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Are you optimistic or pessimistic? A glass half-full or half-empty? Will you look on the excellent side or convert towards the dark? They are easy questions for most of us to answer, because our personality types are hardwired into our brains. As pioneering psychologist and neuroscientist Elaine Fox has observed, our lifestyle displays our primal inclination to seek pleasure or avoid risk - inclinations that, in many people, are healthily balanced. However when our "fear brain" or "pleasure brain" is too strong, the results can be disastrous, as those folks suffering from devastating shyness, addiction, melancholy, or stress and anxiety know all too well. Fortunately, anyone experiencing these afflictions has reason to wish. Stunning breakthroughs in neuroscience show our brains tend to be malleable than we ever imagined. In Rainy Brain, Sunny Brain, Fox describes a range of techniques - from traditional cognitive behavioral therapy to ground breaking cognitive-retraining exercises - that can in fact alter our brains' circuitry, building up specific thought functions by doing exercises the neural systems that control them. The implications are extensive: Lifelong pessimists can train themselves to believe positively and find delight, while pleasure-seekers willing toward high-risk or destructive behavior can take control of their lives. Drawing on her own cutting-edge research, Fox shows how exactly we can retrain our brains to brighten our lives and figure out how to flourish. With enthusiastic insights into how genes, life experiences, and cognitive functions interleave alongside one another to make us who we live, Rainy Brain, Sunny Brain revolutionizes our basic concept of personality. We learn that people can influence our very own personalities, and our lives are just as "sunny" or as "rainy" once we allow them to be.
