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there's a wonderful book actually, the name of the book is embarrassing always I don't know why for me to say it's a it's a by psychologist called Ken love last which is a psychoanalytic book about this dopamine serotonin system and the kind of sea sawing back and forth

And in 2020, I learned of Dr. Balcetis's book which was written for the general public entitled Clear Closer Better, How Successful People See The World.

And I read both the hard copy of the book and listened to the audio book and I absolutely loved the material as you'll learn directly from Dr. Balcetis today how people visualize a problem that is whether or not they think of a goal or a problem as residing at the top of a very steep hill or on the top of a shallower hill.

There is a good book called Yoga Body, which will destroy a lot of people, the Yoga practice, and it goes into how did we get to this yoga? It's a great experience of Swedish gymnastics and Mongolian contortionists and the western, the west affecting it and then the ancient practice, which was barely Asana-related, posture, position.

Dr. Conti is also the author of an exceptional book entitled Trauma, The Invisible Epidemic, How Trauma Works and How We Can Heal From It.

That book describes Trauma and its many features and many tools some of which we discuss on the podcast today.

I once heard it described in this I think it was a Augustine Burrow's book Dry where he used an alcohol he said that the first drink he had it felt like this magic elixir that that meshed with the physiology of his blood in the most seamless way and as I was reading this I thought oh my goodness first of all that's the most foreign experience for me in terms of alcohol and second gosh that must be terrible and you can but at the same time you could really understand why someone would be drawn to that so

If you haven't already read books such as surely your joking Mr. Feynman or what do you care what other people think I encourage you to do so

And a previous book entitled Healthy Brain Happy Life, A Personal Program to Activate Your Brain and Do Everything Better.

Actually Tim Ferris I should say the great Tim Ferris because I do have great respect for the fact that he seems to be about 10 years ahead of everything in terms of nutrition and skill learning and things that sort many of the things that he predicted in his books. The four hour body and the four hour chef actually turned out to be true based on scientific data some of which only exists in the animal models but now also some predictions that played out to be true in both the animal models and the human models so I think Tim certainly deserves a hat tip for the fact that he experimented with these methods and reported his experiences with those methods and that now some of them many of them have been validated by what I perceive to be quality science.

Dr. Saunenberg co-runs his laboratory with his spouse, Dr. Erica Saunenberg and together they've also written a terrific and highly informative book called The Good Gut taking control of your weight, your mood and your long term health.

And it's one of the reasons I got into this business.

Well, I worked with him in a MacArthur Mind Body Network for many years.

There's a great book called "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" about a young man who had this happen to him and he describes his life and it's a real testament to the human condition that he does this it's a remarkable book it's a short book.

They're talking about the various ways that habits form in the nervous system and they mention with each repetition of a habit small changes occur in the cognitive and neural mechanisms associated associated with procedural memory.

Dick Masland had a good book. I forget the title at the moment...but about vision and how nervous systems work, a pretty accessible book for the general public.

I'm remembering Dick's book is called 'We Know It When We See It'.

In addition to publishing dozens of landmark scientific studies, Dr. Buss has authored many important books. A few of those include The Evolution of Desire and why women have sex.

And then even more broadly I have a textbook called Evolutionary Psychology the new science of the mind which is in its sixth edition right now and it's the most widely used textbook in Evolutionary Psychology around North America and Europe and actually it's been translated even into Arabic and other countries so that deals somewhat with mating but also deals with survival problems are evolved fears and phobias issues about kin and family extended family friendships social hierarchies status hierarchies warfare and other topics.

If you're interested in learning more about time perception, I'd like to point you to a really excellent book called Your Brain Is a Time Machine, the Neuroscience and Physics of Time.

The book was written by Professor Dr. Dean Buonomano, who's a professor at UCLA and a world expert in the neuroscience and physics of time.

I just finished for the third time all of her sacks is autobiography which is marvelous and and I highly recommend to people he certainly took a lot of drugs not as part of his professional role

It's an absolutely fabulous book. I have no business relationship to them. I did help them get in contact with some color vision scientists when they reached out to me.

And you can know that all the information in the book was vetted by excellent color vision scientists. It's a really wonderful and beautiful book.

The illustrations are beautiful. If you're somebody who's interested in design or art, or you're just curious about the science of color, it's a terrific book, I highly recommend it.

If you'd like to read more about this, there's a great review entitled Taste Perception from the Tongue to the Testes, although they do also talk about the ovaries.

Why they didn't include that in the title is I think a reflection of the sort of bias of the author.

The author, not incidentally, is Feng Li, last name L-I, is a very interesting paper published in Molecular Human Reproduction.