Beyond Mars and Venus - A Buddist's Perspective

Beyond Mars and Venus - A Buddist's Perspective by Susan Andrus

Before the review, some notable quotes:

"But how do we change our thoughts, our reality, our communication patterns and our negotiation skills? According to learning theorists, it takes 1500 repetitions for the average person to learn a new skill and perform it at an automatic level. It takes 3000 for a slow lerner and about 500 repetitions for a genius. Repeating practice reinforces the learning and makes those cells in the brain connect in new ways until the task is performed without 'thinking'."

Other than this interesting factual information, I did not get anything from this book. The author talked about communication and dialogue and "Buddahood" or something of that sort. Glad I did not buy it. Glad I went to the library. I did learn one interesting fact. I have to do something 1500 times before I get it right I wonder if learning theorists took into account old age and dementia? Too funny.




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