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In this book we tell the story of the new science of children’s minds.
Alison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff, • The Scientist In The Crib: Minds, Brains, And How Children Learn
The secret is to read chapter introductions and conclusions carefully, and then skim everything else.
Cal Newport • How to Win at College: Surprising Secrets for Success from the Country's Top Students
Richard J. Haier • The Neuroscience of Intelligence (Cambridge Fundamentals of Neuroscience in Psychology)
In Transformations of Consciousness, Harvard psychologist Jack Engler reports a study of Dipama and other advanced meditators. He found a degree of mental health and well-being that was the most remarkable ever seen by any scientists.
Jack Kornfield • The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West
There is now a large literature on the psychological benefits of meditation. Different techniques produce long-lasting changes in attention, emotion, cognition, and pain perception, and these correlate with both structural and functional changes in the brain.
Sam Harris • Waking Up: Searching for Spirituality Without Religion
A recent study in Psychological Research discovered that a group who walked freely with their awareness on the open world scored significantly higher in a creativity and idea test than people who walked while focusing on their phones. Another study found that children who walked for twenty minutes improved their concentration and ability to underst
... See moreMichael Easter • Scarcity Brain
Our sense of who we are depends, in significant part, on our memories. And yet they’re not to be trusted.
Will Storr • The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better
