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Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.17 — 570,571 ratings — published 2011
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,216,846 ratings — published 2011
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.13 — 552,385 ratings — published 2012
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.19 — 850,931 ratings — published 2008
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.01 — 846,884 ratings — published 2000
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.01 — 888,833 ratings — published 2005
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as brainy)
avg rating 3.96 — 616,656 ratings — published 2005
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,216,030 ratings — published 2018
Love on the Brain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as brainy)
avg rating 3.90 — 599,587 ratings — published 2022
The Love Hypothesis (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,759,572 ratings — published 2021
Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as brainy)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,719 ratings — published 2016
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.51 — 162,069 ratings — published 2013
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.04 — 448,055 ratings — published 1997
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.48 — 114,214 ratings — published 2010
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as brainy)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,412 ratings — published 1985
Love, Theoretically (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.08 — 615,850 ratings — published 2023
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.53 — 157,422 ratings — published 2020
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.22 — 415,121 ratings — published 2003
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.08 — 138,700 ratings — published 2016
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,285,402 ratings — published 1949
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.10 — 171,267 ratings — published 2006
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as brainy)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,261,632 ratings — published 1932
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.21 — 470,129 ratings — published 1988
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.52 — 115,605 ratings — published 2010
Stories of Your Life and Others (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.25 — 121,523 ratings — published 2002
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.19 — 209,292 ratings — published 2006
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.09 — 60,162 ratings — published 2012
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.22 — 422,560 ratings — published 2020
The Au Pair Affair (Big Shots, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 3.59 — 82,599 ratings — published 2024
The High 5 Habit: Take Control of Your Life with One Simple Habit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.22 — 14,352 ratings — published 2021
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 3.79 — 463,737 ratings — published 2018
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 3.97 — 189,998 ratings — published 2023
Sophie’s World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 3.97 — 277,051 ratings — published 1991
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.70 — 38,430 ratings — published 2021
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.36 — 61,503 ratings — published 2020
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 3.92 — 118,054 ratings — published 2014
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.00 — 331,297 ratings — published 2019
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.31 — 96,285 ratings — published 2019
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.15 — 434,677 ratings — published 1997
Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.04 — 7,987 ratings — published 2020
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.27 — 85,074 ratings — published 2018
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.20 — 64,028 ratings — published 2012
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.08 — 469,461 ratings — published 2006
How the Brain Lost Its Mind: Sex, Hysteria, and the Riddle of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 3.63 — 483 ratings — published 2019
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.02 — 126,802 ratings — published 1999
A Little History of Philosophy (Little Histories)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.12 — 15,298 ratings — published 2011
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.05 — 92,770 ratings — published 2019
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.49 — 212,638 ratings — published 2014
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,217 ratings — published 2018
“Quantum Mechanics can indeed be extremely complex to grasp, but when we talk about Consciousness, with decades of rigorous studies on the human brain we have realized that actually, there is no other phenomenon in the entire universe that is simpler than the majestic phenomenon of Consciousness.
'If you think you have a solution to the problem of consciousness, you haven’t understood the problem.' This age-old metaphysical and philosophical argument is strictly not true. If you are sufficiently clear-sighted enough, you can realize the problem itself was a matter of the past when we didn’t have insight into the neurological basis of consciousness. And today it is common knowledge in Neuroscience that, all mesmerizing features of the Human Mind, including the glorious Human Consciousness, are born from the tiny specks of jelly inside your head.”
― What is Mind?
'If you think you have a solution to the problem of consciousness, you haven’t understood the problem.' This age-old metaphysical and philosophical argument is strictly not true. If you are sufficiently clear-sighted enough, you can realize the problem itself was a matter of the past when we didn’t have insight into the neurological basis of consciousness. And today it is common knowledge in Neuroscience that, all mesmerizing features of the Human Mind, including the glorious Human Consciousness, are born from the tiny specks of jelly inside your head.”
― What is Mind?
“I conquer you without a fight,
I steal your strength, but grant you light.
I make you fall, yet help you rise,
I wound your heart to open your eyes.
I take your ground, I make you switch
I ask for all, yet leave you rich,
I am the loss that feels like gain,
The quiet joy inside your pain.
Who am I?”
― Mind-Bending Riddles Inspired by Philosophy | With Answers and Explanations | Philosophical Riddles | Philosophy in Rhymes : From Plato, Socrates, Lao Tzu, the Stoics, Epicurus, Buddhism, Rumi
I steal your strength, but grant you light.
I make you fall, yet help you rise,
I wound your heart to open your eyes.
I take your ground, I make you switch
I ask for all, yet leave you rich,
I am the loss that feels like gain,
The quiet joy inside your pain.
Who am I?”
― Mind-Bending Riddles Inspired by Philosophy | With Answers and Explanations | Philosophical Riddles | Philosophy in Rhymes : From Plato, Socrates, Lao Tzu, the Stoics, Epicurus, Buddhism, Rumi
