Will and self -control. How genes and brain prevent us from fighting for temptations
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Why do some people easily refuse temptations, while others are not able to withstand them? The author of the book, having collected the latest scientific data, proves that people who are difficult to resist temptations physiologically and biochemically differ from those who do not have these problems. Due to the genetic characteristics of such people, neurotransmitters are differently distributed and work-substances that regulate the brain. Violations are different: the owners of some are constantly lacking a feeling of pleasure, carriers of others experience from pleasant things so strong feelings that they cannot resist it. But the result is one: the “animal” part of the brain is a limbic system that requires pleasure right here and now, more often prevails over the most “smart” zone - prefrontal bark, which remembers that momentary pleasure threatens large life plans. There are many tests in the book, and although according to their results it is impossible to draw conclusions that you have “bad” options for “self -control genes” and how their influence is formed with environmental factors, according to indirect signs, you can still assume what systems are in your The brain does not work correctly. The last part of the book is recommendations on how to effectively stay from the temptations to you and achieve long -term goals, despite problems with self -control
Author:
Author:Irina Yakutenko
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Politics & Social Science
- Category:Psychology
- Category:Reference books
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-00139-477-8
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