Delusion Is Good
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Delusion Is Good
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Author : Robert Joseph Ahola
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2001-08-26
Delusion Is Good written by Robert Joseph Ahola and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-08-26 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
If you could take one book with you that would be your complete guidebook to rethinking every aspect of your life, Delusion is Good would be that book. Its subtitle, "A Visionary Guide to Extraordinary Outcomes" tells you a great deal about this remarkabla amalgamation of some of the great human behavior guidelines of all time, plus some very new ways of looking at life as we see it in this exciting and challenging new Millennium. For anyone who ever wanted to tap the visionary potentals in themselves, Delusion is Good may just be the consummate sourcebook for the next couple of decades at least.
Useful Delusions The Power And Paradox Of The Self Deceiving Brain
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Author : Shankar Vedantam
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2021-03-02
Useful Delusions The Power And Paradox Of The Self Deceiving Brain written by Shankar Vedantam and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-02 with Psychology categories.
A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2021 A Next Big Idea Club Best Nonfiction of 2021 From the New York Times best-selling author and host of Hidden Brain comes a thought-provoking look at the role of self-deception in human flourishing. Self-deception does terrible harm to us, to our communities, and to the planet. But if it is so bad for us, why is it ubiquitous? In Useful Delusions, Shankar Vedantam and Bill Mesler argue that, paradoxically, self-deception can also play a vital role in our success and well-being. The lies we tell ourselves sustain our daily interactions with friends, lovers, and coworkers. They can explain why some people live longer than others, why some couples remain in love and others don’t, why some nations hold together while others splinter. Filled with powerful personal stories and drawing on new insights in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy, Useful Delusions offers a fascinating tour of what it really means to be human.
Is Faith Delusion
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Author : Andrew Sims
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2009-05-09
Is Faith Delusion written by Andrew Sims and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-09 with Religion categories.
How, in a scientifically and technologically advanced age, can people still believe in God? Andrew Sims examines both the connection and the division between Christian faith and psychiatry.
The Good Delusion An Unethical Response To Richard Dawkins The God Delusion
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Author : Rodney Jenman
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2010-01-07
The Good Delusion An Unethical Response To Richard Dawkins The God Delusion written by Rodney Jenman and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-07 with categories.
An unreligious and unusual response to Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion" which largely discusses ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche and Buddhism.This book invites atheism in a direction that has not been yet been widely trodden with regards to its fundamental arguments, giving it in an unexpected and refreshingly unusual challenge.The philosophical root of atheism is challenged in a manner that Dawkins breezes over that he implicitly subscribes to and does not discuss at great length, which is an old philosophical standpoint that has interested philosophers for hundreds, if not thousands of years before Dawkins.Be prepared to never look at sanctity in the same way again as Jenman makes a highly strange, unethical and entertaining romp through the current foundations of human belief systems under the fire of modern scientific excellence, without claiming that Dawkins has made any real errors or arguing for the existence of any metaphysical or supernatural reality.
The Growth Delusion
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Author : David Pilling
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-01-25
The Growth Delusion written by David Pilling and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-25 with Business & Economics categories.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2019 'A near miracle' Ha-Joon Chang, author of 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism According to the economy, we have never been wealthier or happier. So why doesn't it feel that way? The Growth Delusion explores how we prioritise growth maximisation without stopping to think about the costs. So much of what is important to our well-being, from safe streets to sound minds, lies outside the purview of statistics. In a book that is both thought-provoking and entertaining, David Pilling argues that our steadfast loyalty to growth is informing misguided policies, and proposes different criteria for measuring our success.
The Hidden Brain
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Author : Shankar Vedantam
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-01-19
The Hidden Brain written by Shankar Vedantam and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-19 with Social Science categories.
The hidden brain is the voice in our ear when we make the most important decisions in our lives—but we’re never aware of it. The hidden brain decides whom we fall in love with and whom we hate. It tells us to vote for the white candidate and convict the dark-skinned defendant, to hire the thin woman but pay her less than the man doing the same job. It can direct us to safety when disaster strikes and move us to extraordinary acts of altruism. But it can also be manipulated to turn an ordinary person into a suicide terrorist or a group of bystanders into a mob. In a series of compulsively readable narratives, Shankar Vedantam journeys through the latest discoveries in neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral science to uncover the darkest corner of our minds and its decisive impact on the choices we make as individuals and as a society. Filled with fascinating characters, dramatic storytelling, and cutting-edge science, this is an engrossing exploration of the secrets our brains keep from us—and how they are revealed.
