Recently I finished a book by Steven Johnson, called Mind Wide Open. It’s about your brain and the neuroscience of everyday life. When I started the book my progress was slow. Every time I finished a page I had to find someone to share the information with. Later learning to relax and talk about it later my progress picked up. Funny thing is later I read in this book how reading and then talking about what you just read helps you retain the information much better than if you didn’t. I’ve always been extremely fascinated by the human brain and its inner workings. This book helped me better understand what all these powerful chemicals in my brain are doing and why. I pay more attention to the pattern of chemical changes and learn from them.
“So this is your brain, in all its multiplicity. You are part reptile, part mammal, part primate, part homo sapiens. You are a twitchy amygdala; you are a dopamine fiend; you are under the spell of oxytocin. You are an unthinkably complex series of connections, of links, spun together by your genes and by your lived experiences. You are a walking assembly of patterns and waves, clusters of neurons firing in sync with one another.” — Steven Johnson, author of Mind Wide Open
Continuing my high on neuroscience I purchased two other popular books both written by Contributing Editor at Wired Jonah Lehrer, How We Decide and Proust Was a Neuroscientist. I will post about these two when I finish them.
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