Altered Traits

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Richard Davidson describes Altered Traits as a book he co-authored with Daniel Goleman, rooted in a foundational idea about how meditation's lasting effects become the baseline for future practice—the "after is the before for the next during." His tone is matter-of-fact, explaining the book's conceptual origin without promotional language.

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Two New York Times –bestselling authors unveil new research showing what meditation can really do for the brain. In the last twenty years, meditation and mindfulness have gone from being kind of cool to becoming an omnipresent Band-Aid for fixing everything from your weight to your relationship to your achievement level. Unveiling here the kind of cutting-edge research that has made them giants in their fields, Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson show us the truth about what meditation can really do for us, as well as exactly how to get the most out of it. Sweeping away common misconceptions and neuromythology to open readers’ eyes to the ways data has been distorted to sell mind-training methods, the authors demonstrate that beyond the pleasant states mental exercises can produce, the real payoffs are the lasting personality traits that can result.

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  Richard Davidson💬 Mentioned

  …discussing book on meditation and neuroscience

  “The book Altered Traits. And the origin of Altered Traits is really in a sentence that we wrote in a paper 20 years earlier where we said, the after is the before for the next during. And I wrote the book Altered Traits with my dear friend and colleague, Daniel Goleman.”

  Huberman Lab — Science-Based Meditation Tools to Improve Your Brain & Health | Dr. Richard Davidsonat 07:02

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