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Title: My Big TOE, Book 3: Inner Workings

Author: Thomas W. Campbell

Narrator: Thomas W. Campbell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-31-13

Publisher: Thomas W. Campbell

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 80 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

My Big TOE, written by a nuclear physicist in the language of contemporary culture, unifies science and philosophy, physics and metaphysics, mind and matter, purpose and meaning, the normal and the paranormal. The entirety of human experience (mind, body, and spirit) including both our objective and subjective worlds is brought together under one seamless scientific understanding.

Book 3: Inner Workings

Section 5 presents the formal reality model in detail. In this section, the mechanics of reality are explained. You will find out how the past, present and future are formed, how they can be altered, and how you interact with the larger reality as an individuated unit of consciousness. Here you will find an explanation of inter and intra dimensional awareness and the theoretical possibilities of teleportation, time travel as a few of the more fun ramifications of this reality model are probed.

Section 6 provides the wrap-up that puts everything discussed into an easily understood perspective. Additionally, Section 6 points out My Big TOE's relationship with contemporary science and philosophy. By demonstrating a close conceptual relationship between this TOE and some of the establishment's biggest scientific and philosophic intellectual guns, Section 6 integrates My Big TOE into traditional Western science and philosophy.

Members Reviews:

Written out of a love for mankind . . .

I don't recall anywhere specifically in this book that the author states that this book was written out of a love for mankind. But, there is an undercurrent, or maybe it's more like a carrier wave of a higher vibration, like love, that runs throughout this book, underlying all the information he gives us. Or, that is just my perception.

This information is given to people to help them understand concepts like consciousness - making the right choices - that we have to do the work ourselves. By a better understanding of how the whole Reality system works we can make choices where we evolve, or increase our awareness, or improve our consciousness. Or we can make choices where we devolve.

In any game, wouldn't a player do better if he understood the gameboard's layout, rules, how points are earned, and had some insight into successful strategies?

Thankfully, this third part of the audio version of the massive 3-in-1-volume paperback has come out. For some reason I just could not get through the paperback version. Sentences had to be reread over and over again and I had trouble concentrating on these new concepts. Plus, the book itself weighs about 2.5 lbs and my wrist would ache from holding the book. In this third audio section of My Big TOE the author reviews some concepts from Books One and Two, in case anyone is reading just Book Three, and continues to develop and fine tune information introduced previously. Also, near the end are some really great and applicable quotes from great minds - basically what I got out of the quotes is that people need to be more open-minded about considering, examining and thinking about new or different types of information. Not to shut down before even looking at different ideas or sources.

The audio version is great because the author's voice is easy to listen to, it's intelligent, warm, and light hearted.

I'm currently reading various books on Out of Body experiences by different authors.

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Title: Falling into the Fire

Subtitle: A Psychiatrist's Encounters with the Mind in Crisis

Author: Christine Montross

Narrator: Christine Montross

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 62 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

Falling into the Fire is psychiatrist Christine Montross's thoughtful investigation of the gripping patient encounters that have challenged and deepened her practice. The majority of the patients Montross treats in Falling into the Fire are seen in the locked inpatient wards of a psychiatric hospital; all are in moments of profound crisis. We meet a young woman who habitually commits self-injury, having ingested light bulbs, a box of nails, and a steak knife, among other objects. Her repeated visits to the hospital incite the frustration of the staff, leading Montross to examine how emotion can interfere with proper care. A recent college graduate, dressed in a tunic and declaring that love emanates from everything around him, is brought to the ER by his concerned girlfriend. Is it ecstasy or psychosis? What legal ability do doctors have to hospitalize - and sometimes medicate - a patient against his will? A new mother is admitted with incessant visions of harming her child. Is she psychotic and a danger or does she suffer from obsessive thoughts? Her course of treatment - and her child's future - depends upon whether she receives the correct diagnosis.

Each case study presents its own line of inquiry, leading Montross to seek relevant psychiatric knowledge from diverse sources. A doctor of uncommon curiosity and compassion, Montross discovers lessons in medieval dancing plagues, in leading forensic and neurological research, and in moments from her own life. Beautifully written, deeply felt, Falling into the Fire brings us inside the doctors mind, illuminating the grave human costs of mental illness as well as the challenges of diagnosis and treatment. At once rigorous and meditative, Falling into the Fire is an intimate portrait of psychiatry, allowing the reader to witness the humanity of the practice and the enduring mysteries of the mind.

Members Reviews:

Buy this book! and READ it

oh, this audiobook is awful! Read by the author in a deliberate, listless, extremely careful monotone (someone must have told her to slow down her reading and she went nuts with that advice). Much as I wanted to hear the content, which subject fascinates me, I simply could not keep my mind from straying as I listened. It's a great soporific. Listen at bedtime and you'll zonk right out.

Buy the book. Read it.

Learned a lot from this book

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

If my friend likes books about mental illness then yes..this was a great read.

What did you like best about this story?

I liked the detail that the author went into regarding each patient.

Have you listened to any of Christine Montrosss other performances before? How does this one compare?

