What Could Be More Interesting Than How The Mind Works?

Steven Pinker is a cognitive scientist and an experimental psychologist. Language, behavior, and the development of human nature is what interested him most. As a student, Steven attended Harvard in 1976 which he received his Ph.D in psychology. Years later, he returned to become a professor at his old graduate school. As a child, Steven was smart and always had an interest in the human mind and how it worked. He grew up in a time where the concept of nature vs. nurture was highly talked about and often debated. Because of this unsolved concept, Steven was automatically drawn to finding answers. He hoped that by asking profound questions, he could find answers in a lab. He was so fascinated by the human brain that he wrote "How the Mind Works". He describes his written piece simply by saying that "its sheer audacity in trying to explain exactly that, how the mind works, between one pair of covers" (Pinker). Steven Pinker spent and devoted his time finding and researching ways to fully understand the complexity of the human brain. He furthered his education on the subject by coming up with his own theories that he backed up with information and facts he discovered along the way.