Hard to Be Human: Overcoming Our Five Cognitive Design Flaws Cadsby Ted
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…
Specifikacia Hard to Be Human: Overcoming Our Five Cognitive Design Flaws Cadsby Ted
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;