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Norwegian Wood Publisher: Vintage
Haruki Murakami
The Thief
Fuminori Nakamura
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Cheryl Strayed
My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla, David Major, Electrical Experimenter magazine
My Inventions
Nikola Tesla
Die Trying
Lee Child
Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Oprah's Book Club 2.0)
Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation - Daniel J. Siegel

"the new science of personal transformation"... Really...! or did I totally miss it?
All I heard was "hand model of the brain" or "full body scan" and occasionally "mindfulness(meditation)". Where the hell is the generic(even remotely) concept that will "tranform" a person?

First half of the book did not make any sense to me w.r.t mindsight, or give me any intuitive information which other books of the same genre don't cover. Then the author gets into his subjects and almost all of the patients miraculously achieve the state of "mindsight", so I assume, during the full body scan.

Then at some point vaguely he mentions midfulness is the answer... huh. How do I even begin to compare it with "The Brain That Changes Itself" by Norman Doidge. Believe me, if you have read "The Brain That Changes Itself" or any books of Thich Nhat Hanh for that matter, and expecting to get some useful informaion out of the "mindsight" then you would want to stay the hell away from this book.

Surprisingly, details of a session with one of his subjects addressed similar issue that I face sometimes and he elaborated the route cause, but did not give a sensible solution of course...