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I picked this up because I saw a couple of interviews of the author online. He didn't seem to go into some of the juicy details I was hoping to hear about & figuring he was being canny so as to encourage people to pick up his book, I did so. I was a bit disappointed, but I guess I shouldn't have been. It has a very slow start. Fallon has to give you background on himself & his field...which he does, but it's pretty dry. He loves talking about himself & does so, to an irritating degree. Some information simply didn't need to be included. It was interesting to see how he brushed aside any guilt or culpability for many of the things he did, especially as a child, categorizing them as 'pranks' and 'harmless.' These included stealing cars & doing property damage. He claims that he has more recently been able to recognize the pain he has caused his family from various actions (flirting, forgetting a grandchild alone at home, skipping out on family events to party), but he truly is not ashamed or contrite. Which, according to his brain chemistry, makes sense. It was interesting, but I think that you can be fairly satisfied from watching some of his interviews & talks on YouTube.
One interesting fact from the book:
"Connecting with others involved both cold (rational) cognition, where one person understands what others might be thinking and what an appropriate response might be, and hot (emotional) cognition, where one can experience empathy with another's feelings and attitudes."
"These brain circuits mature at different times during development, and although there are major maturational events that take place in the terrible twos, puberty, late adolescence, the twenties, and the mid-thirties, some are not completely integrated until one is in the sixties, which appears to be the typical average peak time of human insight, cognition, and understanding in many realms of life."
One interesting fact from the book:
"Connecting with others involved both cold (rational) cognition, where one person understands what others might be thinking and what an appropriate response might be, and hot (emotional) cognition, where one can experience empathy with another's feelings and attitudes."
"These brain circuits mature at different times during development, and although there are major maturational events that take place in the terrible twos, puberty, late adolescence, the twenties, and the mid-thirties, some are not completely integrated until one is in the sixties, which appears to be the typical average peak time of human insight, cognition, and understanding in many realms of life."