Unstoppable Brain

The New Neuroscience That Frees Us from Failure, Eases Our Stress, and Creates Lasting Change

By: Kyra Bobinet

Narrated by: Kyra Bobinet MD MPH

We all want the power and motivation to create change in our lives. But how to get that in a stumbling dance of one step forward and two steps back? Negative emotions run rampant in many people's lives today; a reality that feels like a shrink wrap of suffering. Popular fallback solutions of performance-based goals and tools focus on extrinsic rewards like fame, wealth, or winning. But overuse of those rewards doesn't work for the long term and in fact weakens our confidence and motivation over time, leaving us vulnerable to failure and shame.

It doesn't have to be that way. Through three decades of researching and tracking such universal struggles to change our behavior, Dr. Kyra Bobinet unveils the way out, using novel neuroscience research on a compelling new brain area, the habenula. In this book, she reveals the habenulas powerful role in killing our motivation and causing anxiety and depression and offers a foolproof way to escape its clutches.

©2024 Kyra Bobinet, MD, MPH (P)2024 Kyra Bobinet, MD, MPH

Must Read Brain Science on Motivation and Personal Change

This is one of the books I've been looking for all my life. A practical guide that is research based that not only explains our personal struggles with behavioral modifications but provides actionable steps to make changes that last. The book is crystal clear about the mindsets that best support these efforts.

This book is all the.more unique because it's part memoir. A Doctor, cutting edge researcher shares first hand struggles with addiction, weight loss, exercise and some of life's greatest challenges. This personal insight motivated and inspired and brings a personal touch that is rare in this genre. She also draws upon clinical experience with many top level achievers. it feels like receiving a personal letter from the front lines of brain and behavioral research just when I needed it. This the kind of book that happens when someone is acting in their gift and has the bravery and courage to transparently share her challenges with her audience. I can't wait to learn more.

Thank you from a neuroscience geek!

This book is a wonderful, new look at how to better your life through neuroscience. It walked me through why things work for me for a while, then they totally don't, why I lie to my calorie tracker, why, even though I'm a dedicated hard worker, I give up so easily sometimes. And so importantly, Kyra gives a list of things that can go wrong, and strategies to deal with them. I so wish she had a pdf of the various "failure diseases" and how to avoid them.

Life-changing content

Great read,, useful information. The stories felt relevant and easily explained rather complex brain function. Even better where the strategies that you can employ to create life, you’ve always dreamed of.

Usable Information and so Inspiring!

I loved the real life examples, and the practical information that I'll be able to start implementing today! The author seems authentic and I'm excited to put her recommendations into practice! I can't wait to have the life changing experiences that she described, and to have an iterative mindset instead of a failure mindset. Everyone needs to read this book! I'm a teacher and there's so much that I learned that applies to my teaching practice too.

one of those books that changes your path

life changing - the awareness of failure and how to use it...vital to our understanding, whether a leader or on your own path, this is a key book to understand success and how to keep succeeding regardless of failures. in that the point - that failure is part of our success, and our reframing of it is needed to be unstoppable.