Your brain makes most of its decisions without you even being conscious of what is happening. Your memory can trick you: it remembers things, of course, but it can reconstruct the past and invent details, always managing to make you believe what it tells you. When you meet someone on the street your brain has already decided, unbeknownst to you, if he or she poses a threat.
We are wired for empathy, to understand other people and share their emotions. This is why we are capable of reading the faces of others. All the inhabitants of planet earth understand each other through seven types of smile and the easiest to detect is a fake one.
In this book the above statements are proven and explained in an open manner. Carlos Chaguaceda links an entertaining story with interesting experiments in order to explain that human beings are all very similar in how we face up to problems and how we feel life's adventures.
