A Book I Love: Incognito

Lately, I’ve been fascinated with how the brain works. My curiosity led me to Leonard Mlodinow’s Subliminal and David Eagleman’s Incognito. If you’re as intrigued by neurology as I am, you will appreciate Incognito. 

“Most of what we do and think and feel is not under our conscious control,” writes Eagleman. Elsewhere, he states: “Your consciousness is like a tiny stowaway on a transatlantic steamship, taking credit for the journey without acknowledging the massive engineering underfoot.”

The book explains everything from gamblers and strippers to some of the inexplicable decisions you might have taken credit for, sorta like that tiny stowaway.