![]() ![]() A better life doesn’t need to look like a massive change-like our beloved dogs who already view us as our best selves, it’s already much closer than you think. The most surprising truth Davies offers us spreads across these pages like wildfire: you too can lead an optimally good life, not through uprooting your life from the ground up, but from adapting your mentality to your given present. ![]() Professor Jim Davies' fascinating and highly accessible book, Riveted, reveals the evolutionary underpinnings of why we find things compelling, from art to religion and from sports to superstition. ![]() Davies proves why multitasking is bad for you, when a little unmindfulness can be good for you, how to best justify which charities to donate to, and how to hack your brain. The past 20 years have seen a remarkable flourishing of scientific research into exactly these kinds of questions. Where most books imagine solutions that, when enacted, fail to fundamentally improve our lives, Jim Davies grounds his research in cognitive science to show you not only what works, but how much it works.īeing the Person Your Dog Thinks You Are shows us how we can use science to become our best selves, using resources we already have within our own brains.ĭavies' book challenges and inspires us to approach the big picture while also staying mindful of the everyday details in real life. Why do we feel like in order to be productive, happy, or good, we must sacrifice everything else? Is it possible to feel all three at once? Without even knowing it, we’re doing things everyday to sabotage ourselves and our societies, habits that prevent us from optimizing long term happiness. A crisp and sparkling blend of cognitive science and human behavior that offers meaningful and attainable pathways towards becoming our best selves. ![]()
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