booktrack 2011-05: why we love

i'm way behind my target. just finished my fifth book of the year when i'm supposed to be on my eighth already.

i've always been fascinated with science and how the brain works. psychology interests me. if i wasn't trying to please my parents by choosing a course closely related to law, i would've taken up psych. but what's done is done, so the next best thing is to read about it.

special meaning. aggrandizing. intrusive thinking. frustration attraction. all terms i encountered in why we love (helen fisher). 

the books explains why we feel the way we feel when we're harboring some kind of special feelings towards a special someone. it's enlightening. and now i know i can blame it on dopamine, norepinephrine and serotonin. ha. you know what's actually funny... i can see myself in some of the descriptions. not that i've ever been in love. what i've felt for my persons-of-interest is more of infatuation. cos seriously, how can you love someone you've never even spoken to?

"someone is camping in your brain; you must throw the scoundrel out."
best advice ever. and i think i have thrown the scoundrel out. i think. though not yet entirely but i'm getting there. well, now that i have a better understanding of how this thing works, i think it's easier to see that maybe he's really not all that.

very nice and informative read. though there was this one thing that annoyed me in this book- how focused was spelled. focussed. paulit-ulit pa naman siya.

next read: still deciding between flipped and built to last