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fatherroderick's review
5.0
What an interesting book! The title suggests that it is a self-help, life-hack type of book, but instead it is a pretty comprehensive explanation of the working of various ‘brain chemicals’ and possible evolutionary causes for their effect on our behavior. The book often broadens the subject to the animal world and explains why we are at once very much like other living beings, but also distinct. Towards the end of the book the reader gets some examples and tips on how to retrain your brain by creating new neural pathways by establishing new habits and by implementing them for at least 45 days in a row. I’ve heard that number before in other books about habits, but the author gives it a convincing scientific underpinning. I feel I should reread the book at one point to fully grasp the extent to which brain chemicals play a role in my own choices, fears or pursuits. I also appreciate how the author doesn’t look at our behavior in a deterministic way, but stresses that if we are aware of the way our brain functions, we can also make deliberate choices to modify our behavior and relearn or unlearn things.
kait_sixcrowsbooks's review
I’m sure this book has merit, but it’s more of a “it’s not you, it’s me” situation — I thought it was something else instead of what it actually is. Ah well, it was just a random book I saw at the library anyway, lol.
victoriaheldt's review
5.0
This book gives a great overview of the neuroscience of happiness. It changed my view on the pursuit of happiness and also on the meaning of life.
aniarizona's review
1.0
More like Hurt Brain.... Didn't like it.... Was not what I thought it was going to be like. And I was rather bored half way in.
It mostly led me to the conclusion that Boy do animals get tested on everything under the sun, all the animal research mentioned in this book put me of... I never found anything helpful, was talking more on why are brain evolved the way it did. And lots about what animals do in comparison to humans
Disappointed Buy.
It mostly led me to the conclusion that Boy do animals get tested on everything under the sun, all the animal research mentioned in this book put me of... I never found anything helpful, was talking more on why are brain evolved the way it did. And lots about what animals do in comparison to humans
Disappointed Buy.