Meditation – DaneCobain.com

Title: Calm

Author: Tim Parks

Type: Non-Fiction

Page Count/Review Word Count: 106

Rating: 4.5/5

This Vintage Mini Modern is essentially a selection of excerpts from Teach Us to Sit Still, in which Parks recounts how he went from a lifelong skeptic to reasonably well accomplished at meditation through his experiences at several retreats.

I mostly liked that it was super honest and that I could relate to it. I also highlighted some great quotes, like, “The person who perceives deeply that life is empty, must be morally admirable otherwise he could never have arrived at the concentration required to grasp this.”

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Dr. Jenny Brockis – Future Brain | Review

Title: Future Brain

Author: Dr. Jenny Brockis

Type: Non-Fiction

Page Count/Review Word Count: 244

Rating: 3.5/5

Dr. Jenny Brockis – Future Brain

I picked up this book because I’ve been asked to read and review it for a client, but I was pleasantly surprised by its contents, even if it did drag for a little while. I think part of the problem is that Brockis separates the book into twelve key areas and gives each of those areas a chapter, when sometimes there just isn’t enough content to fill them up.

Still, if you want to learn more about how to be your best, especially with the backing of a medical practitioner and a number of authoritative studies, this book is a pretty good one for you to check out. I was actually quite impressed by how thorough the medical side of the research was, to the point at which I even gave it the time of day when it talked about stuff like meditation and mindfulness even though I’ve historically been a skeptic. Perhaps part of that is because of a friend of mine is a bit of a hippie and she’s been starting to show me how it can all help out in practice.

If you only read one or two business books per year then don’t bother with this one, but it’s certainly worth picking up if you just can’t get enough and you’re constantly looking for an extra edge. So there’s that.