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Pros
Birth, nature and nurture play a role in shaping who you are. The last chapter is about how our attachment to self can influence decisions. This book is an excellent complement to books on cognitive biases.
As a different author once said the human brain is the most powerful computer ever made, and it is built by unskilled workers. That is the reason why we solve problems at night. We have more ram available for it. This apparently has evolutionary and a... Read More
Mlodinow has a sense of humor and writes complex subjects in an easy to comprehend fashion. He uses several captivating examples of how our unconscious rules our behavior without our knowledge. He sometimes inserts low brow humor into his work and it'... Read More
It is an intriguing and enticing introduction to the advantages and disadvantages of our human makeup, conscious and subconscious selves alike. Written in a pleasing conversational style. Our subliminal worlds remain hidden within ourselves and perhap... Read More
The book discusses how the unconscious mind dictates our day-to-day life. It talks about how our unconscious mind adds false memories and mixes in some preconceived notions we have about the world. The next chapter examines how our subconscious plays ... Read More
Cons
The only interesting part in the book is the history of the german (or prussian) horse, but even here he can't attain that the mystery that made the horse mark the answer was something so familiar to a neurologist as it is a cue in intonation that mar... Read More
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Quality
I will always be infatuated with the human mind
The book shows how the brain interprets the different categories and ends up with the final result
To be honest i doubt that i would have read this book unless i had to finish the product
It was done 50 times on one store and hundreds of times in other stores with the full cooperation of the stores involved
Price
The book came in be good condition at a very reasonable price
Packaging/appearance
Surprisingly you might want to have some tissues handy as it hits right in the feels
He brings a great sense of humor to his writing and he writes simply without completely diluting the subject matter
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- This product had a total of 1,108 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 31 2022.
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Our conscious then rationalizes from the illusion its given
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We know so little about the role of our unconscious mind in our decision process
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And until you understand how the unconscious works you are pretty much clueless as to why you are as you are
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Where once we imagined ourselves in control of our thoughts and decisions especially voting preferences though freud allowed us little control at all now we’re presented with experiments which show that control manipulated in the simplest scariest ways
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As an aspiring dreaming author i found the section on how we delude ourselves overvaluing our own skills and undervaluing others’ quite depressing
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However please don’t force me to choose which jam i prefer because i can promise i’ll change my mind in an eyeblink
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Disclosure i didn’t see the subliminal messages on the cover
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If i had i probably wouldn’t have bought it
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