Hard to Be Human : Overcoming Our Five Cognitive Design Flaws.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cadsby, Ted, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brain--Popular works.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Hard to Be Human

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Dundurn Press, 2021.

Summary:

We are oddly paradoxical creatures who long to be happy while creating our own suffering. We replay past anguish, anticipate future distress, and stew in self-righteous anger. In Hard to Be Human, Ted Cadsby focuses on five cognitive design flaws that foster underthinking and overreacting, and reveals powerful strategies to overcome them.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title Page

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Introduction: Other Animals Have It Easier

Part 1: The Human Predicament

1 Big Cognitive Problem

2 Huge Metacognitive Solution

Part 2: A Fix for Every Flaw

3 Flaw #1: We're Greedy Reductionists

4 Fix #1: Reining in Reductionism

5 Flaw #2: We're Addicted to Certainty

6 Fix #2: Breaking Our Addiction

7 Flaw #3: We Hold Ourselves Emotionally Hostage

8 Fix #3: Freeing the Hostage

9 Flaw #4: We Compete with Ourselves

10 Fix #4: Being at One with Ourselves

11 Flaw #5: We Misdirect Our Need for Meaning

12 Fix #5: Pursuing the Meaning Feeling

Conclusion: We're Still in Beta

Notes

Index

About the Author

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781459748859

1459748859

OCLC:

1250487635