![]() ![]() I really liked Eagleman's Incognito, Lehrer's How We Decide, Nørretranders' User Illusion and even Kahneman's plodding Thinking Fast and Slow, so How the MInd Works seemed like a good fit. I got this audiobook on sale for $4.95 and probably wouldn't have gotten it otherwise. There are so many better books on this topic It's holding up very well though and an afterword written only a couple of years ago is included which explains how recent research relates to the book. This book was written more than 10 years ago. The Better Angels of our Nature, and The Blank Slate are easier to pick up just listening once so I would recommend one of those as a place to start. If you consider yourself an intellectual, you'll want to be familiar with Stephen Pinker's work. It requires a lot of concentration or you can do what I did and just listen to everything twice, sometimes three times, until you get it. It's a much easier read than actual research papers, and has wit and good story telling to leven the large doses of information, but it's not easy to follow when listening. As always, he doesn't just make assertions, he backs everything up by explaining the state of the research and the ideas of the researchers in the field (even when those ideas are different from his). ![]() Pinker answers a lot of questions about how and why people think the way they do. ![]() What made the experience of listening to How the Mind Works the most enjoyable? ![]()
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