Although she experienced social alienation due to being on the autism spectrum, Millie’s voice is clear and optimistic — setting an example for all of us on how to live our best lives. Throughout, there is no critical discussion of science concepts, just quick adoption and overapplication to unrelated social domains.

On thinking outside the box, Millie likens the process of decision-making to machine learning, where “algorithms excel by their ability to be unstructured, to thrive amid complexity and randomness and respond effectively to changes in circumstances. Manche Szenen kamen mir persönlich nur allzu bekannt vor, und viele ihrer Schlussfolgerungen lebe ich ebenfalls aus. And we then use those artificial categories to demonize people, emphasizing difference as a social and cultural weapon.I thought I was, since I am the parent of an adult daughter with Asperger's Syndrome and the author is also on the spectrum and only a few years older than my daughter. She even admonishes the reader "to admit that your computer thinks outside the box more readily than you do. Photograph: Debbie Rowe View image in fullscreen ‘A thank-you letter to my mum and also a love letter to science’ … Camilla Pang. By drawing the connection between machine learning and decision-making, Millie concludes that machine learning teaches us that ‘mistakes’ are normal and inherent in real data, therefore we should embrace instead of run away from the mistakes and setbacks in our own lives.

For a book written by someone whose career is in an intellectually rigorous discipline, it lacks both rigour and discipline.Oft auch mit Humor und Witz erzählt Pang von den vielen Fettnäpfchen, in die sie als Autistin mit ADHS in ihrem Leben schon gestolpert ist. Knowing why you choose people helps you understand their place in your life and when to let go if necessary. Learning about ergodicity helped me to see that the human obsession with stereotypes is one of our most harmful traits. Previous winners include Stephen Hawking – a childhood hero of Pang’s, who read A Brief History of Time at the age of eight.

I don’t know how a PhD in biochemistry gives Dr Pang the credentials to dispense psychiatric advice, nor how advice along the lines of “become a prism to refract your fears and anxieties so you can understand and cope with them” is anything more than a deepity cloaked in pseudoscientific babble.

Through a set of scientific principles, this book examines life's everyday interactions including: decisions and the route we take to make them; conflict and how we can avoid it; relationships and how we establish them; etiquette and how we conform to it. Millie uses covalent (stability through sharing) and ionic (attraction of differences) to define human relationships — our desire for connection is similar to the exchange of electrons essential for chemical bonding, where one can both be too distant and too close to form an effective, stable relationship. She found it very interesting and enjoyable, and always loves hearing about other amazing people with ASD and what they. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Winning doesn’t feel real yet, but it does feel like an incredible honour, to be up there with people I admire.

But most of it is a long, laborious slog - it's all relevant and important to the author, but the metaphors and models won't necessarily make sense to anyone else. At the core of this memoir is an exposition of human nature written from the perspective of an individual who always felt like she was on the outside looking in. I think Camilla is clearly very intelligent but when it comes to writing I'm not sure this is the field to be in. My mum is a biochemist and this maybe why I begin to switch off whenever someone starts to monologue about proteins. Camilla's unique perspective of the world, in turn, tells us so much about ourselves - about who we are and why we do it - and is a fascinating guide on how to lead a more connected, happier life.

For more infomation please review our use of cookies in our Cookie Policy and then Accept and Close this bar. To find harmony with others we need to be aware of their wavelengths and amplitudes, and to help ourselves with inevitable extremes, we need to find others to help balance them out. Whilst she was initially confronted with the fear of human connection, this book is a joyous ode to the fact that “being out of place also means you are in your own world where you are free to make the rules. autorka bada zachowania ludzi podając za przykłady różne badania lub działania, oparte na biologicznych, fizycznych i chemicznych reakcjach. Each chapter takes a specific social problem and analyses it using scientific metaphors, from machine learning to proteins, refraction to ergodic theory.