The Idiot Brain

This book by Dean Burnett was genuinely recommended once in the episodes we index, on Diary of a CEO. The people who vouched for it on air: Jack Maynard. It comes up in conversations about depression & mood, trauma & ptsd. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

From attention mechanisms to memory processing, the neuroscience of sleep and the psychology of superstition, neuroscientist Dean Burnett explores the surprising workings of the brain and the bemusing behaviours these cause in everyday life.

• “she went this book it was called the idiot brain and it explains how your body reacts to the feeling of like anxiety and like depression”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “the best thing that she did was she went this book; it explained like the signals your brain sending out; it made me feel like oh just that one thing it was like the biggest way”
  Jack Maynard · The Diary of a CEO · Mar 202100:36:45

  Said during "Jack Maynard: The Untold Story: How Being Thrown Out The Jungle Changed My Life Forever | E71". The episode features Jack Maynard: British YouTuber, DJ and reality TV personality, brother of singer Conor Maynard, known for being removed from I'm a Celebrity in 2017. YouTuber Jack Maynard on being pulled from I'm a Celebrity over old tweets, the PTSD that followed, and rebuilding through SAS.