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Synaptic Self
by Joseph LeDoux
You are your synapses: how learning and memory wire personality. LeDoux's broader book after The Emotional Brain.
Read it if…
you want the neuroscience of personality.
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Skip it if…
you want self-help.
Try instead: Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human →
Three things you will actually use
- Synapses store you.
- Experience rewires.
- Self is plastic.
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Read the chapter on the emotional brain revisited.
Our verdict
LeDoux's synapses.
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