The Emotional Life Of Your Brain: How Its Unique Patterns Affect The Way You Think, Feel, And Live--and How You Can Change Them (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
This seemed mostly the story of a neuroscientist trying to prove the value of meditation to the scientific community and the western world. There were some useful insights towards the end of the book, though you could probably just read the first few chapters and the last 2 and skip all the stories about applying for grant funding and trekking through the Himalayas in between. There was a lot of repetition of anecdotes, explanations and study methodology descriptions, which I found quite irritating. I got a nice refresher on brain structure and function, and an interesting new way to think about emotions, but the actionable insights were too few to make this worth the time. There were things I liked about the book, however what I couldn't get beyond was Davidson's lack of awareness about the neuroscience of personality, and the mapping of brain resource use linked to personality type clusters. My feeling is that some of the research in this book was out-of-date before it was published. His work on emotional types was interesting, however there are many comparable systems that work equally as well.
What do You think about The Emotional Life Of Your Brain: How Its Unique Patterns Affect The Way You Think, Feel, And Live--and How You Can Change Them (2012)?
Really interesting and worthwhile read! May very well have to purchase a copy to have on reference.
—barrcuda70
I enjoyed this. It gave me a whole new way of looking at everyday things in life
—Rachael
Interesting to learn the mind-emotion connection
—lacresharenee931
Excellent take on the plasticity of the brain.
—Taylor
