Sense

An interesting non-fiction book that is filled with a bunch of insights of the complexities and importance of our senses and how it can influence and affect our day. Most of the information is cool but kind of useless, like how red walls increase efficiency at work and smelling lavender makes you hungry (made second one up but stuff like that). It does reinforce the importance of all the difference senses in everyday life, and I have taken some nuggets of info with me, like sleeping with the blinds open so you can wake naturally from the sun in the morning. I have been feeling less lethargic on a wakeup from this. A problem I have with the book was how it was written. All the evidence that backs up the claims seem unimportant and unreliable. Like the colour blue makes people calmer because one study at some university said so? A lot of the information can be easily manipulated from them. Biggest take away for me is the importance of smell in the everyday, for food but also impressions and relaxing aswell.

Author: Russel Jones 

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