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A review by writerbeverly
Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves by Sharon Begley
4.0
This book is an excellent collection of stories and studies on how it appears that animals - and humans - can rewire their brains. Rewire in case of damage, rewire in cases of missing senses (sight, sound), rewire via training to compensate for certain learning disabilities like dyslexia.
If you don't know much about this field *raises hand* it's exciting, and Begley's writing is excellent. But in many ways it feels like a first quarter report card. There's still so much we DON'T know, that the overall impact is impossible to truly measure, yet, and to the author's credit, she doesn't try to tie up all the loose ends.
I recommend this read, and at the same time, maybe it's me being used to instant gratification, I feel frustrated because I know people whose brains could use rewiring (including mine) but am pretty sure I can't invest tens of thousands of hours in meditation like a Buddhist monk. If you're looking for a self-help formula to make your own life better, this isn't it... There are hints, there are ideas, but there is no spoon feeding, and no guarantees.
If you don't know much about this field *raises hand* it's exciting, and Begley's writing is excellent. But in many ways it feels like a first quarter report card. There's still so much we DON'T know, that the overall impact is impossible to truly measure, yet, and to the author's credit, she doesn't try to tie up all the loose ends.
I recommend this read, and at the same time, maybe it's me being used to instant gratification, I feel frustrated because I know people whose brains could use rewiring (including mine) but am pretty sure I can't invest tens of thousands of hours in meditation like a Buddhist monk. If you're looking for a self-help formula to make your own life better, this isn't it... There are hints, there are ideas, but there is no spoon feeding, and no guarantees.