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Cosa Rende Felice Il Tuo Cervello (e Perché Devi Fare Il Contrario) (2011)

by David DiSalvo(Favorite Author)

3.7 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

8833923819 (ISBN13: 9788833923819)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Bollati Boringhieri

review 1: This leans so far to the pop side of pop psychology that it topples over and falls flat. There's nothing in it that I haven't seen in other books, and even the clever, click bait like title has nothing to do with what's inside. But then I'm not an author, and this is the modern world. I should expect that things titled "10 things that you don't think you do that you actually do MIGHT KILL YOU...DEAD" are likely to be a waste of time. There are too many other books that do a better job of explaining the brain to spend time on this one.
review 2: This book is an addition to the collection of how to hack the aspects of our brains that tend to get us into trouble. DiSalvo is a science writer who has written an accessible "science help" book that should be quite u... moreseful to just about anyone.Among the topics discussed are the brain's craving for certainty and how it can trick us into feeling certain even when we have no reason to; how our tendency to discount the future can cause bad decisions now, how poor we are at judging when someone is lying and how certain circumstances can make us even worse, and how our brains can be influenced by those around us in ways that are both helpful and destructive.Though many of the topics in this book were familiar to me, a good third of the information was new. DiSalvo also presented some of the ideas I was familiar with in a more effective fashion; he helped me to see how my urge to get things off my desk is less an effect of efficiency but instead the result of a certain kind of brain discomfort that often impairs quality of work. He ends the book with a 50-point summary checklist of the ideas presented and how to implement them in a practical fashion. Given how prone the brain is to making shortcuts that often don't serve us and how difficult it can be to overcome these tendencies, this is a particularly handy guide that would be worth rereading on a regular basis. less

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