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Doty, James R. (James Robert), 1955-
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Doty, James R. (James Robert), 1955-
Compassion.
Altruism.
Self-control -- Biography.
Mind and body.
Success -- Moral and ethical aspects Biography.
Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Biography.
Neurosurgeons -- United States -- Biography.
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Doty, James R. (James Robert), 1955-
Doty, James R. (James Robert), 1955-
Compassion.
Altruism.
Self-control -- Biography.
Mind and body.
Success -- Moral and ethical aspects Biography.
Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Biography.
Neurosurgeons -- United States -- Biography.
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Into the magic shop : a neurosurgeon's quest to discover the mysteries of the brain and the secrets of the heart / James R. Doty, MD.
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Doty, James R. (James Robert), 1955-
Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2016]
Call #:
177
.7
D725i
Subjects
Doty, James R. (James Robert), 1955-
Compassion.
Altruism.
Self-control -- Biography.
Mind and body.
Success -- Moral and ethical aspects Biography.
Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Biography.
Neurosurgeons -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781594632983 (hc.)
1594632987 (hc.)
Description:
276 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
Contents:
Real magic -- A body at rest -- Thinking about thinking -- Growing pains -- Three wishes -- Apply yourself -- Unacceptable -- It's not brain surgery -- The sultan of nothing -- Giving up -- The alphabet of the heart -- Manifesting compassion -- The face of God.
Summary:
"Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a stroke. Today he is a professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Stanford University. But back then his life was at a dead end until at twelve he wandered into a magic shop looking for a plastic thumb. Instead he met Ruth, a woman who taught him a series of exercises to ease his own suffering and manifest his greatest desires. Her final mandate was that he keep his heart open and teach these techniques to others. She gave him his first glimpse of the unique relationship between the brain and the heart. Doty would go on to put Ruth's practices to work with extraordinary results - power and wealth that he could only imagine as a twelve-year-old. But he neglects Ruth's most important lesson, to keep his heart open, with disastrous results - until he had the opportunity to make a fateful choice: renege on a promise and cultivate ambition, or accept financial ruin and cultivate the heart."--Provided by publisher.
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Memoirs.
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