Tag: Psychology
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BR343) “Quit” Book Review
Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away by Annie Duke. 3/5 rating. 247 pages. Book #5 of 2024. Finished January 28, 2024. This book focuses on Annie’s idea: “Success does not lie in sticking to things. It lies in picking the right thing to stick to and quitting the rest.” We give a…
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BR340) “The Psychology of Money” Book Review
The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness by Morgan Housel. 3/5 rating. 81 pages. Book #2 of 2024. Read January 15, 2024. This is a short book about why we make the decisions we do about money, and how we can make better ones. I liked a lot of Morgan’s ideas…
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BR204) “Grit” Book Review
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth. 4/5 rating. 291 pages. Book #40 of 2021. Read April 30, 2021. This is a wonderful book about the importance of grit in our lives. As she says: “[W]hat we accomplish in the marathon of life depends tremendously on our grit – our passion and…
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BR197) “Nudge” Book Review
Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein. 3/5 rating. 271 pages. Book #33 of 2021. Read April 21, 2021. This is a book all about using the inherent psychological and sociological norms of humans to push us into improved decision-making. The authors are huge proponents of what they…
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BR175) “Against Empathy” Book Review
Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion by Paul Bloom. 2/5 rating. 241 pages. Book #11 of 2021. Read January 30, 2021. This book puts forth the case against empathy as king in the moral domain. While someone making the case that empathy does not lead inevitably to good moral outcomes seems insane, Paul makes…
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BR71) Stumbling on Happiness Book Review
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert. 4/5 rating. Book #146 of 2019. Read December 25, 2019. This was a very interesting, light-hearted, yet informative, psychology book. Daniel lays out many of the ways that our brains are really pretty bad at remembering, explaining our current feelings, and properly imagining both the positive and negative aspects…