Description
Book SynopsisPowerful strategies to combat the design flaws of the human brain that make life in the twenty-first century unreasonably difficult.
If other animals could study us the way we study them, they would be puzzled by our unique ability to inflict misery on ourselves. We expend a lot of energy replaying past anguish, anticipating future distress, and stewing in self-righteous anger. Other animals would call us out for being oddly paradoxical creatures who long to be happy but who are the source of their own suffering, We worry about things we have no control over. We complain about not being understood while casting a critical eye on others. We stubbornly defend our beliefs despite contradictory evidence. Complicating all of this is our struggle to adapt to a complex world that we created. who struggle to adapt to a confusing world that we ourselves created.
In our defence, we haven't yet mastered our neuron-packed brains, whose incredible complexity ev
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Ted Cadsby's revealing and engaging book demonstrates that we can harness the power in our heads and get out of our own way. A hopeful manual for actually living a better life. * Amanda Lang, bestselling author and award-winning business journalist *
Table of Contents
Introduction: Other Animals Have It Easier
Part 1: The Human Predicament
1. Big Cognitive Problem
2. Huge Metacognitive Solution
Part 2: A Fix for Every Flaw
3. Flaw #1: We’re Greedy Reductionists 4. Fix #1: Reining in Reductionism 5. Flaw #2: We’re Addicted to Certainty 6. Fix #2: Breaking Our Addiction
7. Flaw #3: We Hold Ourselves Emotionally Hostage
8. Fix #3: Freeing the Hostage
9. Flaw #4: We Compete with Ourselves
10. Fix #4: Being at One with Ourselves
11. Flaw #5: We Misdirect Our Need for Meaning
12. Fix #5: Pursuing the Meaning Feeling
Conclusion: We’re Still in Beta
Notes
Index
About the Author
