isnotnull's review against another edition
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
3.75
veryperi22's review
4.0
Any deficiency in rating are my own.
Highly entertaining, sometimes difficult to follow and understand, always fascinating.
Highly entertaining, sometimes difficult to follow and understand, always fascinating.
embingham's review
2.0
Meh. There were some interesting parts, but overall, this book left me quite disappointed. I suppose I was hoping for, and expecting, more of "how the BRAIN works." This book felt like a lot of philosophy and guess work rather than science. There was a lot of rambling that I had a hard time seeing the purpose of. Overall, not one that I would recommend.
skyclad's review
1.0
This book is out of date. I chose not to waste any more time listening to it when I realized it was written in the mid 1990's.
lottiedollar's review
2.0
Some of it was interesting, how we are built, but I found it quite boring, personally.
ben_sutter's review
5.0
A great book for understanding human behaviour & decision making. It builds mental models and frameworks with strong explanatory power for understanding the human mind. This book impacts the way you view your own behaviour and the behaviour of others by exposing you to a deeper evolution-based grounding to the very complex topic of the human mind.
It is a big book containing just 8 chapters approaching 80-100 pages each . The conclusions arrived at bring insight and enlightenment and are well worth the journey - but be warned - many of these conclusions are preceded by the slow and careful development of ideas, which on occasion can be painstakingly dreary to the reader with non-specialist expertise in this topic (e.g. me). However, the journey (even the dreary bits) is worth it - this book can open your mind - there is much to be gained in reading it.
It is a big book containing just 8 chapters approaching 80-100 pages each . The conclusions arrived at bring insight and enlightenment and are well worth the journey - but be warned - many of these conclusions are preceded by the slow and careful development of ideas, which on occasion can be painstakingly dreary to the reader with non-specialist expertise in this topic (e.g. me). However, the journey (even the dreary bits) is worth it - this book can open your mind - there is much to be gained in reading it.