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By: Have You Logged Your 10,000 Hours Yet? « beyond the method

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By: Nancy Jane Moore

Nancy Jane Moore — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 19:20:51 +0000

I suspect Norris’s comment above is more a reaction to the cover of the book than the material in it. The book looks like classic self help. However, the summaries and reviews suggest that it is, in fact, providing us with an overview of research and that it isn’t going to give us ten tips for changing our brains.

Of course, self help sells better than science. And publishers tend to be capitalists, at least when it comes to selling books.

By: norris

norris — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:16:23 +0000

I don’t know about this. It sounds like yet another way to spin science into the a non-scientific, non-philosophical–hence, non-phenomenological–study of the mind. In other words, this book will end up being the next best-seller in the “Self Help” sections in bookstores nationwide.

Great marketing pitch, “You *can* change your mind.”

very Capitalist. Ayn Rand would be pleased.

-gn