To paraphrase William Jones, our entire life is a formed from habits, for good and for bad, and they lead us to our destiny. This is a book that can help in all aspects of our lives – from losing weight to building great teams, and at an individual and group level. The narrative style ensures that what could have been a prescriptive book is actually an enlightening and entertaining one!
‘Empathy’ is like the hero whom no one can hate. But the reading I have done in the past, and my own thoughts and experiences have led me to believe that empathy isn’t really the best guide for decision making of the moral or even day to day kind! While the book preaches to that choir very well, it doesn’t really make the case for rational compassion well enough.
Michael S. Gazzaniga Our notion of the mind is a single “me” that consciously acts and reacts on/to stimuli. But a more accurate description would be several modules that work in tandem to define and dictate what we could call the mind/consciousness. A lot of this mind’s activities is dictated by factors that have been […]
Siddhartha Mukherjee “As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.” probably best describes this book for me. My understanding of the subject grew manifold after reading this book, but I also realised how little we know! Perhaps the one question we all seek an answer to is “Why are we […]
Jean-François Revel, Matthieu Ricard A biologist turned Buddhist in conversation with a philosopher about the meaning of life. If that isn’t interesting by itself, they happen to be son and father. (respectively) World views separated by time and distance. What really works is that Matthieu Ricard and Jean-François Revel have absolute clarity on the points […]