The Wisdom Paradox

How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger as Your Brain Grows Older

Autori

• Elkhonon Goldberg

Parametri

• 360 pagine
• 13 ore di lettura

• Filosofia
• Motivazione e auto-aiuto
• Psicologia
• Saggistica
• Scienza

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In a provocative reassessment of the conventional scientific wisdom, world-renowned neuropsychologist Elkhonon Goldberg brings together cutting-edge findings with insights gleaned from years of clinical practice to argue that despite certain cognitive losses, the engaged, mature brain can make effective decisions at more intuitive levels. He terms this late-emerging mental strength "wisdom," an integration of thought and analysis based on accumulated experience." "Goldberg delves into the mind's mechanisms, outlining how the elegant structures of the brain develop and change over the course of a lifetime as they work increasingly in concert.

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2005