Everyone should be trying to discipline their mind every day, it takes work to get your brain thinking a positive and helpful way. You need to be in control of yourself not fleeting external influences.

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”

― Albert Einstein

Buddhism as a "Science of the Mind"

“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”
― Alan Wilson Watts

Scientists Proclaim Animal and Human Consciousness the Same

Very, very cool- but how could consciousness really differ?