Mozart's Brain and the Fighter Pilot

Unleashing Your Brain's Potential

By: Richard M. Restak

Narrated by: Richard M. Restak

Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins

Publisher's summary

In Mozart's Brain and the Fighter Pilot, eminent neuropsychiatrist and best-selling author Richard Restak, M.D., combines the latest research in neurology and psychology to show us how to get our brain up to speed for managing every aspect of our busy lives.

Everything we think and everything we choose to do alters our brain and fundamentally changes who we are, a process that continues until the end of our lives. Few people think of the brain as being susceptible to change in its actual structure, but in fact we can pre-select the kind of brain we will have by continually exposing ourselves to rich and varied life experiences. Unlike other organs that eventually wear out with repeated and sustained use, the brain actually improves the more we challenge it.

Think of Restak as a personal trainer for your brain - he will help you assess your mental strengths and weaknesses, and set you to thinking about the world and the people around you in a new light, providing you with improved and varied skills and capabilities. From interacting with colleagues to recognizing your own psychological makeup, from understanding the way you see something to why you're looking at it in the first place, from explaining the cause of panic attacks to warding off performance anxiety, this book will tell you the whys and hows of the brain's workings.

Packed with practical advice and fascinating examples drawn from history, literature, and science, Mozart's Brain and the Fighter Pilot provides 28 informative and realistic steps that we can all take to improve our brainpower.

©2001 Richard M. Restak, M.D.
(P)2002 Random House, Inc.

Critic reviews

"Think of Mozart's Brain as an exercise video for one's mental faculties." (Booklist)

what a complete waste of time

This idiot wastes the first 4 chapters before he gets to the point. This guy likes to hear the sound of his own voice. People who read books like this are not interested in Neurology lessons.

Most Unhelpful

Boring, condescending, and old. The "helpful tips to expand your brain power" (my words) might as well have been taken from between the covers of magazines found at the supermarket checkout. I would much have preferred a real look at Mozart's brain, I at least could have learned something. There was really nothing new here - don't know what all the hullaballoo was about.

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As a researcher in the field of brain plasticity I found Restak's book refreshing and cleverly written. Bringing neuroscience can be a daunting task but Restak makes it sound so smooth!

Informative but not practical

Informative but not practical

Stick with it.

I loved this book, it changed my mind about what is "boring". I'm begining to see the value, and joy of exercising my brain. I wouldn't have "gotten it" in small chunks. Listen to the whole thing in 1 or 2 sittings to get the most out of it. The references to other literary work opened some doors I didn't know needed to be opened, for me. I'm glad I got this book.

Too academic and monotonal

The author's techniques may exercise the brain, but this tape doesn't. The montone voice and the dry, academic writing style almost put me to sleep. I didn't get past the opening chapters on the neurochemistry of the brain.

Overall

There are some assumption which very good, they are not the only way.
It is a very interesting and informative book. It is worth the read!

definitely deserves being read

28 suggestions on how to improve your brain doing one a week could get me to be better after the covid quarantine

Great information to have on the brain function

great insight into how the brain functions. This can lead to optimization of performance in many areas

Fine book

Thought provoking and challenging