Super Brain

I recently wrote in my article The Person Comes First, that I try to read as many recommended books and resources as I can as I feel that as someone else has taken the time to think of me the least I can do is respect them by reading what they’ve recommended.

Not everything I read gets beyond the first chapter because it just doesn’t appeal to me. 

On the Edith Ellen Foundation Facebook page recently a follower wrote of me “according to your present knowledge and belief of limitation, nothing can be done”.

This person doesn’t know me, we’ve never met yet they felt I had a “belief of limitation”.

This is defined as:

‘A limiting belief is a false belief that a person acquires as a result of making an incorrect conclusion about something in life. For example, a person could acquire a limiting belief about his ability to succeed as soon as he fails.’

This person suggested to me the book “Super Brain" written by Dr Deepak Chopra and Dr Richard Tanzl. 

So, I downloaded it to Kindle and have read through pretty much all of it. It is quite literally a day and a half I will never get back...

Dr Tanzl is a specialist dealing with how to help dementia sufferers improve their lives and also to show people what factors help normal people have less likelihood of developing dementia.

Dr Deepak Chopra is an American author, public speaker, alternative medicine advocate, and a prominent figure in the New Age movement and has become one of the best-known figures in alternative medicine.

This book could have been great it had all the makings of a good read, but it’s not a structured read very higgledy piggledy. A book with an identity crisis.

If you are not into neuroscience just skip straight to part 3. As it is even from here it can get quite baffling and overwhelming and then you’ll maybe make it to the chapter Making God Real.

It was hard to understand what this book was, sometimes it felt like I was reading a self-help book the next a scientific journal it wrote of neurons, synapses, neuroplasticity and then it inter-meshed with Spirituality.

This is not a book about improving your brain. It's a self-help book with all the platitudes and clichés of that genre.

If I worked in a library I wouldn’t know where to place this book it just didn’t have a particular genre.