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kimball_hansen's review against another edition
1.0
I got nothing from this book. This was read post-hernia operation so maybe that was why. The anesthesia takes a long time to wear off.
sonowthen's review against another edition
5.0
Should be required reading for every high school and college student.
foschulz's review against another edition
5.0
Fantastic book for opening your brain & understanding how to think differently, what environment & processes can work for you & how your brain might be different from the norm. A must read for anyone who wants to know a little more about what goes on inside our noggin.
bootman's review against another edition
5.0
My YouTube channel and blog are called The Rewired Soul because I became fascinated when I learned about neuroplasticity. So many of us have the false belief that our brains are fixed and stop improving after a certain age, but this isn't true at all. In Elastic, Mlodinow does an awesome job with this book explaining how our brains continue to evolve and change with a ton of research and great examples to go along with them. If you're a creative person who hits blocks or you need to come up with ideas for work or solving problems in your everyday life, this book will teach you how to untap that potential through what Mlodinow calls "elastic thinking".
mmgooden's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.25
Confession: it has been sometime since I started this book, but I officially finished this month, which is not a reflection on the quality of work, but rather my reading habits. Elastic is the second book I’ve read by Mlodinow, (sequentially, I believe, this was written after Subliminal) and he did not disappoint. As a minor comparison between the two, it loses some of the wit and charm from his first anecdotally informational nonfiction; however nothing else is lost in this concise work on the advantages of bottom-up information processing, flexible thinking, and even some science behind why ADHD is an asset in our ever-changing world.
Mlodinow is adept at delivering scientific research and original examples in an easily devour-able read.
Once again, he surpasses my expectations as an academic author and I look forward to reading more of his work.
zhzhang's review against another edition
5.0
Another great book on how we think, more than with our brain.