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Psychology and the brain
Books I have read about psychology and the brain, brought together across genres, periods and countries.
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👍🏼GoodDavid and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
Malcolm GladwellGladwell always leaves me with the feeling that, after the first two chapters, you have already read the whole book. He has very good stories about people turning a disadvantage into a strength, but some of the conclusions felt more neat than solid.
👍🏼👍🏼Very goodHow to Decide
Annie DukeOf my favorites this year, and something I needed to learn -- understanding decisions, their structure, and how to make them faster. It's helped me understand that many past decisions were analyzed based on the outcome and not the decision itself.
👍🏼👍🏼Very goodHow to win friends and influence people
Dale CarnegieA collection of tips for getting along and getting people to listen to you told through anecdotes and stories, useful in real life.
👍🏼👍🏼⭐️ExcellentYou Are Not So Smart
David McRaney46 ways our brains deceive us and how we're biased about everything.
👍🏼👍🏼⭐️ExcellentFactfulness
Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling y Anna Rosling RönnlundOne of the books that has helped me the most to understand the world through data and to distrust many of the intuitions we take for granted. It explains how our vision is often far more pessimistic than reality and how biases, headlines and our way of thinking make us misinterpret progress. An important book for making better decisions and looking at the world more rigorously.
👍🏼👍🏼Very goodThe Courage to Be Disliked
Ichiro Kishimi y Fumitake KogaA book about Adler's theories in the form of a conversation between a young man and a philosopher: worrying about today, you don't need the approval of others for anything, your past doesn't define your future, self-acceptance.
👍🏼👍🏼Very goodCreativity
John CleeseA classic about creativity written by one of the founders of Monty Python. It explains that creativity is not something magical, but something you can let flow and you're going to get it, and also what elements make it so that it gets there.
👍🏼👍🏼⭐️ExcellentThe elephant in the brain
Kevin Simler, Robin HansonI loved this book, which explains how we deceive ourselves to achieve our goals and how everything we do is based on hidden motives.
👍🏼GoodThe Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
Mark MansonIt's a good book, it helps to organize ideas, but at the same time it's very basic in concepts. I liked reinforcing the idea of how important it is that many things matter little to you to be happy. And knowing where to focus your efforts.
👍🏼👍🏼Very goodThe Undoing Project
Michael LewisMichael Lewis is a very entertaining account of the friendship and work of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, and how they ended up demonstrating all the ways that our brains cheat and make bad decisions.
👍🏼👍🏼⭐️ExcellentThe psychology of money
Morgan HouselOne of the best books I've ever read about financial education and understanding money. It's a book that tells 19 stories about how people understand money, their relationship with it, and good and bad financial decisions.
👍🏼👍🏼Very goodConspiracy Theories
Quassim CassamWhy people believe in conspiracy theories, share them, profile those people, and how these theories usually respond to the political agenda of radical ideologies.
👍🏼Good