- What influences our thoughts, feelings and opinions?
- How to better understand ourselves and the world around us?
- Should you rely on logic or emotions when expressing yourself?
- Can we find better ways to have good conversations?
- Is it possible to get rid of prejudices towards one another?
- How do we recognise evidence from anecdotal episodes?
Should each of us work towards finding the answers to all of the above, it’d be enough to enlighten our inner self.
We’re fortunate to live in a world with people that work effortlessly to provide unbiased answers to our questions.
People that dedicate their lives to the pursuit of knowledge and gift that knowledge to us through books.
Books nurture the kind of thoughts that impact our behaviour the most.
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How to Make Sense in a World that Doesn't
Wouldn't it be helpful if everyone were able to think more clearly? To tell the difference between fact and fiction, truth and lies?
But what is truth? Is the difference between "truth" and "untruth" always that simple? In fact, is it ever that simple? If it is, why do people disagree with each other so much? And if it isn't, why do people ever agree with each other at all? Continue reading...
But what is truth? Is the difference between "truth" and "untruth" always that simple? In fact, is it ever that simple? If it is, why do people disagree with each other so much? And if it isn't, why do people ever agree with each other at all? Continue reading...
The author | Eugenia Cheng
A brilliant mathematician, educator, author, public speaker, concert pianist and artist. She has previously taught at the Universities of Cambridge, Chicago and Nice, and holds a PhD in pure mathematics from the University of Cambridge.
The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
This book explores the biology of violence, aggression, and competition – the behaviours and the impulses behind them, the acts of individuals, groups, and states, and when these are bad and good things. It is a book about the ways in which humans harm one another. But it is also a book about the ways in which people do the opposite. What does biology teach us about cooperation, affiliation, reconciliation, empathy, and altruism? Continue reading...
The author | Robert M. Sapolsky
A neuroendocrinology researcher and author. He is currently a professor of biology, and professor of neurology and neurological sciences and, by courtesy, neurosurgery, at Stanford University.
"Much learning does not teach understanding"
- Heraclito
Do biases influence your life?
Can you recognise these invisible enemies that invade our minds?
Should you admit your biases, would you change anything?
Now I'm not looking for absolution
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But before you come to any conclusions
Try walking in my shoes
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But before you come to any conclusions
Try walking in my shoes
Try walking in my shoes
Try walking in my shoes
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