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“There’s just something about you. Something I feel about you. I don’t know how to describe it, but it’s a powerful thing…” “What are you saying?” “I’m just saying that … pretty much every time I see you, all I want to do is to put my arms around you.”
It’s not the easy moments that define who we are. It’s the hard ones.
I do it because I believe that human connection is the only thing that will save us. I do it because I believe we learn empathy when we listen to other people’s stories and feel their pain with them. I do it because I know for certain that our world has an empathy problem with women, and this is one brave thing I can do to help fix it.
Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love Helen Fisher This fascinating nonfiction read looks at the role of romantic love in human life. Researcher Helen Fisher put people in love in brain scanners and watched what happened when they looked at photos of their partners. The scans showed activity in the oldest parts of the brain—and Fisher takes a long, thoughtful look at what this means about who we are and the importance of love in our lives.
The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human Jonathan Gottschall This fascinating book tries to get at the role of storytelling in human life and describes stories as “the last bastion of magic.” For anyone who’s interested in how stories work and why they’re so powerful, it’s a great read.
Why Marriages Succeed or Fail: And How You Can Make Yours Last John Gottman, Ph.D. One of the reasons the rookie is so dreamy, to me at least, is that he really appreciates Cassie. John Gottman is a researcher who looks at what marriages need to thrive, and one of the many things he talks about is creating a “culture of appreciation” in a relationship—where partners focus on and savor the things about each other that they love. I thought about this book when I was writing the rookie. I wanted him to be an absolute genius at the act of appreciation—for Cassie’s sake, if nothing else.
