Altered Traits

In this book, Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson lay out new findings on how meditation can shape your brain. In the last twenty years, meditation and mindfulness have gone from being kind of cool to becoming an omnipresent Band-Aid for fixing everything from your weight to your relationship to your achievement level. Unveiling here the kind of cutting-edge research that has made them giants in their fields, the authors show readers how data has been distorted to sell mind-training methods—and they also reveal personality traits that can result from meditating.