Pleasure

If you suffer from any form of addiction, take heart that this could just be a medical condition and it's curable!

Research is done by the author that humans have a pleasure zone in the brain that can be activated by the presence of drugs, alcohol, sex, gambling and even exercise. Tests have been conducted to show that electrodes placed on certain parts of the brains can actually stimulate the pleasure zone.

Read about amydala ( which controls emotion) , prefrontal cortex, hippotamus ( memory), VTA( ventral tegmantal area ( pleasure), medial forebrain pleasure circuit ( pleasure )... and a host of other brain parts that control motor, emotive and cognitive functions. I wonder why my Bio teacher never thought me these... save showing us that clump of brown mass immersed in chloroform!

Read also of the process of addiction : tolerance, withdrawal, craving, relapse... 

And also why some people find uncertainty highly addictive!

And how meditative practices can cure addiction...

And many many more biological terms that I cannot possibly remember...like LTP, LTD...

Heads off to doctors , man....

The Solomon Secrets

This book has many similarities with the " Richest Man in Babylon" in that they both draw wisdom from Solomon, and that there are many quotes from the Bible.

What attracted me was the idea that All things need time , in their own time. "...Have the wisdom for restraint..."

He also mention the idea of CRAP... in that soil needs crap in order to be rich, to grow good plants. Hence the more crap you receive in your life, the better and stronger your character.

Many ideas are quite conventional. Like Living below your means. , You need to have a PLAN.

Easy reading , with plenty of quotes from the Bible.