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Why do we routinely choose options that don't meet our short-term needs and undermine our long-term goals? Why do we willingly expose ourselves to temptations that undercut our hard-fought progress to overcome addictions? Why are we prone to assigning meaning to statistically common... read more
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On October 9, 1997, observers from the Point Reyes Bird Observatory witnessed a killer whale clashing with a great white shark near Farallon Island, 26 miles off the coast of San Francisco.
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Foreword by Wray Herbert
Introduction: Hacking the Cognitive Compass
Part 1: Certainty & the Seduction of Chance
Chapter 1: Adventures in Certainty
Chapter 2: Seductive Patterns & Smoking Monkeys
Part 2: Drifting, Discounting & Escaping
Chapter 3: Why a Happy Brain Discounts the Future
Chapter 4: The Magnetism of Autopilot
Chapter 5: Immersion and the Great Escape
Part 3: Motivation, Restraint & Regret
Chapter 6: Revving Your Engine in Idle
Chapter 7: Writing Promises on an Etch-a-Sketch
Chapter 8: Want, Get, Regret, Repeat
Part 4: Social Ebbs & Influential Flows
Chapter 9: Socializing with Monkeys Like Us
Chapter 10: The Great Truth Rub Off
Chapter 11: How Your Brain Catches Psychosocial Colds
Chapter 12: The Hidden Power of Stuff
Part 5: Memory & Modeling
Chapter 13: Your Mind in Rewrites
Chapter 14: Born to Copy, Learn to Practice
Part 6: Nothing So Pure as Action
Chapter 15: Mind the Gap
Chapter 16: Shake Your Meaning Maker
Special Section 1: Recommended Resources
Special Section 2: Even more
Acknowledgments
Notes
Authors & Contributors edit
- David DiSalvo (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 978-1-61614-483-8
Page Count: 309
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 978-1-61614-483-8
Page Count: 309
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: BF575 H27 D57 2011
- Dewey: 152.4'2
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