Hard to Be Human : Overcoming Our Five Cognitive Design Flaws.
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- Author/Creator:
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- Language:
- English
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- 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:
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- 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.
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- OCLC:
- 1250487635
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