The Well-Tuned Brain
Neuroscience and the Life Well Lived

Listened in the car. much too much history and pretty unrelated personal stories for my taste, and not enough "what you can do to tune" (i.e. - remedy??) And the epilogue was wayyyyy too long.......more

I would give the first part of the book (Who Do you Think You Are?) a 2 and the second part (How to Live?) a 4, and thus a 3 overall. One of my biggest problems with Part I was Whybrow's use of the word "we." He frequently employs a generalized second person that obscures differences in social and e......more

Our brains are incredible but they're also glitchy. What I mean is there is a concept called vestigially which means that throughout evolution we developed phenotypes (in this case behaviors) that in one way or another helped us survive, our brains are still driven by instincts that were beneficial......more

The book revolves around a central theme of human instinctual reflexive thinking vs reflective conscious reasoning, and the tendency towards instant gratification vs long term gains; frequently relating to Adam Smith's concept of free market: the balancing between self interest and social sentiment.......more

Interesting content, but a lot of it is bogged down by the verbose writing of the author.......more