A friend of mine who's into psychology recommended the book The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine, and I recently finished it. It was nice that the audio version was read by the author, and I found it to be a nice overview of the anatomy of the female brain and the resulting psychological implications. I've heard from other experts that some of the book's claims may not be 100% scientifically validated, so I took a lot of it with a grain of salt. I thought its perspective and focus on the role of hormones in guiding female behavior was really interesting nonetheless.
I'm always interested in learning more about people different than me, and I often find that women are so hard to understand and so different from us men. So books like these are always helpful in giving me new ways to understand the other half of the population. Given the strong role of hormes that the book focuses on, I've thought about the usefulness to society of a visual indicator so that both women and the men they interact with know what day in a woman's cycle she is currently on (and have it be colored red if it's a "keep away" day and or green if it's a "happy" day). Yes, this is probably a somewhat farfetched idea, but the more we can understand about each other's context or mood, the better we can talk and negotiate with each other. My notes on the book are below. Intro
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(Sorry, fell behind on class notes blogging. Trying to catch up now!)
(Reading notes above, class notes from guest speaker from Budweiser marketing below) The Global Brand CEO
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Sorry, been away from the blog for a while (been super busy IRL). I did read a wonderful book a while ago that I wanted to post my notes on. It was A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron. I knew I had to read it simply from the cover (I think the dog shown is my favorite breed: Neapolitan Mastiff); in this case, I truly judged the book by its cover. It was a tear-jerking story told from the perspective of a dog (it's subtitle is "a novel for humans"). I really liked how changing the storyteller to a dog allowed the author to make some interesting commentary on our behavior as human beings. This was the second book I've read that was "written" by a dog (the first one was The Art of Racing in the Rain. I liked this book just as much. The interesting twist of this book was how the same dog "soul" was reincarnated from "life" to "life" and learned lessons along the way that allowed it to play a pivotal role in saving people's lives and bringing people to love. That was awesome. It was also fun to play "detective" as it took a bit of thinking to figure out what was "happening" from the human perspective since the only clues given in the book are what the dog could sense and understand. You clearly have to be a dog lover to want to read a book all about a dog's life, but I encourage those who want to consider their dogs from a new perspective (and gain more appreciation for them) to check this book out. Biggest lessons/thoughts/takeaways:
My full notes are below. Ch. 1
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