At the cost of some emotional budget burn sympathising with Dean Burnett, you will get neuroscience musings on a bit wide set of subjects collectively touching on our emotional systems/drivers. Ik had gehoopt dat er ook soms tips in zouden staan over hoe je met bepaalde emoties om kunt gaan, maar dit was niet echt het geval. Written during lockdown after a personal loss Burnett’s own emotional journey and struggle to understand what he was (and still is) feeling infuses the book with personality and insight. This is a very informative book about how the brain generates emotion and how it is both unpredictable and functional in how we think and act. My one real quibble with it is that I would have preferred him not to describe his previous employment in the anatomy department as being awful, repeatedly.

Social media gives everyone a platform to express themselves and share moments with those dear to us. For those who are interested in emotion, there's absolutely nothing new or presented in a unique way. I do feel mean for not giving this book a full 5 star rating, but I am putting the emotion to one side for the moment.Suffering from grief of losing his father in the pandemic of COVID, this neuroscientist describes how his emotions interacted with the world of that time to show me that while they weren't necessarily comfortable they did allow him to survive the blows that came his way.

Burnett sought to comprehend the fundamentals of emotions, commencing with the most basic query: what is an emotion? The author’s previous work has been full of his dry sense of humour and whilst that is present here (frequently in the footnotes) what really brings this book to life is how much of himself he puts into it. This comment made me more angry than anything else in this book and took my rating from a two-star to a one-star. His previous books, The Idiot Brain and The Happy Brain , were international bestsellers published in over twenty-five countries.Degene die het boek vertaald heeft, maakte vaak spelfouten wat betreft woorden in enkelvoud/meervoud. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. It goes on to examine how pleasure and pain tread a fine line (one reason, Burnett suggests, why 50 Shades Of Grey was so popular – and so badly written), in the process expelling various myths around BDSM practises. But the internet also insulates us from dissenting opinions and allows us to find people that agree with us, no matter what it may be. Burnett questions all empathetic notions and posits that everything you consider unique about yourself are chemical processes that happen to each individual.