The Resource Hard to be human : overcoming our 5 cognitive design flaws, Ted Cadsby
Hard to be human : overcoming our 5 cognitive design flaws, Ted Cadsby
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- Summary
- "Powerful strategies to combat the design flaws of the human brain that make life in the twenty-first century unreasonably difficult. If they could study us the way we study them, other animals 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 while creating our own suffering, who struggle to adapt to a confusing world that we ourselves created. In our defense, we haven't yet mastered our neuron-packed brains, whose incredible complexity evolved in somewhat haphazard ways over millennia in a very different world than today's, giving rise to the five big design flaws of the human mind: greedy reductionism, which causes us to oversimplify; certainty addiction, which makes us overconfident; emotional hostage-taking, where we overreact to threats and engage in rumination; competing selves, where we are burdened with inner conflict; and misguided meaning, where we constantly struggle to make sense of things. Hard to Be Human corrals the best insights from psychology, neuroscience, physics, and philosophy to reveal powerful strategies for the five big battles we each face in the war with ourselves. Other animals have a simpler life, but we can have it easier, too."--
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- eng
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- Hard to be human : overcoming our 5 cognitive design flaws
- Title
- Hard to be human
- Title remainder
- overcoming our 5 cognitive design flaws
- Statement of responsibility
- Ted Cadsby
- Subject
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- Cerveau -- Ouvrages de vulgarisation
- Cognition
- Cognition -- Ouvrages de vulgarisation
- Cognition -- Popular works
- Cognitive psychology
- Cognitive psychology -- Popular works
- Pensée
- Brain
- Psychologie cognitive -- Ouvrages de vulgarisation
- Thought and thinking
- Thought and thinking
- thinking
- Popular works
- Brain -- Popular works
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Powerful strategies to combat the design flaws of the human brain that make life in the twenty-first century unreasonably difficult. If they could study us the way we study them, other animals 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 while creating our own suffering, who struggle to adapt to a confusing world that we ourselves created. In our defense, we haven't yet mastered our neuron-packed brains, whose incredible complexity evolved in somewhat haphazard ways over millennia in a very different world than today's, giving rise to the five big design flaws of the human mind: greedy reductionism, which causes us to oversimplify; certainty addiction, which makes us overconfident; emotional hostage-taking, where we overreact to threats and engage in rumination; competing selves, where we are burdened with inner conflict; and misguided meaning, where we constantly struggle to make sense of things. Hard to Be Human corrals the best insights from psychology, neuroscience, physics, and philosophy to reveal powerful strategies for the five big battles we each face in the war with ourselves. Other animals have a simpler life, but we can have it easier, too."--
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- Cadsby, Ted
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- Cognitive psychology
- Cognition
- Brain
- Thought and thinking
- Psychologie cognitive
- Cognition
- Cerveau
- Pensée
- thinking
- Brain
- Cognition
- Cognitive psychology
- Thought and thinking
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- Hard to be human : overcoming our 5 cognitive design flaws, Ted Cadsby
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- text
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- txt
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- 1227692082
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- 245 pages cm
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- 9781459748842
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- unmediated
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- n
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- WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1227692082
- Label
- Hard to be human : overcoming our 5 cognitive design flaws, Ted Cadsby
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1227692082
- Extent
- 245 pages cm
- Isbn
- 9781459748842
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Note
- WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1227692082
Subject
- Cerveau -- Ouvrages de vulgarisation
- Cognition
- Cognition -- Ouvrages de vulgarisation
- Cognition -- Popular works
- Cognitive psychology
- Cognitive psychology -- Popular works
- Pensée
- Brain
- Psychologie cognitive -- Ouvrages de vulgarisation
- Thought and thinking
- Thought and thinking
- thinking
- Popular works
- Brain -- Popular works
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