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A review by ohsoreads
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman
5.0
The link; when I was a teen, I read somewhere that a kid makes thousands of connection in their brains. It helps them to learn & make connections between concepts. Whilst reading Incognito, the link that clicked in my head was for the term ‘practice makes perfect’.
By applying David Eagleman’s theory that a person can work better because the brain works quieter, it would mean that by practicing something over and over again, one gets better because you are able to carry out the task unconsciously. This also means that in your head, the link has already been made, your brain just highlights it when it needs to be known/used/applied. I find that this was one of the fascinating theories I’ve read. This is also backed up by my reading of Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.
In the final chapter, I was able to decipher the phrase ‘The Meaning Of Life’. For a long time, even till today I struggle trying to understand it. But David Eagleman has paved a way and suggested that all these “screws of your brain” is what makes you YOU. And that certain things affecting your neurobiology may alter your overall character and “essence of yourself”. He also referenced Albert Camus’ works, about how he suggests to live against all [absurd] odds of life.
Although I only shared two specific studies that appealed to me, David Eagleman has share plentiful of fascinating case studies & scenarios that has opened my eyes to the many ways our neurobiology and this partnership of philosophy with psychology has in a whole, make us who we are.
By applying David Eagleman’s theory that a person can work better because the brain works quieter, it would mean that by practicing something over and over again, one gets better because you are able to carry out the task unconsciously. This also means that in your head, the link has already been made, your brain just highlights it when it needs to be known/used/applied. I find that this was one of the fascinating theories I’ve read. This is also backed up by my reading of Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.
In the final chapter, I was able to decipher the phrase ‘The Meaning Of Life’. For a long time, even till today I struggle trying to understand it. But David Eagleman has paved a way and suggested that all these “screws of your brain” is what makes you YOU. And that certain things affecting your neurobiology may alter your overall character and “essence of yourself”. He also referenced Albert Camus’ works, about how he suggests to live against all [absurd] odds of life.
Although I only shared two specific studies that appealed to me, David Eagleman has share plentiful of fascinating case studies & scenarios that has opened my eyes to the many ways our neurobiology and this partnership of philosophy with psychology has in a whole, make us who we are.