Skip (David) Everling > Recent Status Updates

Similar to Oliver Sacks' books but lacking quite the same panache and insight that Sacks seems to effortlessly deploy in description. Nonetheless, this book did a good job of combining anecdotes and clinical studies that support the book's title premise, the general idea of heretofore unrealized neuroplasticity. Makes you wonder how you could change. Likewise it sometimes adopts the tone of a self-help book.

The long-term perspective naturally lends itself to the spiritual tone that Pollan sometimes takes on when describing our relationship to plants.

I wish this book had Steven Pinker's commentary to put some of the conclusions in perspective. The anecdotes that Doidge is telling are definitely intriguing but I also think at times he's too eager to generalize conclusions after relaying a diagnosis.

Cannabis chapter was informative, but I didn't much care for Pollan's own wax poetic on it.

Good short course on linguistics. I liked the dialect analysis at the end of the course.

Nice overview of linguistics in the first half. I'm happy he put that broad review before the chronological history from Germanic to Modern English since I'm interested in language broadly.

Nice overview of linguistics in the first half. I'm happy he put that broad review before the chronological history from Germanic to Modern English since I'm interested in language broadly.

Better than college! In that I like being able to rewind the teacher or listen to many lectures at a time if I'm in the mood for more.

High quality audiobook: multiple cast (apropos kid narrator) and even the occasional backdrop of sound effects.

Reading and rereading and will be reading. Profound reflections on time and memory and perception, heady stuff!

A pretty good broad overview of the most pervasive ideas in psychology. A series of book synopses tied loosely tied together but well differentiated by the author, who clearly wrote this book with an emphasis on each book's most unique contribution. I think this high-level but discerning summarizing adds value to this book as a collection since most of the books and authors covered overlap in content.

Audiobook