Hi Steemy friends! I’m Ben, finishing up my doctorate in neuroscience and obsessed with the brain.

Hi everyone!

My name is Ben Zimmerman, and I’m currently working on finishing up my Ph.D. in neuroscience. I’m obsessed with the brain, in love with the scientific method, passionate about learning and self-improvement, and I hope I can bring some of that to this awesome community.

Here's a picture of me without my face.

I am interested in how to enhance the mind because I want to extract the most out of my experience of the world. I love travelling and seeing new places to experience that dilation of time that comes with novelty. My most recent international trip was to China.

 Here’s me climbing one of the limestone karsts there.   

On the flip side, I try to be disciplined about practicing skills that I hope will benefit my mind. Mostly, I try to push my creativity and imagination.

I practice visual art to enhance the way I see the world. Here is a drawing before I started practicing 

  and here is where I am now

I also practice composing and playing music on the piano, mindfulness meditation, memorization, language learning, and some movement skills like climbing, juggling, and ving tsun kung fu. I hope that I can share parts of all of these with you, and learn from you all, too!