emosi. Instead of, alih2 oleh otak rasional.
Nah kalau mas inu bertanya, bagaimana saya tertarik neuroscience? ya gara2 emosi ini. Gara2 bukunya Daniel Golman.
Buku itu ditulis tahun 1995 sebetulnya, tetapi baru dipasarkan tahun 1996. Saya baca buku itu pertama.... ini buku apa an? Kok ada2 saja, kecerdasan emosi. Jadi saya beli buku itu, tiga hari gak saya baca. Setelah baca... saya ingat di UGD waktu itu, saya bacanya. Loh kok ada benarnya ya.. buku ini. Nah.. di buku itu dia menyebut orang yang namanya richard davidson, Nah itu pelopor neuroscientist. Wah akhirnya saya berburu tulisan2 nya si Richard. Nah itu saya mulai tertarik dengan neuroscience gitu. Bedah saraf dan neuro science itu dua hal yang berbeda. Bedah saraf ini adalah ilmu kedokteran yang tugasnya adalah bagaimana caranya orang itu tidak mati gara2 penyakit. Bagaimana orang itu tidak menderita gara2 sakit, misalkan sakit pinggang lah, pusing kepala gitu. Dokter bedah saraf itu gak mikir, cara kerja otakmu gimana? gak mikir.. Tapi misanya kalau ada tumor, tugasnya dokter bedah saraf, ngangkat tumornya, gitu ya..
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