false 74812 19 <I>Born on a Blue Day</i> is a journey into one of the most fascinating minds alive today -- guided by its owner himself. Daniel Tammet sees numbers as shapes, colors, and textures, and he can perform extraordinary calculations in his head. He can learn to speak new languages fluently, from scratch, in a week. In 2004, he memorized and recited more than 22,000 digits of pi, setting a record. He has savant syndrome, an extremely rare condition that gives him almost unimaginable mental powers, much like those portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in the film <I>Rain Man.</i><P><P>Daniel has a compulsive need for order and routine -- he eats the same precise amount of cereal for breakfast every morning and cannot leave the house without counting the number of items of clothing he's wearing. When he gets stressed or is unhappy, he closes his eyes and counts. But in one crucial way Daniel is not at all like the Rain Man: he is virtually unique among people who have sev- ere autistic disorders in that he is capable of living a fully independent life. He has emerged from the "other side" of autism with the ability to function successfully -- he is even able to explain what is happening inside his head.<P><P><I>Born on a Blue Day</i> is a triumphant and uplifting story, starting from early childhood, when Daniel was incapable of making friends and prone to tantrums, to young adulthood, when he learned how to control himself and to live independently, fell in love, experienced a religious conversion to Christianity, and most recently, emerged as a celebrity. The world's leading neuroscientists have been studying Daniel's ability to solve complicated math problems in one fell swoop by seeing shapes rather than making step-by-step calculations. Here he explains how he does it, and how he is able to learn new languages so quickly, simply by absorbing their patterns. Fascinating and inspiring, <I>Born on a Blue Day</i> explores what it's like to be special and gives us an insight into what makes us all human -- our minds.<P><P> 1461054 2006 Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant total:2578|5:516|4:1047|3:812|2:173|1:30| 2578 9580 4211 742 2 6 false true Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jan 30 10:07:20 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 30 10:14:43 -0800 2008 Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant, Daniel Tammet's memoir might seem intimidating. Yet the text itself is anything but--the chapters are relatively short, his sentences are easy to follow, and (aside from the first chapter, "...more...]]> 4 5 false false Sun Dec 30 07:48:12 -0800 2007 Wed Feb 06 09:23:11 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 2 false false Sun Aug 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 03 17:53:39 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 02 04:16:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 4 true false Sat Nov 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 17:05:01 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 17:25:12 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Mar 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Nov 22 15:26:18 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 15:26:18 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false true Sun Dec 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 10 16:43:53 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 07 07:20:36 -0800 2008
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