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David Weiner Psychology Author
David Weiner Quick Facts
Main Areas: Instincts that are formed in our sub-conscious mind that may propel us into irrational behavior, and what we can do neutralize them.Best Sellers: Battling the Inner Dummy: The Craziness of Apparently Normal People, Reality Check: What Your Mind Knows But Isn't Telling You, Power Freaks: Dealing with Them in the Workplace or Anyplace, Brain Tricks: Coping with Your Defective Brain
Career Focus: I have two careers, one as an owner of a marketing, advertising and branding agency heading into its 50th year, the other as a psychology author specializing in the biology of human irrationality
Affiliation: Marketing Support, Inc., University of Wisconsin's Psychology Deparment, its Health/Emotions Research Institue and its Center for Investigating Healthy Minds
David L. Weiner (Chicago, IL) is considered an expert on the biology of human irrationality, much of which is motivated by sub-conscious instincts, some inherited, many shaped by our traumatoc experiences. He is the author of four popular psychology books, which he wrote with assistance from the University of Wisconsin's (Madison) Department of Psychology, number one in the nation in federal research awards received. Three of his books were psychology bestsellers: Battling the Inner Dummy: The Craziness of Apparently Normal People (also published in China, Spain and Latin America... and in Braille), Power Freaks: Dealing with Them in the Workplace or Anyplace, and Reality Check: What Your Mind Knows But Isn't Telling You. He is also the author of Brain Tricks: Coping with Your Defective Brain. Weiner serves on the Board of Advissers of the University of Wisconsin's Psychology Depatment, and also on the external board of advisors for the Health Emotions Research Institute, headquarterd at the University in Madison. The institute seeks to use state-of-the-art scientific methods developed for the study of illness to study the relationship between positive emotions and health. Weiner was also instrumental in founding the Scientific Society for the Study of Psychopathy, after sponsoring a symposium and conference featuring the top academics worldwide in the field. On the business side of his career, he is the founder and CEO of MSI...Marketing Support, Inc., with 90+ employees. He is a marketing consultant to the Center for Investiating Healthy Minds, which was inspired by neuroscientist Richie Davidson and the Dali Lama. Among other thngs, it utilizes compemplative neuroscience to teach kindess and compssion.
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from David Weiner
Oliver Sacks, neurologist and best selling author tells the story of one of his patients, who was struck by lightening. After he recovered, he found himself craving the music of Chopin. Prior to the accident, his music interest was limited to rock. Soon he learned to play the piano, focusing on the music of Chopin. Then he began to write music in the style of Chopin, and within a short time, he was actually giving concerts. The point of this story and dozens like it in the fields of neurology and pschyiatry reaffirm the findings by neuroscientists that our minds are hard wired into our brains. Our minds, in other words, are not formed from some ehtheral soul force, but operate with circuits that emulate our smartphones. The good news about this is that if our irrational thoughts and actions that are causing discomfort to ourselves and others are hard wired, then the possibility exists that we can fix them, hopefully short of being struck by lightening. Brain scientists have found that the brain is more plastic and fixable than was previously thought.
