A Good Read: The Geography of Thought

I recently read a book called The Geography of Thought. It’s about how Asians and Westerners think differently and why. It was fascinating to read, especially as I have spent so much of my life between these two cultures.

For those of us in the West, we think linearly—there is a straight line from “A” to “B.” Everything is about reason and logic; two plus two is four. But in Asian thinking, it is circular. Anything you think about, you think about the total picture of it. Going from “A” to “...