Sort Your Brain Out
Over the past few weeks I’ve been contributing to a public relations campaign to help people understand what they can do to gain all the benefits of using smartphones, while dodging the pitfalls associated with overuse.
It always comes as a shock to the system when I realise that a friend or family member has firmly-held beliefs about a superstition or conspiracy theory, despite the absence of any strong evidence to support it, so I thought I’d have a dig around in the scientific literature that has sought to explain these tendencies.
I genuinely believe that if this book were to be put on every school curriculum, the world would be a better place. A truly excellent, fast-paced and invaluable read.
This year I’ve been tweeting about brain-related breakthroughs in the realms of neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry and AI – here’s the lot…
What I like most about this book is that, admittedly with a fair degree of repetition, it makes one point clear and true – if you’ve developed considerable expertise then you can make sound judgements in the blink of an eye, but if you haven’t then your instincts may well misguide you; leading to potentially catastrophic consequences.