I think both those books are nice guides to a happy and healthy life, in their own ways. With the first one, I realized that we should stop loving invisible mans, and loving more other real human beings. We shouldn't be thanking for our meal to some Flying Spaguetti Monster, but we should thank all the real people involved in the production of the food we are taking. Real people.
That's not the only important message, but you should read it yourself if you want to find out more
With the second book, my personal intuitition that we should be using our right brains more than we do nowadays. I started to think about this probably after watching a documentary about Jill Bolte Taylor, and reading her "Stroke of Insight". You can also check her TED presentation. That's the main reason I started learning playing the piano last year. Music is something I never learned before, and should do something good to my right brain.
The guys at ETC, as Don Marinelli explains in "The Comet & The Tornado", try that students use both brain hemispheres, marrying art and technology. It's also good news to hear that the most appropriate media for that is videogames. It means that I'm in the right place! I'm a programmer, so much left-brained. But it's just awesome to work with artists to make those small pieces of both art and entertainment that we call videogames.
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