The popularization of science requires certain communication skills that unfortunately are not always easy to reconcile with the task of the great scientists. And that there is a lot of science in any branch of human knowledge.
It is about offering an essential empathy, returning to that point where the explanation is provided from the full mimicry with the ignorance of the interlocutor. This is the only way to understand that guys like Oliver sacks or own Eduard Punset they managed to take on that role of communicators of a scientific community usually engrossed in its terminology, its analysis and its research.
The loss of Punset has a lot of that melancholy for continuing to listen to the wise man with a soft accent and Catalan pronunciation who managed to fool us all with his explanations about biological, astronomical and even political aspects if necessary. But as they say, we will always have his work left. A work that in its narrative aspect has a lot of more humanistic dissemination, in a balanced compendium between the intellectual and the emotional.
Because the greatest wisdom, unattainable also for Punset resides in what today wants to be called emotional intelligence. We cannot be complete without integrating our reason into our emotions, when they are positive or when it takes on a darker tint.
In this narrative intention, Eduard has formed a school right now from his daughter Elsa punset, already reputed writer of great coaching books, self-help or whatever you want to call it.
And it is not that this type of literature is the source of my devotion. But in the case of the Punset Exceptions can always be made, even when they provide that subjectivity about the search for happiness or resilience, or the improvement of our potential...
In the case of Eduardo Punset, furthermore, his intention to pave any terrain is always laudable. A reading that is almost childish at times ends up being enlightening in what was precisely the greatest virtue of this communicator: starting from 0 to try to explain everything about the matter in question.
Top 3 recommended books by Eduardo Punset
Face to face with life, death and the universe
On some occasion a friend spoke to me of a feeling of overwhelm when considering the infinity of the universe. For him it was about facing the limitations of our reason in the face of the idea of the infinite concept.
All this spotting the starry sky of a summer night (thank goodness that we were accompanied by beers to be able to tackle such abstract concepts).
In this book Punset takes advantage of that infinity to try to approach that mental openness from which our fullest meaning can be seen.
Our evolution around the world has always been marked by the times of science and the progressive knowledge of our environment, understanding as such the whole in which we barely appear as an invisible particle from any other point of the cosmos.
But at least we are left with the restlessness, the desire to know that gradually it has been giving us the opportunity to achieve new feats thanks to great minds from all over the world.
From many of these great thinkers, Punset knew how to get the best, reducing their concepts to what was understandable for any fan of astronomy, biology, psychology or the deepest brain physiology.
An interesting volume to have certain general guidelines from which any study worth its salt goes back to the great scientific theories and their progressive advances.
The journey to love
Beyond the unapproachable premises that individually mark the drives towards that love made sensations beyond the concept, science has also launched its most enlightening explanation of the scientific secrets buried under the various layers of each person's emotions.
What we are, the path that has led us here, has ended up providing new social, and above all moral, principles about love as a convention.
But the anthropological and biological analysis describes his particular theses about the motives for love as a whole circumscribed to a multitude of endogenous variables.
There is scientific precision and certainty about the reasons for love and in this book we are brought closer to what technology can describe based on the changes that have occurred in our body at all levels.
The trip to hapyness
Happiness is the sum of circumstantial and emotional coincidences pointing towards the same objective. Or happiness is that moment that randomly occurs. Or maybe it's resilience, or stoicism, or hedonism.
Much has been said and studied, already from philosophy, about happiness as a goal. Nothing is happier than reaching that state of peace, but man is by nature restlessness, ambition.
And faced with a status of happiness supposedly suspended in the moment, there is the will to change, the need for variation.
The point is that currently, with a very high life expectancy, time is extending and the stages of the human being change even more if possible, from the hormonal to the emotional, passing through increasingly precipitated and changing conditions.
Science has also taken action to find that formula for happiness. And maybe it will be the panacea, or just a placebo. The point is that the mere intention of documentation in this regard is extremely attractive.
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