The New Science of Optimism and Pessimism
The New Science of Optimism and Pessimism
Looks at why some of us are optimists and some pessimists, and what we can do about it. Breakthroughs in neuroscience shows that our brains are more malleable than we ever imagined, and that cognitive behaviourial therapy can alter our brains' circuitry.
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In Rainy Brain, Sunny Brain, Fox describes a range of techniques—from traditional cognitive behavioural therapy to innovative cognitive bias retraining exercises—that can actually alter our brains’ circuitry, strengthening specific thought processes by exercising the neural systems that control them.
