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Like sand on the beach, the brain bears the footprints of the decisions we have made, the skills we have learned, the actions we have taken.

Sharon Begley

The conscious act of thinking about one's thoughts in a different way changes the very brain circuits that do that thinking...

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The mind, of course, is just what the brain does for a living.

Sharon Begley

Pure mathematics is a sucker's game. It lures the curious and the confident with its seeming simplicity only to make them look like fools.

Sharon Begley

Number theory... is a field of almost pristine irrelevance to everything except the wondrous demonstration that pure numbers, no more substantial than Plato's shadows, conceal magical laws and orders that the human mind can discover after all.

Sharon Begley

Sharon Begley

Sharon Begley

Born: June 14, 1956

Died: January 16, 2021 (aged 64)

Bio: Sharon Begley was an American journalist who was the senior science writer for Stat, the publication from The Boston Globe that covers stories related to the life sciences.

Known for:

The Emotional Life of Your Brain (2012)
Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain (2007)
The Plastic Mind (2012)

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