📚 3 Books mentioned in "How Your Brain Rewires, Makes Decisions, and Shapes Your Reality | Dr. David Eagleman | EP 523" of The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

I was reading let me just the secret Incognito The Secret Lives of the brain and you spend a fair bit of time in that book talking about perception

Jordan Peterson mentions reading David Eagleman's book and notes that it discusses perception.

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what's interesting by the way I talked about this in the brain plasticity course um and in my book live wir what's interesting is that given who you are and what you've already packed down into your Machinery that determines what is relevant to you for the next thing

David Eagleman mentions his book 'Livewired' in the context of brain plasticity.

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um just as a you remember ulyses odys was coming home from the Trojan War and realized he was going to pass the island of the sirens and he wanted to hear the song of the sirens but he knew that like any mortal man uh he'd crash into the rocks and die so you remember what he did he filled his men's ears with beeswax he had them lash him to the Mast and he said no matter what I do just keep on sailing

David Eagleman recounts the story of Ulysses and the sirens from Homer's Odyssey to explain the concept of a 'Ulysses contract'.

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