Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior by Leonard MlodinowMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic started, Coursera offered hundreds of really great courses for free. I took many of them, but the one that really stuck with me was about social psychology. Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior by Leonard Mlodinow is the perfect companion to that course. Many of the examples are the same or similar to ones that I learned about in class. However, revisiting them helped to reinforce the lessons. The writing is engaging, and the science is accessible to everyone.
If you want to keep believing in free will, don't read this book. The main takeaway for me is from birth, nature and nurture play a role in shaping who you are to the point that even when you think you are making a choice or decision without any bias, you aren't. That's how our brains work. If you are interested in social psychology, the human brain, and/or what makes you tick, you should definitely read this book.
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