The Craving Mind

Очень приятная книга.

Really interesting book. The text ran the gamut: drugs, love, phone, even borderline personality disorder and it's addictive tendencies. Very informative, though not with a lot of practical advice to overcome said addictions. That said, I really just wanted to understand the biology behind addiction, and this book fit that desire.

At times this book was really interesting. But it was not constantly good. The categorisation at the end was disappointing.

Ok but if I start meditating will I get better at life automatically? It is unclear, but I have downloaded three guided meditation/mindfulness apps to my phone to try it out (for reals this time)

One of the criticisms in another review had to do with whether using mindfulness to not be bothered by things mind not lead to a world where all the destructive people have taken over because we just turned the other check. I wonder as a woman whether this will just let people walk all over me more (why get angry about uneven chore divisions when it is faster and less bothersome to just do them?) why have all the mindfulness/Buddhist texts I've been picking up been written by men?