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70 Amazing Facts About Your Brain - And Why It Does Weird Things
Your brain is an amazing thing. It can be amazingly brilliant and even amazingly stupid.
This book takes a humorous look at the human brain and exposes some fascinating facts that will have you shaking your head in disbelief.
It will also help you understand why sometimes your memories fool you and how sales and advertising people use your brain against you when trying to sell you things.
After reading this book you will be less likely to get ripped off, get sucked into petty arguments over things that never happened and you will have laughed a lot. What more can you ask for?
This book takes a humorous look at the human brain and exposes some fascinating facts that will have you shaking your head in disbelief.
It will also help you understand why sometimes your memories fool you and how sales and advertising people use your brain against you when trying to sell you things.
After reading this book you will be less likely to get ripped off, get sucked into petty arguments over things that never happened and you will have laughed a lot. What more can you ask for?
30 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 6, 2013
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March 6, 2017
I had so much fun with this book
January 22, 2020
Fun small read
April 12, 2013
70 Amazing Facts About Your Brain brings you everything from the mundane to the fascinating in an effort to help you understand just what all your brain can do, and why.
The author peppers the factoids, presented in a numbered list with examples, with humorous comments to keep the material from becoming too dry. In the end, he also includes helpful information on how your brain responds to external stimuli and how you can determine which of these are designed to trick you into behaviors that might not be in your best interest, like buying sale items that aren't as good a bargain as they appear.
It's interesting information presented in a format that is easy to digest. It's like watching the Discovery Channel, but without the interruption of commercials and annoying recaps. There's no redundancy here, and some of the points build on each other so that by the end, you will at the very least have some fun new trivia stored away and at best may even be able to recognize how you are being manipulated by forces at work to trick your brain before you make another rash purchase decision.
The author peppers the factoids, presented in a numbered list with examples, with humorous comments to keep the material from becoming too dry. In the end, he also includes helpful information on how your brain responds to external stimuli and how you can determine which of these are designed to trick you into behaviors that might not be in your best interest, like buying sale items that aren't as good a bargain as they appear.
It's interesting information presented in a format that is easy to digest. It's like watching the Discovery Channel, but without the interruption of commercials and annoying recaps. There's no redundancy here, and some of the points build on each other so that by the end, you will at the very least have some fun new trivia stored away and at best may even be able to recognize how you are being manipulated by forces at work to trick your brain before you make another rash purchase decision.
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