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Title: Mozart's Brain and the Fighter Pilot : Unleashing Your Brain's Potential by M.D. Richard Restak ISBN: 0-609-81005-7 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 22 October, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (18 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Not for Beginners or Neurosurgeons, Good Intermediate Read.
Comment: Among the books about improving your thinking, this book takes you one step further. This is not just an explanation of thinking skills but an overview of the interactions among the various parts of the brain. It includes suggestions for general brain health as well as activities that involve multiple areas of the brain, which in turn form new neuro connections.The second half of the title "Unleashing Your Brain's Potential" is more appropriate for the content of this book.
N. Illing, author of SPARKS Ignite Imagination, an informational activity book for stretching the imagination.
Rating: 3
Summary: Interesting concepts, tedious delivery
Comment: Mozart's Brain and The Fighter Pilot is an interesting book about how the brain works, which parts of the brain control different activities, and what exercises you might conduct to exercise your brain. Unfortunately, the writing straddles between the author's academic background and what might be interesting to the average reader. The end result is a book that seems like random, rambling recollections and anecdoates of a smart man, but lazily written. I was never sure if his assertions were backed by facts or if they were just speculation on his part.
Examples of this mixed style:
- Very prescriptive statements: "you should play chess if you want to keep a sharp mind"; "the only way to..."; and a proclivity for great books as being the only books worth reading
- The exercises he suggested are rarely validated by experimental proof.
- Offers specifics where none are needed - "If you are over 35 and you pull your skin back towards your face you will look 10 years younger."
As a last note, I felt the title was misleading. I was looking for more detailed anecdotes about how various types of people's brains worked. The example of Mozart, however, barely covered two pages.
Enjoyable, entertaining, but also frustrating.
Rating: 3
Summary: I Wanted to be Wowed......
Comment: and in this case, I wasn't. The material wasn't bad... but it was missing
that "edge" that sets apart exceptional books from unexceptional
books.
What was the largest weakness for me was an inconsistency between
the chapters: some were filled to the brim with useful, workable
suggestions and ideas and others left me wondering, "Wait, what
was the intended suggestion for that chapter?"
Perhaps the confusion was part of Restak's intent... to get the
reader really applying our newly-stretched brainpower?
*Shrug* Just not sure.... there is some decent information here
which I will more than likely use and reuse, which is why the
ranking is 4 stars rather than 3.
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Title: The New Brain : How the Modern Age Is Rewiring Your Mind by Richard Restak ISBN: 1579545017 Publisher: Rodale Press Pub. Date: 23 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Secret Life of the Brain by Richard, M. D. Restak, David Grubin ISBN: 0309074355 Publisher: Joseph Henry Press Pub. Date: 15 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Brain Has a Mind of Its Own : Insights from a Practicing Neurologist by M.D. Richard Restak ISBN: 0517880806 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 13 April, 1993 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Brain Longevity: The Breakthrough Medical Program that Improves Your Mind and Memory by Dharma Singh Khalsa, Cameron Stauth ISBN: 0446673730 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 06 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Building Mental Muscle : Conditioning Exercises for the Six Intelligence Zones by David Gamon, Allen D. Bragdon ISBN: 0916410625 Publisher: Allen D. Bragdon Pub. Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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