Anne-Laure Le Cunff reports that she is sometimes asked how she got into neuroscience. "In a previous life, I was working at Google in marketing. After several failed pivots in my career, including co-founding a startup in the nutrition space (another field I'm passionate about), I was utterly lost as to what my next steps should be.

"So I decided to go back to the drawing board. What was something I would love to keep on learning about, even if I wasn't paid to do so? What was something that would keep me awake at night, and get me out of bed in the morning?

"The answer was: the brain. I have always been fascinated with how the brain works, how conscious experiences emerge, how different our perceptions must be from what the world feels like to other living beings. So I decided to go back to school.

"With my unrelated background, I wasn't sure where to start, until I discovered applied neuroscience, a branch of neuroscience that aims to get research findings out of the lab and into the world, whether it's the world of education, work, food, or any other field where the way our brains work plays an important role."

She's written a concise article on the various ways we are learning to learn from neuroscience.

Article: An Introduction to Applied Neuroscience