The Great American Delusion
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Author : Patrick Davies
language : en
Publisher: Caravan Books UK
Release Date : 2020-10-27
The Great American Delusion written by Patrick Davies and has been published by Caravan Books UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-27 with Political Science categories.
Something has been going badly wrong in America. But what is really happening, why, and what does it mean? Could the US itself now be the greatest threat to the future of the West? What does Joe Biden need to do to get America back on track? In this fascinating account of America today, Patrick Davies, former British Deputy Ambassador to the US, sets out to understand how America, blinded by myths of its own exceptionalism, has failed to tackle serious political, social and economic problems which are exacerbating divisions in its society, poisoning its politics and ultimately fuelling America’s decline. The Great American Delusion asks whether, with global power shifting eastwards, the US can save itself and, with it, the Western world before it’s too late. Patrick Davies worked alongside the Obama and Trump White Houses for five years. He has more than 30 years’ experience of America, its people and its politics.
Delusions Of Gender How Our Minds Society And Neurosexism Create Difference
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Author : Cordelia Fine
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2010-08-30
Delusions Of Gender How Our Minds Society And Neurosexism Create Difference written by Cordelia Fine and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-30 with Social Science categories.
“[Fine’s] sharp tongue is tempered with humor. . . . Read this book and see how complex and fascinating the whole issue is.”—The New York Times It’s the twenty-first century, and although we tried to rear unisex children—boys who play with dolls and girls who like trucks—we failed. Even though the glass ceiling is cracked, most women stay comfortably beneath it. And everywhere we hear about vitally important “hardwired” differences between male and female brains. The neuroscience that we read about in magazines, newspaper articles, books, and sometimes even scientific journals increasingly tells a tale of two brains, and the result is more often than not a validation of the status quo. Women, it seems, are just too intuitive for math; men too focused for housework. Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience and psychology, Cordelia Fine debunks the myth of hardwired differences between men’s and women’s brains, unraveling the evidence behind such claims as men’s brains aren’t wired for empathy and women’s brains aren’t made to fix cars. She then goes one step further, offering a very different explanation of the dissimilarities between men’s and women’s behavior. Instead of a “male brain” and a “female brain,” Fine gives us a glimpse of plastic, mutable minds that are continuously influenced by cultural assumptions about gender. Passionately argued and unfailingly astute, Delusions of Gender provides us with a much-needed corrective to the belief that men’s and women’s brains are intrinsically different—a belief that, as Fine shows with insight and humor, all too often works to the detriment of ourselves and our society.
Memoirs Of Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds
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Author : Charles MacKay
language : en
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
Release Date : 2008-07-01
Memoirs Of Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds written by Charles MacKay and has been published by IndyPublish.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-01 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
In reading the history of nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities; their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first. We see one nation suddenly seized, from its highest to its lowest members, with a fierce desire of military glory; another as suddenly becoming crazed upon a religious scruple, and neither of them recovering its senses until it has shed rivers of blood and sowed a harvest of groans and tears, to be reaped by its posterity. At an early age in the annals of Europe its population lost their wits about the Sepulchre of Jesus, and crowded in frenzied multitudes to the Holy Land: another age went mad for fear of the Devil, and offered up hundreds of thousands of victims to the delusion of witchcraft. At another time, the many became crazed on the subject of the Philosopher's Stone, and committed follies till then unheard of in the pursuit. It was once thought a venial offence in very many countries of Europe to destroy an enemy by slow poison. Persons who would have revolted at the idea of stabbing a man to the heart, drugged his pottage without scruple. Ladies of gentle birth and manners caught the contagion of murder, until poisoning, under their auspices, became quite fashionable. Some delusions, though notorious to all the world, have subsisted for ages, flourishing as widely among civilized and polished nations as among theearly barbarians with whom they originated, -- that of duelling, for instance, and the belief in omens and divination of the future, which seem to defy the progress of knowledge to eradicate entirely from the popular mind. Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper. To trace the history of the most prominent of these delusions is the object of the present pages. Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
Extraordinary Popular Delusion
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Author : Charles Mackay
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986-04-01
Extraordinary Popular Delusion written by Charles Mackay and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-04-01 with categories.