Twelve Rules for Life? Who goes around giving people rules these days? Jordan Peterson spent much of his adult life studying and teaching the psychology of religion. Maybe that’s where he got the idea. According to the Bible, God gave Moses ten rules for life, and Jesus gave his followers quite a number of guidelines. But rules seem to have gone out of…
Marc Lewis
Marc Lewis is the author of The Biology of Desire and Memoirs of an Addicted Brain. Formerly, he was a professor of developmental psychology at the University of Toronto.
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Neuroplasticity doesn’t just mean brain change. It captures the unique kind of change – self-directed and self-perpetuating – that is fundamental to how the brain operates and necessary to the brain’s capacity to learn, to remember, and to shift perspectives. It describes how the fibres connecting brain cells to each other sprout, spread, germinate, retract, and…
The heart is the subject of this novel—in particular the heart of Hernan Garcia, a Latin American doctor who ends up in Montreal and becomes the mentor to a local boy named Patrick. While Garcia creates a new life as a grocer, Patrick stocks the shelves and mops the floor, and gradually falls under the spell of this strong and caring…