Most of us are told, from school onwards, to concentrate, to revise, to remember — and almost never shown how any of that is actually done. The few who work it out for themselves are called gifted. Everyone else is told to try harder. Chandana Sooriyabandara's argument starts from that gap, and sets out to supply the missing instructions.
The subject is the brain's habit of conserving effort. Sooriyabandara describes a mind shaped by evolution to hoard energy, dodge exertion and take the easiest available route, and treats that tendency not as a character flaw to be scolded out of a person but as a system with rules that can be learned and worked with. The book translates neuroscience into practical terms, with the aim of giving a reader methods they can apply to their own studying, thinking and attention rather than a theory to admire from a distance.
This is the official English edition of Sooriyabandara's Sinhala book Kammali Mole (කම්මැළි මොළේ), published by M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd of Colombo. It will suit students facing examinations, anyone returning to serious study later in life, and readers who have spent years being told they lack discipline and suspect the problem lies elsewhere. Those who have read the Sinhala original, or who want to pass it on to English-reading family and colleagues abroad, now have a version they can share.
- Author: Chandana Sooriyabandara
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9789552134869
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