#susannah cahalan

[elfspectations]

Finished reading Guerrilla Warfare by Ernesto Che Guevara. The audiobook version my library has started and ended with weird jaunty music. The narrator mispronounced a bunch of common words. I got the overall impression that this is just "Sun Tzu on a budget". He said shoes and mules are the most important things to acquire, weapons should be stolen from the enemy. Guevara also denounced terrorism and said violent acts should be reserved for emeny combatants and civilians should be recruited to the cause and if they don't want to support the cause to leave them alone, because if the revolution is successful they will be your citizens and you don't want to piss them off preemptively. That makes sense to leave neutral parties alone. Another thing was that he was supportive of women participating in the revolution, though he did divide tasks in a gendered way that was a little condescending. But No Sex! It's a distraction! Lol.

Up next is Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan. I've been meaning to read this since it came out so I'm really looking forward to it.

[sometimesiwastetimehere]

[stromuprisahat]

reading Brain on Fire: "After that weekend, I took three more consecutive days off work. That was a lot for anyone, but especially for a newbie reporter. Even when the Post kept me out past 4:00 a.m. working on Meatpacking District club stories, I always made it to the office right on time a few hours later. I never took sick days." me, living in a normal country that doesn't make you work to death just because you get a flu: WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?!

[somethingtocallmine]

Someone once asked, “If you could take it all back, would you?”

At the time I didn’t know. Now I do. I wouldn’t take that terrible experience back for anything in the world. Too much light has come out of my darkness.

Susannah Cahalan - Brain On Fire: My Month of Madness

[englishish17]

“The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess.”

[ashryver-g-aelin]

[noosphe-re]

The brain is radically resilient; it can create new neurons and make new connections through cortical remapping, a process called neurogenesis. Our minds have the incredible capacity to both alter the strength of connections among neurons, essentially rewiring them, and create entirely new pathways. (It makes a computer, which cannot create new hardware when its system crashes, seem fixed and helpless.) This amazing malleability is called neuroplasticity. Like daffodils in the early days of spring, my neurons were resprouting receptors as the winter of the illness ebbed.

Susannah Cahalan, Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

[luxe-pauvre]

The brain is radically resilient; it can create new neurons and make new connections through cortical remapping, a process called neurogenesis. Our minds have the incredible capacity to both alter the strength of connections among neurons, essentially rewiring them, and create entirely new pathways. (It makes a computer, which cannot create new hardware when its system crashes, seem fixed and helpless.) This amazing malleability is called neuroplasticity. Like daffodils in the early days of spring, my neurons were resprouting receptors as the winter of the illness ebbed.

Susannah Cahalan, Brain On Fire