Choice Theory: A New Psychology of Personal Freedom by William Glasser My best summary of Choice Theory is that unhappiness almost always results from an unsatisfactory relationship, and unsatisfactory relationships almost always involve one person trying to control the other. You can’t control another person, you can only give them information.* This book expands this …
Tag: philosophy
May 22
Book Review: The Psychopath Test
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson The subtitle of this book reads: A Journey Through the Madness Industry, and that’s exactly what this book is like. A journey. It begins when Ronson starts to investigate a mysterious book, copies of which have been sent to various academics around the …
Feb 12
Book Review: Flow
Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi I read this book because it had been mentioned in many bibliographies of books I’ve read in the past couple of years, and because people who have read it said it was amazing. Basically, it talks about how most people feel happiness when they are completely engaged in what they are …
Aug 07
Book Review: Incognito, The Secret Lives of the Brain
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman INCOGNITO is at its heart, a pop science book about neurology. I saw this in the bookstore and pegged it as interesting, but didn’t realize I’d read something else by this author until holding the book in my hands. Eagleman is the author of the …
Apr 24
Book Review: Practical Wisdom
Practical Wisdom: The Right Way To Do the Right Thing by Barry Schwartz This pop science book differs from most of its kind in that it relies heavily on the wisdom of the ancient Greeks, specifically Aristotle. Basically, it’s a treatise on (like the subtitle says) how to do the right thing in the right …