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How the Mind Works
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Why do fools fall in love? Why does a man's annual salary, on average, increase $600 with each inch of his height? When a crack dealer guns down a rival, how is he just like Alexander Hamilton, whose face is on the ten-dollar bill? How do optical illusions function as windows on the human soul? Cheerful, cheeky, occasionally outrageous MIT psycholog... »
Don't Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking
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One of my favorite quotes from this book: "why do we hold many pseudoscientific beliefs? Probably the main reason is that we want to believe them. As the noted astronomer Carl Sagan observed, pseudoscience and other weird beliefs often meet our emotional needs [...] we want simplicity in our lives, and belief in superstition, fate, the s... »
How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition
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The tome "How Learners Learn" is what your worthless education courses SHOULD have been teaching you, but didn't because the politicians and the professors would rather push their agendas. If the teacher is to actually teach--convey information from one human to another--then the teacher must know how humans acquire information. That's what this book g... »
Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romant
There was a lot of detailed scientific information that was actually quite interesting to learn about and also to retain. A lot of the things I read in he... »
A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information A
Dan articulated all of the things that are percolating underneath the surface in corporate America. Having spent the past 13 years in the Fortune 200, I'... »
The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the
Neuropsychiatrist Jeffrey Schwartz stood at the precipice of a great divide: a divide between classical physics and quantum physics, between behaviorism... »
In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Sci
I don't believe many people would choose to give up a promising career as psychiatrist in order to spend their life studying the reaction of a snail neuro... »
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Huma
I read --I studied, I should say-- Damasio's book because of my interest in the "no self" (no soul, no ego) characteristic of the Buddha's Teachings. It p... »
A User's Guide to the Brain: Perception, Attent
Before consulting with customer service, it's always a good idea to read the manual. Psychiatrist John Ratey has condensed years of research on one of the... »
Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscio
when reading Gladwell's Blink, I kept hoping that by the end of the book something about how my brain worked would be revealed. Well, I got a sense that... »
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