Chasing Life

Hank published two books that touch on Internet fame and the digital world. They are called An Absolutely Remarkable Thing and A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor.

It's called Of Sound Mind, How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World. But make no mistake, this isn't a dry academic text. It's beautifully written prose. She calls it her love letter to sound.

When I sent it off to the editor, I thought, you know, why did I even write this book? Everything that I say is so obvious. And yet the resounding comments that I get from people all over the place is I had no idea sound is so important.

There was a book by author Richard Louvre from the US called The Last Child in the Woods and he coined this term nature deficit disorder.

In fact, this notion of changing expectations was so transformative for David that he decided to write all about it. His new book is called The Expectation Effect, How Your Mindset Can Change Your World.

If you do want to learn more about this, you should check out David's new book. It's called The Expectation Effect, How Your Mindset Can Change Your World, and it comes out February 15th.

He just published this new book called The End of Trauma, How the New Science of Resilience is Changing How We Think About PTSD.

For the last 30 years, he's been trying to understand what predicts resilience, looking at everything from personality to immune function. And what he's found is that resilience is not about any particular personality trait or resource. He says it's largely about being willing to adapt.

I wrote about this in my new book called World War C. What I really wanted to focus on is how we can start eating healthier to help prepare us for a next potential pandemic.

Earlier this year, Dr. Nandy wrote a book called Care After Covid, what the pandemic revealed is broken in health care and how to reinvent it.

Renee is releasing a children's book in honor of her son's favorite pastime, reading. It's called The Miracle Workers, Boy vs. Beast.

In a magical land, a place filled with glee, lies a colorful garden with sugarplum trees. Little girls dance there and little boys race. Yes, miracles happen because of this place.

I don't work out for aesthetic reasons. For me, it's a mental and emotional process now more than anything else.

fitness is about being able to do things you couldn't do without it.

the brisk walk is a brilliant way.

it's going to improve our memory and our cognition and maybe our sex drive and your productivity and the glass is going to feel half full as opposed to half empty. That's what exercise does.

any form of movement, from walking around the block to a spontaneous dance party in the kitchen, can help make our bodies and our minds happy.

I don't work out for aesthetic reasons. For me, it's a mental and emotional process now more than anything else.

You talk about it in the fourth chapter of your book, move.

There's a children's book about you, which I just think is wonderful.

Pandemic was interesting because I had done some work at the Centers for Disease Control as a young reporter.

Eventually, it became a book called The End of October.

All I did was listen to the experts, read their papers, watch the tabletop exercises, and transfer that into fiction.

I wanted something that scientists would look at and say, yeah, that could happen. And those properties are totally believable.

I felt in some ways I had already done my pandemic story.

I early conceived a liking for and sought every opportunity to be in a position to relieve the suffering of others.

There's a great book written about this whole adventure by Gina Collada called Flu.

The book is called Leading Through a Pandemic and I was reading it last night and there's so many fascinating things there.

One of the things you talk about, New Orleans, they're planning for a hundred-year flood and they build these levees to essentially plan for a 10-year flood. Whereas in Holland, they're planning for a hundred-year flood and they say we're going to build the levees and the dams for a thousand-year flood. We want to be overprepared. We want to really make sure this doesn't affect us.

Back in 2017, he wrote a must-read book called Deadliest Enemy, Our War Against Killer Germs.

And as I read his book, Gray Matters, I realized that many people don't know a lot about what neurosurgeons do, what our lives are like, what motivates us.

You know, I felt that the public really didn't know a lot about what brain surgeons do.

But I wanted--there were so many stories that are in our field that we know very well about famous neurosurgeons that have been influential on us, famous people who've had brain surgery, what it's like to really do what we do, you know, and to make those decisions in the operating room where someone's future is really in your hands and you're responsible for their future day in and day out over a course of an entire career where you really get no break, and to put that in a way that the general public could really absorb and not be intimidated by the subject.

And it was really a passion project, and it was just so much fun because I was not only telling stories that I've always wanted to tell and put down in words, I've been talking about myself a little bit, but also researching things that I really didn't know that much about that I wanted to learn more about.

You've got to read the book. I read the book. I loved it.