[Dialogue] Oliver Sacks

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Thank you, Steve, for this. Yesterday's Radio Lab show featured a taped interview of Dr. Sachs. The show's theme was how to successfully bargain with ourselves to break addictions and/or create. His bargain, when he kept procrastinating on writing his first book, "If I don't finish this book in  10 days, I'll commit suicide." He finished it in 9 days. 


Jann 



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Oliver Sacks died today.

He was a neurologist,  a deep explorer of the human
spirit and an
imaginal educator: "Every time we practice an old skill or learn
a new
one, existing neural connections are strengthened and, over
time,
neurons create more connections to other neurons. Even new nerve
cells
can be generated".

He wrote on the joy of life: "Above all, I have
been a sentient being,
a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in
itself has
been an enormous privilege and adventure."

NYTimes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/31/science/oliver-sacks-dies-at-82-neurologist-and-author-explored-the-brains-quirks.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well


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