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<b>Two <i>New York Times</i>-bestselling authors unveil new research showing what meditation can really do for the brain.</b><br /><br />In the last twenty years, meditation and mindfulness have gone from being kind of cool to becoming an omnipresent Band-Aid for fixing everything from your weight to your relationship to your achievement level. Unveiling here the kind of cutting-edge research that has made them giants in their fields, Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson show us the truth about what meditation can really do for us, as well as exactly how to get the most out of it.<br /><br />Sweeping away common misconceptions and neuromythology to open readers' eyes to the ways data has been distorted to sell mind-training methods, the authors demonstrate that beyond the pleasant <i>states </i>mental exercises can produce, the real payoffs are the lasting personality <i>traits </i>that can result. But short daily doses will not get us to the highest level of lasting positive change--ev