Hard to Be Human: Overcoming Our Five Cognitive Design Flaws Cadsby Ted
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…
Specifikacia Hard to Be Human: Overcoming Our Five Cognitive Design Flaws Cadsby Ted
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. 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; We expend a lot of energy replaying past anguish, anticipating future distress, and stewing in self-righteous anger.