The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: How Risk Taking Transforms Us, Body and Mind

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The quote could be translated to this book. “A fool is someone who can tell you what neurotransmitters are firing, but not actually how to do the job.”

Cast: Lee Jun Ki ( This was the first drama that i saw him) , Nam Sang Mi, Jung Kyong Ho ultimate trio:) the atmosphere between them is so good that you can't stop watching. Especially Lee Jun ki's acting make you bewildered,it likes in one drama he has many characters. The interesting side of this book is how our physiology is influencing our decision-making, and how it can be contagious in a group. The book describes in minute detail the working of our nervous and hormonal system when we are faced with the stress of modern life. More intriguingly, in intricate detail the book explains the distinctive roles of the different substances in the body that influences the role of the body in behavior and decision-making: adrenalin, testosterone, dopamine, and cortisol to be precise. The fascinating part is the explanation of their respective causal effects on the body and brain, and how their roles can complement or conflict each other as a result of the unhealthy contemporary environment of the financial world. The unique title is taken from a French since the Middle Ages have called "L'heure entre chien et loup" and refers to the moments after sunset when the sky darkens and vision becomes ambiguous, making it difficult to distinguish between dogs and wolves, friends and foe. John Coates has brilliantly interpreted this unique title that it is this moment that we human being irrational and euphoric that makes us become appetite for risk and making a bad decision. The ex-follower of the Spider gang ran away after trying to persuade Kay to go with him. Min-ki arrives at the scene and sees Kay looking over his fatally wounded father. When his father dies subsequently at the hospital, Min-ki vows to kill Kay with his own hands.What caught my attention about this book a few years ago was the premise: author Coates formerly worked at Wall Street and have experienced firsthand the fascinating emotions that goes on the trading floor there. After leaving Wall Street and the financial world, he entered the academic neuroscientific world and began revisiting his old world as an bystander-observer, and relating his firsthand experiences with his objective analyses in his new of how neuroscience and the financial world affect each other. Tragedies abound in the hidden life of a Jewish girl in the historical novel At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf—and questions about what moral compromises are the acceptable cost of survival. Is Danielle really so clueless that she outs two people in her life, did she really think she was doing the right thing or is it a subconscious resentment that causes her actions?

Beneath the bucolic scenes of Tara Ison’s novel are foreboding realities. Neighbors turn against neighbors; fascism creeps up; “good” people avert their eyes. Danielle, suspended between worlds, yearns for the safety of the prewar days, but makes concessions to mimic peace; each time she chooses blindness over alarm, her truths slip a bit further from her grasp. Willing to compromise friends, family, and her past for the illusion of safety, she flirts with nothingness. Even at the novel’s gripping end, the question of whether she will be able to rebuild remains. Her life in a small farming community is hard at first with chores, loneliness, and the lie she lives to become Marie-Jeanne. Along with her life in the city she has had to give up pretty dresses and shoes, the stores, and everything that mattered to a young girl. These things are replaced by milking the cows, learning to knit and sew, going hungry, wearing scratchy woolen hand-me-down clothes, and hand made shoes with wooden soles. As she matures, the Catholic pretense becomes more real than the life she left behind and her beliefs are compromised when she admits a secret to a German soldier. This creates a frightening and guilt ridden situation that makes Marie-Jeanne try even harder to find safety in her new world. Coates, who once headed a derivatives trading desk, focuses on the moment of Jekyll-and-Hyde transformation that traders pass through when under pressure. This moment of transformation, which the French have called “the hour between dog and wolf” since the Middle Ages, results from rising levels of testosterone that increase both one’s self-confidence and, crucially, one’s appetite for risk. A successful Wall Street trader turned neuroscientist reveals how risk taking and stress transform our body chemistry I had a really hard time getting into this at first and read it in short bursts but then suddenly I couldnt put it down. I avoid WWII fiction because there is so much of it and I have read so much of it plus sometimes they are written to appeal to people who enjoy reading about suffering (which I dont and I think those types of books are a bit perverted)This is a KDrama that has a lot to offer in terms of exciting and moving entertainment. Lee Joon-gi shows edge here even at his younger age. But all of them express their emotions with some intensity. This does not go bye unnoticed. Humans are built to move, so move we should. The more research emerges on physical exercise, the more we find that is benefits and far beyond our muscles a cardiovascular systems. Exercise expands the productive capacity of our amine-producing cells, helping to inoculate us against anxiety, stress, depression and learned helplessness. It also floods our brains with what are called growth factors, and these keep existing neurons Young and new neurons growing-some scientist called these growth factors "brain fertilizer"-so our brains are strengthened against stress and aging. A well-designed regime of physical exercise can be a boot camp for the brain. In the future, however, the advice to exercise, administered so literally by doctors everywhere, could be made more effective by being more explicit. What type of exercise? Antibiotic or anaerobic? How often? Once again, sports science could help enormously and tailoring this advice to the person receiving it. Recalled that the Hormones play a central role in our body and how it affects us in rational judgment and decision making. There is, in fact, a connection between preconscious decisions and the body, because it is gut feeling that allows us to rapidly assess whether a pattern and a considered choice will most likely lead to a pleasant or nasty outcome, whether we like or dislike, welcome or fear it. For instance, he describes that the Dopamine that our body produces prompted us to try things we had not tried before. It surges most powerfully when we perform a novel physical activity that leads to unexpected reward. It drives us to push beyond established routines. Other than that, the reason that drives the overconfidence traders in the financial market to overestimate their ability to take graver risk is the Steroid Hormone that produces by our body when the profits come in drastically. The author also describes that, when our body is placed entirely on hormones, there is some evidence that the nucleus accumbens, the thrilling center of the brain, outgrows the more rational prefrontal cortex of our brain. The euphoria, overconfidence and heightened appetite for risk that grip traders during bull market may result from a phenomenon known in biology as the "winner effect" that an animal winning a fight or a competition for turf was more likely to win its next fight. For this is the reason why so many successful traders or entrepreneur bragged about their success story, the winners experienced a self-reinforcing upward spiral of testosterone. If Coates is right- the evidence he presents is compelling- then the financial; crises that so frequently plague capitalism find their roots in human biology’ New Scientist Magazine