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The Emotional Life of Your Brain
- How Its Unique Patterns Affect the Way You Think, Feel, and Live - and How You Can Change Them
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
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Why are some people so quick to recover from a setback while others wallow in despair? Why are some people so highly attuned to others that they seem psychic, while other people put both feet in it over and over again? Why are some people always up and others always down?
In this hotly anticipated book, award-winning, pioneering neuroscientist Richard J. Davidson answers these questions by offering an entirely new model of our emotions - their origins, their power, and their malleability.
Davidson has discovered that each of us is composed of six basic “Emotional Styles”: Resilience, Outlook, Social Intuition, Self-Awareness, Sensitivity to Context, and Attention. Our own personal emotional fingerprint results from where on the continuum of each style we fall. He explains the patterns of brain activity that underlie each style in order to give us a new model of the emotional brain, one that will even go so far as to affect the way we treat conditions like autism and depression.
And, finally, he provides strategies we can use to determine our own Emotional Style and to change our own brains and emotions - if that is what we want to do. Written with best-selling author Sharon Begley, this original and exciting book gives us a new and useful way to look at ourselves, develop a sense of well-being, and live more meaningful lives.Listeners also enjoyed...
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It is the tenth anniversary since the first publication of Daniel Goleman's groundbreaking bestseller, Emotional Intelligence, which maps the territory where IQ meets EQ, where we apply what we know to how we live. Spending over a year on the New York Times bestseller list, Emotional Intelligence provided the evidence for what many successful people already knew: being smart isn't just a matter of mastering facts; it's a matter of mastering your own emotions and understanding the emotions of the people around you.
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Dear Publishers . . .
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There's a revolution taking place that most businesses are still unaware of. The understanding of how our brains work has radically shifted, exploding long-held myths about our everyday cognitive performance and fundamentally changing the way we engage and succeed in the workplace. Combining their expertise in both neuropsychology and management consulting, neuropsychologist Friederike Fabritius and leadership expert Dr. Hans W. Hagemann present simple yet powerful strategies.
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Understand your brain for a better life!
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Both our conscious and more deeply embedded fears act as saboteurs in our lives, influencing us to make "safe" choices and limiting our ability to live happy, fulfilling lives. But imagine if you could learn how to take control of your brain’s instinctive response to danger. In Life Unlocked, Harvard-trained psychiatrist Dr. Srinivasan Pillay draws from cutting-edge research in neuroscience to show you how to do just this: to move past fear and unlock the potential of your life.
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Consciousness is our gateway to experience: it enables us to recognize Van Gogh’s starry skies, be enraptured by Beethoven’s Fifth, and stand in awe of a snowcapped mountain. Yet consciousness is subjective, personal, and famously difficult to examine: philosophers have for centuries declared this mental entity so mysterious as to be impenetrable to science. In The Ravenous Brain, neuroscientist Daniel Bor departs sharply from this historical view, and proposes a new model for how consciousness works.
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Effectively demystifies consciousness
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- ABart
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Excellent!
Well worth the time to listen. Both the writing and the narrator's portrayal were superb.
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- Christopher
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Superb educational material!!!!
my instructor for a social worker program assign chapter 3 to the class. after taking the assessments I decided to read the entire book this is a book that I have recommended to several of my friends and other professionals
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- Vita Pires, Ph.D.
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Really Wish Ritchie Davidson Was the Narrator
If you could sum up The Emotional Life of Your Brain in three words, what would they be?
interesting, thought provoking
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The narrator was flat and his voice really detracted from being able to stick with this fascinating material.
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I've heard Davidson many times and he is a dynamic & interesting speaker. Too bad the narration of this detracts so much from the material. I'm slogging through it...but wow, the difference between this and say "Stumbling on Happiness" (narrated brilliantly by the author) is astounding. Audible..please try to get more authors to read their own books!
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- Jeannie
- 12-31-12
Great book.
Where does The Emotional Life of Your Brain rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
It is the best audiobook that I have listened to. I have a rare neurological eye disorder that makes it difficult for me to read much. My husband had "natural reader" on my computer and it was like having a robot read to you and I mean a robot who did not pronounce words correctly, etc. This new audible book is like being read to by a human.
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- dominic
- 08-27-20
Fantastic Book!
This book is eye opening. It can be dual at times for some because of the detailed research methods shared, but besides that the doctor does a great job tell how his research came to be in a very entertaining way.
Side note the author of this book is the scientist that has conducted most of the research studies referenced frequently in personal development and management books.
Hear his direct interpretation of the finding in the experiments he invited and conducted gives a deeper insights to his findings.
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- Robert
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Narrator makes it hard to listen to
Would you try another book from Richard J. Davidson and Sharon Begley and/or Arthur Morey?
The book is interesting, but the tone and rhythm of the narrator's voice makes it impossible to listen to. The narrator sounds like he has been chased and wants to spit out the message as fast as he can. I tried many times to get used to his tone and speed but gave up. When you drive and listen to this book, you will get nothing. In comparison, if you listen to a sample of the book
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- ANDRÉ
- 10-05-13
Some good insights, too many personal anecdotes
Overall I liked the listening, especially the insights about emotional psychology. The author is a great scientist, did some good discoveries, and was courageous embracing the meditation in a time that no one believed in it. But there are some gaps in the story, and many times it was boring and did not grasp me. He tells too many anecdotes about the people he knows, as he was bragging, and lost the focus, the essence of the book.
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- Carolina
- 07-16-20
Must be read.
Excelente book, with great content, history and facts. Would be great if the test are available.
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- Juan
- 11-03-12
Could've been better...
Where does The Emotional Life of Your Brain rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
Middle/average.
Would you be willing to try another book from Richard J. Davidson and Sharon Begley ? Why or why not?
Depends on the narrator.
Would you listen to another book narrated by Arthur Morey?
Dull. Sucked the life out of the book.
What’s an idea from the book that you will remember?
The surveys and how much research went into the surveys/discoveries.
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- ILAHMACHE
- 11-13-18
Informative
If you want to know some of the background of how neuroscience has evolved then you're in for a treat. Dr. Richard Davidson is undoubtedly brilliant and it shows in the content. Narrator was a little dry but not bad and the story is somewhat hard to follow if you aren't used to scientific jargon but I liked it so much I bought the hard copy.
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