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– Personal ramblings, thinly veiled as thoughts on what I read

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Cognitive Science, Non-Fiction, Psychology, Science  1 Comment

May 12, 2023May 11, 2023

You Are Not So Smart – David McRaney

We live in a world that gets scarier the more you learn about it. It also gets more interesting.

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History, Memoir, Mental Health, Non-Fiction, Psychology, Self-Help, Trauma  0 Comments

December 24, 2021June 14, 2021

Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor E. Frankl

A fascinating cross between a self-help book and a memoir, although the former falls a little short.

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Atheism, Evolutionary Psychology, Non-Fiction, Psychology, Religion  0 Comments

September 4, 2020September 1, 2020

Alpha God – Hector A. Garcia

I don’t normally go too much into myself in these reviews, but I think in this case it may be

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Cognitive Science, Non-Fiction, Psychology  0 Comments

August 21, 2020August 10, 2020

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst – Robert M. Sapolsky

There is a point of diminishing returns with being interdisciplinary. I thing this book may have missed that point.

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Mental Health, Non-Fiction, Psychology, Self-Help  0 Comments

December 25, 2019December 25, 2019

Unfu*k Yourself – Gary John Bishop

I decided to see if living by the principles of a self-help book for one calander year would make a difference in my life.

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August 23, 2019April 15, 2019

Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman

There is a very little I can say about this short of ‘please go read it’

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Mental Health, Non-Fiction, Psychology, Science, Trauma, Uncategorized  0 Comments

February 8, 2019November 11, 2018

The Body Keeps The Score – Bessel van der Kolk

Most of us are silly enough to believe that were WE to suffer from Trauma, we would know what to do.

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