Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Book Review: The Morning Mind by Drs. Rob Carter III, PhD, MPH and Kirti Slawe Carter, MBBS, MPH

Do you ever wish you had a better understanding of how your body and brain work so you can boost mental performance, restore healthy waking and sleeping cycles, develop self-discipline, and more? The Morning Mind by Drs. Rob Carter III and Kirti Slawe Carter will be an excellent resource for that.

In this extensively detailed and engaging book, the Carters explain all about our brains, the body clock, and how our minds and bodies work in the morning. They also share how systematic learning, repetition, hard work, ritual, and routines hold the key to rebuilding the rest of the brain (think: getting rid of bad habits and replacing them with better ones).

The Morning Mind is different from what I expected, which is okay because it is totally fascinating. The doctors explain not only the different parts of the brain, they discuss stress hormones, your brain in the morning, how your heart impacts your health, and the significance of body temperature. All this provides an important foundation to understanding how we can create self-discipline and empowering habits.

Chapter 17 is dedicated to ancient wisdom about your brain and body. Readers are able to take a quiz to determine their primary and secondary dosha, because the way the brain works affects how we feel and behave. They help you understand your results and also provide a chart with your two optimum times of day. I took the test and it was spot on.

The Morning Mind also has a list of how some leaders start their day, which ends the book on an inspiring note.

This is definitely one of the better self-help books I've read on this topic. It doesn't recycle all the same information. It truly offers the reader a fuller understanding of how training your mind will have many positive effects.


Paperback: 197 pages
Publisher: AMACOM; Special edition (January 8, 2019)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0814439853
ISBN-13: 978-0814439852

I received a copy of this book from the authors. This review contains my honest opinions, which I have not been compensated for in any way.


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