• Super Brain

  • Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness, and Spiritual Well-Being
  • By: Rudolph E. Tanzi, Deepak Chopra
  • Narrated by: Shishir Kurup
  • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (1,229 ratings)

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Super Brain

By: Rudolph E. Tanzi,Deepak Chopra
Narrated by: Shishir Kurup
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Publisher's summary

A manual for relating to the brain in a revolutionary new way, Super Brain explains how to use your brain as a gateway for achieving health, happiness, and spiritual growth. The authors are two pioneers: best-selling author and physician Deepak Chopra and Harvard Medical School professor Rudolph E. Tanzi, one of the world's foremost experts on the causes of Alzheimer’s. They have merged their wisdom and expertise for a bold new understanding of the “three-pound universe” and its untapped potential.

In contrast to the “baseline brain” that fulfills the tasks of everyday life, Chopra and Tanzi propose that, through a person’s increased self-awareness and conscious intention, the brain can be taught to reach far beyond its present limitations. “We are living in a golden age for brain research, but is this a golden age for your brain?” they ask.

Super Brain explains how it can be, by combining cutting-edge research and spiritual insights, demolishing the five most widespread myths about the brain that limit your potential, and then showing you methods to:

  • Use your brain instead of letting it use you
  • Create the ideal lifestyle for a healthy brain
  • Reduce the risks of aging
  • Promote happiness and well-being through the mind-body connection
  • Access the enlightened brain, the gateway to freedom and bliss
  • Overcome the most common challenges, such as memory loss, depression, anxiety, and obesity

Your brain is capable of incredible healing and constant reshaping. Through a new relationship with your brain you can transform your life. In Super Brain, Chopra and Tanzi guide you on a fascinating journey that envisions a leap in human evolution. The brain is not just the greatest gift that Nature has given us. It’s the gateway to an unlimited future that you can begin to live today.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2012 Deepak Chopra and Rudolph E. Tanzi (P)2012 Random House

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I expected a lot from this book, it came through

I took away a couple of important 'big ideas' that I had long suspected but couldn't understand because I didn't have the reference point I needed. The most important point for me was how to know when to look for your own hidden agenda in situations. That is going to be so helpful. The book is also encouraging by making change seem possible, and failure understandable and even part of the process of growth.
I feel positive and strong and capable and inspired after listening to this book. I will be playing this one frequently. Liberation seems not only possible, but inescapable. If you even faintly suspect you might like this subject matter, just do it, buy it, it's a fabulous book.

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I wish the the title was different

If you could sum up Super Brain in three words, what would they be?

Simple, Direct, Practical.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Narration is excellent

Which scene was your favorite?

The 2nd half

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes

Any additional comments?

I will listen to this again for the practical advice of changing behavior by raising awareness. Like life which evolves even if one chooses to be listless, this book helps simplify choices and conflicts. Why do we keep doing the same thing? Listening to this book was like spending time with to a good friend. NOT judging yet guiding. The timing for me was good. Thanksgiving Day, Americans often share, reflect and appreciate. Day after, off to the races getting deals and pushing away. Strange beings we humans.

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Not a manual to having a super brain

The book provides a lot of information about how the brain works and amazing stories about how people recovered from brain injuries. Then it covered various topics like anxiety, depression, over eating, god, and on and on. It was like listening to a sermon and the action for you to do after each topic is you control your mind and you take small steps to go from a bad state to a good state. The only takeaway I got from this book is that we shouldn't underestimate the ability of the brain. As we get older, we commonly use the phrases "having a senior moment" or "my mind isn't what it used to be." The brain is a muscle. We have to eat healthy, exercise, and use the brain constantly to keep in good shape.

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Just awesome to know the ability of the brain!

If you could sum up Super Brain in three words, what would they be?

I have been studying and practice the Primordial Sound Meditation about 4 years. This book gives me more solid affirmation to meditation practice for inner peace and health. It also gives me more positive feeling and thoughts toward the recovery of my past illness. It is one my great text books now.

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Bringing An Interesting Concept To Actual Thinking

Would you consider the audio edition of Super Brain to be better than the print version?

In my view, being partially blind, I think that absorbing the content of this very interesting book would be more advantageous in the audio form. Even if I had perfect vision by using the audio version the retention of the material would be much better by attending to the subconscious and different parts of the brain than regular visual reading.

What other book might you compare Super Brain to and why?

The concept of the subject matter really sets this book from others.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yeah, the interesting content kept me glued for hours. If I had the time, one sitting would be more optimal to my taste.

Any additional comments?

Pretty interesting book. It got me thinking. I would suggest this book in audio form to a lot of people and maybe they would start thinking too.

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Great premise, bad follow through

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

Spent too much time running down theories of people with whom they disagree (Richard Dawkins, for example) and trying to convince me that God exists. Would have been a much better book without that. And didn't need it either, would have been perfectly fine without it.

Would you listen to another book narrated by Shishir Kurup?

He was a good narrator.

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very interesting book!

What did you love best about Super Brain?

Very well organized; covered a lot of ground with regards to neuroscience and integration of the mind/body connection

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A must read for everyone

If you could sum up Super Brain in three words, what would they be?

awesome, thought provoking

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Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes

Any additional comments?

Probably the best audio book I ever listened to. It can get pretty technical at times, but I believe its a must read for everyone (at any age).

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Really interesting topic

A lot of information is packed in this book and it is a lot to digest - but very interesting for anyone entertained by mind-body connection and the dawning recognition of western medicine!

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If you could sum up Super Brain in three words, what would they be?

Performance enhancing prose

Who was your favorite character and why?

Deepak. Clear and articulate outlines of thought and how to best utilize.

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Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

It made me think...differently. That's good.

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