Textbooks, fiction, memoirs, you name it–reading was never really my thing.  But I have finally found the book that makes learning interesting information fun.

My fingers were glued to the cover of “Incognito” for all 224 pages.

While it may seem as though the conscious mind makes up most of our existence, Neuroscientist David Eagleman argues that our lives are actually mostly governed by the unconscious mind.  Most of what we do and think is far from our conscious control.

Eagleman provides the reader with a backstage pass to our own heads – one that allows us to understand the part of us that isn’t us.

On Eagleman’s interesting journey through the secret lives of the brain, the reader begins to understand the endless responsibilities held by the pink jell-o like organ.

There is so much to learn about the brain and human behavior, and Eagleman does an excellent job of including the most important overarching themes and simplifying them so the average human can comprehend.  There is a true skill in doing so, and not only has Eagleman mastered this style of writing, but he makes the information fun.

“Ours is an incredible story,” Eagleman wrote.  “As far as anyone can tell, we’re the only system on the planet so complex that we’ve thrown ourselves headlong into the game of deciphering our own programming language.”

“Incognito” takes advantage of this phenomenon by providing us with an opportunity to decipher the vast number of discoveries science has made on our most important organ and, to me, this is the neatest thing in the world.