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DNFed. I spent way to much reading this and it bored me to death. I won't deny there was some interesting parts that were very beneficial and that kept me going but for the most of it I felt like the author was bragging about how he had the mind of a psychopath but he wasn't one. I felt like he made this book as excuse to talk about himself, his upbringing an his accomplishments because no one asked for it, I assume that every person who got into this book was looking for talks about psychopathy not the Wekipidea page of the author. It could've been more honest if he just made an autobiografy and included the brain scan part in it as a chapter.
As a highschool student I was expecting to encounter some scientific passages that exceeded my basic level of knowlegde when it came to the human brain but these passages were so long and the author went on for chapters talking about something that no one but specialist in neurology would understand, it was ennoying and it got to a point where I felt like the author was flexing his knowledge because most of these long passages could've been avoided if he just explained simply the matter and went on with the crusial part of the book. At some point I didn't care anymore why he wasn't a psychopath, all I knew was that I was bored to death.
The two intresting points I got from this book:
- The human brain is a dark complicated place and humans themselves hasn't figured out much about it yet.
- Psychopaths cannot be specifically defined, there's overall traits that may identify a psychopath but it's not always accurate beacuse psychopathy is still a vague matter. (Also psychopaths on TV aren't always a great representation, they can be too extreme sometimes!)
As a highschool student I was expecting to encounter some scientific passages that exceeded my basic level of knowlegde when it came to the human brain but these passages were so long and the author went on for chapters talking about something that no one but specialist in neurology would understand, it was ennoying and it got to a point where I felt like the author was flexing his knowledge because most of these long passages could've been avoided if he just explained simply the matter and went on with the crusial part of the book. At some point I didn't care anymore why he wasn't a psychopath, all I knew was that I was bored to death.
The two intresting points I got from this book:
- The human brain is a dark complicated place and humans themselves hasn't figured out much about it yet.
- Psychopaths cannot be specifically defined, there's overall traits that may identify a psychopath but it's not always accurate beacuse psychopathy is still a vague matter. (Also psychopaths on TV aren't always a great representation, they can be too extreme sometimes!)