Our behaviour at any given point is driven by a whole lot of factors – the immediate neurobiological to events that happened millennia ago. Though this is far from an easy read, Robert Sapolsky peels back the layers to give the reader a better sense of what drives behaviour.
My ‘wiring’ has an impact on my work too. The mindset I bring to my profession has an origin story and patterns that have been created over time. Understanding that is a good way to start any rewiring.
Stoicism, and the reading I do, has made me focus more on the self. No, not being selfish, but trying to get a. better sense of why I am the way I am. A book I read recently – Behave – gave me a good starting point.
My 10 favourite reads of 2021, and an equal long list. From blockchains and technology in China to Manhattan society in the 1940s, the list has multiple themes that somehow, on hindsight, seem related- AI, meritocracy, dignity, money, human behaviour, morality, and the future.