What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite
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What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite
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Written by Cody Gough. Insane In The Mem-Brain. Visit our Beautiful Books page and find lovely books for kids, photography lovers and more. Review quote "DiSalvo offers 'science-help' as opposed to self-help by detailing the mental shortcuts our minds like to take but that don't always serve us well, with the assumption that understanding brain function helps us fight its stubborn behavior.
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No aspect of daily life is left untouched: It boils down the latest findings into simple, easy-to-understand lessons you can apply to your daily life. Hallinan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Why We Make Mistakes "A five-star intellectual smorgasbord of the latest speculations on what makes us tick. With engaging prose and compelling stories, DiSalvo provides a fast-paced overview of mental shortcuts and foibles that make us happy in the short term, often to our long-term detriment. And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us "DiSalvo takes us on mind trips to the frontiers of brain and behavior research--and, being a superb guide, shows us how each development is useful, exciting, and inspired by wonder.
Bodies, Brains, and Behavior: The Science behind Love, Sex, and Attraction "A well-researched and effectively argued guide to uncovering the reasons why we so often think and act in ways that undermine our best interests, and it's also full of knowledge about why humans manipulate each other. If you want to know more about why you do what you do, and how to avoid becoming the victim of someone else's manipulation tactics, I encourage you to read this book.
He is also the writer behind the well-regarded science blogs Neuronarrative and Neuropsyched.
What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite by David DiSalvo
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