The Emotional Brain

My reading identity is a voracious reader, I tend to read books a lot and put them over homework and other important things. Last year within the time we were supposed to read Pride and Prejudice I went through 3 different books instead of even reading the school book. The book Im reading now is called The Emotional Brain by Joseph LeDoux. My first encounter with reading this book I was actually at high school swim practice, so my coach never makes me swim since I do club but I always have to be there so I decided I was just gonna read this book to pass the time. It was extremely loud obviously because there was a whole team swimming in the pool, but when I started reading the book all the noises stopped and I was so into the book that after reading for an hour, it felt like it was only 5 minutes. I’m really looking forward to reading the rest of this book because it’s talking about how our brain can change emotions in a split second and how we can feel certain ways. I’m not sure how to say this in a non-nerdy way but the brain and how it can even possibly do everything it does is probably the coolest thing I have ever even thought about it. The best part about reading this book is knowing that everything your reading about is actually happening inside your head right now. The way that the left side of your brain only controls the right side of your body and the right side of your brain only controls the left side of your body is actually happening in your body as your reading this post. Learning about how something so little in your head is actually controlling every little thing you do is probably the best part of reading this book.