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Book Review: The Power of Habits (Chapter 9)

Hello, everyone! Welcome back to my blog! Today i'd like to make the last chapter review from "The Power of Habits" written by Charles Duhigg . If you want to read my previous chapter review, you can go to here: review part 1 (chapter 1, 2, 3) , review part 2 (chapter 4, 5, 6) , review part 3 (chapter 7 & 8) . The last chapter or the ninth chapter from this book is part of the third part in this book. Here's my chapter review. Enjoy your reading! Chapter 9: THE NEUROLOGY OF FREE WILL (Are We Responsible for Our Habits?) Charles provides the cases of a murder and a debt gambling.  Brian Thomas killed his wife during his sleepwalking (sleepwalking was Thomas's habits). When doing so, the part of his brain that usually consciously processes behavior is asleep, but the parts controlling routine habits are still awake. It means that Thomas unconsciously killed his wife and has no control over his behavior. Thus, Thomas was acquitted by the jury. The...

Visting and Reading Friends' Blog

Hello, everyone! Welcome to my blog. Today, i'm back with another story. I want to talk about my experience while i read others book review from five blogs i've visited. Without any further do, let's do it! Most of blogs i've visited yesterday were giving such a clear review and most of them were choosing such a great book. There were book about self-love, life, racism, adventure, and success keys. And yeah there were both of non-fiction and fiction books. But, there are some books that made me curious to read those books. Most of them are fiction books. Hehehe. One of them is a book written by Mitch Albom entitled "Tuesday with Morrie". It's about a student and his lecturer. There's also "To Kill A Mockingbird" which is written by Harper Lee. I heard about this book quite a lot, but i didn't know what kind of book was until i read its synopsis yesterday. So, that's all my experience when i visited my friends' blog. I...