Today, most of us spent our day on autopilot, moving from meeting to meeting with little or no time to think things through. Stretched by heavy workloads and facing ever more complex environments, we are increasingly reliant on our instincts—the default ways of thinking and behaving we fall into when we don't have time to think. However, depending on instincts is a bit like gambling: sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
In 2020, we began a research program, involving a review of over 1,200 studies, to investigate where our instincts and default tendencies come from and how we can improve them. The answers lie in the neuroscience of brain development.
