Behave - The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

This is not a book you can casually read before bed’at least not for me. It’s filled with a wealth of information on neuroscience, psychology, studies conducted, papers published, and more. It was very interesting, and I learned so much from it. It took me a while to read, as I had many interruptions, which meant I had to go back and reread several chapters.

The book is about why we behave the way we do’what makes us congenial, aggressive, possessive, or averse. The author explores how several factors influence our behavior. He starts by explaining what happens at the very moment we display a particular behavior, and then explains, how what happens - a few minutes, hours, days, and all the way back to how events during adolescence, or even in the womb, could have contributed to many of the reactions we show today.

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Outliers - The Story of Success

I expected the book to describe the strategies of outliers ““ persons with qualities or abilities that set them apart from others. Much to my surprise and delight, the book approaches the concept of being an outlier differently. Malcolm Gladwell discusses the external factors and circumstances that lead an individual to become an outlier and how success is a result of a combination of individual effort, external opportunity, cultural factors and timing.

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