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Why Are People Like This? Prof. Dr. Sinan Canan was born in Ankara in 1972. He graduated from the Biology Department of the Faculty of Science at Hacettepe University. He completed his master's degree at the Histology-Embryology Department of the Faculty of Medicine at Ondokuz Mayıs University and his doctorate at the Physiology Department of the same institution. He became Associate Professor of Medical Physiology in 2010. He worked as a faculty member at the medical faculties of Başkent, Turgut Özal and Yıldırım Beyazıt Universities for over 10 years. Throughout his academic career, he preferred to focus on research topics at the boundaries of disciplines. He organizes conferences and programs for general audiences around the country on topics such as Chaos Theory, Complexity, Fractal Geometry, Forms in Nature, Learning, Language and Aphasia, Mind and Brain, Neuroscience of Mental Performance, Creativity and the Human Brain, Art and Neuroscience, Neuroscience of Beliefs, Educating Brain, Learning Brain, Brain for Parents, and transforming science and especially scientific topics that are considered difficult into narratives that everyone can understand, occupies most of his time. He is the author of the books “Things No One Can Know”, “The Changing Brain”, “Things to Forget”, “Secrets of the Brain”, “Staying Human in the Digital Future”, “Discovering Myself” and “Factory Settings of Man”. In 2013, he founded [n]Brain, a scientific narrative and research center, and served as the chairman of the scientific board until the end of 2017. Currently, he is a faculty member at Üsküdar University, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Psychology, and Head of the Neuromarketing Graduate Program. He continues his personal and corporate training activities with the Open Brain Education and Consultancy Company, which he founded in Istanbul in 2017. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx