4 Non-Fiction books reviewed

Non-fiction books read.

1) Oct 18th The Sleep Solution by W. Chris Winter, M.D. How to sleep. Some interesting information here but generally it says go to bed. Each sleep cycle is 90 minutes, so if you take a nap in the daytime, schedule roughly 90 minutes, otherwise you will not be fully rested and will feel sleepy later in the day.

2) Oct 23rd Ghetto by Mitchell Duneier — The invention of a place and the history of an idea. I had no idea that Jewish were the first people to be seperated from the population. This was done as Church saw Judisam as a threat to their control.
Naepolian Bonepart tried to intergrate the Jewish people into the common realms but the Christians believed the Gheto (an ancient word for copper. I guess there were copper-mines back in the day) is where they belonged. In the 1940’s, African-American’s, “Negros”, started to call their inner urban areas a Ghetto.

3) Oct 26th 100 things every designed needs to know about People by Susan Weinschenk. This is a good book and it describes the psychology and mechanics of memory and unconscious decision making. For example, as humans our brains decide what to keep in the long term memory and what to toss, and this is decided by patterns.
Our brain loves patterns and it will auto-search for patterns in design and whatnot. If we are learning something, it needs to be repeated/reviewed several times. Then the brain will notice the pattern and it enters long term memory. Each time the pattern is repeated, new nurons are created to strengthen the nuro pathways so we can remember faster.
Also there is a limited amount of time that the brain will focus.(Richard Lee says: 25 minutes.) We can’t remember every thing we are introduced to in one session, the brain can’t process too much. This is information overload. It will retain about four items. This is way most people can only remember a few things from seminars. This is the reason most phone numbers are around three and four numbers long, for example: 070–555x — 03xx.

4) Little white lies is a piece of crud that tries to convince the reader that telling a small white lie will destroy us mentally, and that we will not be able to know the truth from a lie and the lie will become our reality. So, the next time your elderly aunt, who rarely ventures out, gets you a gift you don’t like, be sure to stick with the truth.