Consciousness Explained: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights
What is consciousness made of? Is there a single place in the brain where the self lives, or is the feeling of…
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Nudge: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights
Why do people choose what they chooseeven when the available options are identical? Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein’s Nudge begins with the…
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The Laws of Human Nature: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights
Why can people who understand human behavior still repeatedly misread other people’s motives? Robert Greene’s The Laws of Human Nature is an…
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The Righteous Mind: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights
Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind explores why people often reach moral conclusions quickly and then construct explanations for those conclusions afterward. Drawing…
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Quiet: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights
Susan Cain’s Quiet challenges a cultural assumption that is easy to overlook because it often appears normal: the idea that confident, highly…
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Predictably Irrational: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights
Dan Ariely’s Predictably Irrational challenges the assumption that human beings make decisions by calmly calculating costs and benefits. Its more interesting claim…
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion: Summary & Key Ideas
Why shortcuts work Cialdini’s framework begins with a basic fact about human cognition: people cannot investigate every claim, seller, request, and social…
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Thinking, Fast and Slow: Summary & Key Ideas
Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow examines the ways people form judgments and make decisions. Drawing on decades of behavioral research, Kahneman…
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Mindset: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights
Carol S. Dweck’s Mindset examines how beliefs about ability influence the way people respond to difficulty, criticism and failure. The book’s central…
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The Psychology of Money: Summary and 8 Lessons About Wealth
The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel examines a deceptively difficult problem: people can understand financial mathematics and still make poor financial…
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