I don't think so

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

not really

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Title: Roots of Human Behavior

Author: The Great Courses

Narrator: Professor Barbara J. King

Format: Original Recording

Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-08-13

Publisher: The Great Courses

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 77 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

While human history is usually studied from the perspective of a few hundred years, anthropologists consider deeper causes for the ways we act. Now, in these 12 engrossing lectures, you'll join an expert anthropologist as she opens an enormous window of understanding for you into the thrilling legacy left by our primate past. In these lectures, you'll investigate a wealth of intriguing, provocative questions about our past and our relationship to primates. Are language and technology unique to humans? Have human love and loyalty developed from emotions of our primate cousins? Do the ways in which human males and females relate to each other come from our primate past? Have we inherited a biological tendency for aggression? How much of our behavioral, cognitive, and cultural identity have we inherited from our closest living relatives? How can the study of monkeys and apes lead us to a fuller picture of who we are?

Along the way, you'll learn about the landmark moment in the 1960s when dramatic new findings about apes changed the way we thought about ourselves; you'll look back to a forest in Africa, millions of years ago, when a generalized great ape ancestor split into distinct lineages, then evolved and divided further to create our closest living relatives, and human beings; you'll journey to Asia and the New World, where other anthropoid primates followed their own evolutionary course, separate from the human lineage, yet still connected in important ways; and much more.This thorough and critical examination of our diverse primate roots will allow you to finally see our human family in an entirely new light.

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Members Reviews:

a shortened version of biological anthropology

is essentially a shortened version of the professor's other course on biological anthropology you should decide between the two based on how interested you are on the topic

Best lecture

Barbara King is outstanding in her precise use of language to present a balanced reporting of information at "press time". I appreciated her ability to clearly offer speculation without confusion and clearly present the evidence and best interpretations.

Strong feminist bias

Be prepared for almost no mention of males role in primate society. The authors voice is rather annoying.

Great introduction

What did you love best about Roots of Human Behavior?

Context to explain in the last chapter the human behavior

What about Professor Barbara J. Kings performance did you like?

Very good and entusiastic

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

All chapters

Any additional comments?

A little basic

Would you try another book written by The Great Courses or narrated by Professor Barbara J. King?

Yes. I've had some Great Courses which were excellent.

What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?

This is biology, not fiction.

Did the narration match the pace of the story?

n/a

If this book were a film would you go see it?

n/a

Any additional comments?

I've read other things about primate behaviour and this is fairly basic. I'm sure it's all good stuff, but to me is is earnest more than fascinating.

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Title: Consciousness and Its Implications

Author: The Great Courses

Narrator: Professor Daniel N. Robinson

Format: Original Recording

Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-08-13

Publisher: The Great Courses

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 137 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

Consciousness, a unique and perplexing mental state, has been the subject of debate for philosophers and scientists for millennia. And while it is widely agreed within contemporary philosophy that consciousness is a problem whose solutions are likely to determine the fate of any number of other problems, there is no settled position on the ultimate nature of consciousness. This series of 12 penetrating and thought-provoking lectures by an acclaimed teacher and scholar approaches its subject directly and unflinchingly. Rather than trying to explain away consciousness, or hide behind convenient slogans like "it's all in your brain," Professor Robinson reviews some of the problems that philosophers, psychologists, scientists, and doctors face when taking on this vexing topic, addressing questions that include. What is the most promising way to study this subject? What are the implications that arise from the fact that we have consciousness? What are the ethical and moral issues raised by its presence - or absence?

Professor Robinson draws on the wisdom of the world's greatest thinkers to shed light on the ethical debates involved in any examination of consciousness, including John Locke, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Aristotle. And he also explores the impact of modern physics and medicine on our understanding of the self. Pondering questions from the most fundamental to contemporary quandaries about artificial intelligence, you'll gain new insights into the complexity of how great minds define consciousness.

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Members Reviews:

The Best

I love this lecturer. I've listened to all of his lectures, some of them more than once. He's a polymath and a teacher of the highest order.

The title says it all.

Did you ever want to know what it is to be alive and concious? Have you ever wanted to prove the consciousness of others? These things and so much more are explored thoroughly in this amzing audio book.

Weak course.

Would you try another book from The Great Courses and/or Professor Daniel N. Robinson?

A very weak "not so great" course. The lecturer does not go into enough detail and fails to use clear and concrete examples for rather complex issues. Take Searle's famous Chinese Room scenario or Turing's Imitation Game. Both of these merit a detailed explanation to make sense in the context of the speaker's conceptual system. However, I understood these two concepts only because I had listened to a much better philosophy of mind course (Philosophy of Mind by P. Grimm a truly "great course"). Much of what professor Robinson says in this course may be quite worthwhile, but he does not make himself clear enough. The only worthwhile chapters are 1, 10 and 11.

Excellent as usual

Get anything by Daniel N. Robinson - a witty and entertaining speaker and a very insightful scholar!

A good introduction

A good introduction to the philosophy of consciousness though needed more background to philosophy itself. Without a prior philosophy background the material was often a little inaccessible.

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Title: Dreamland

Subtitle: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep

Author: David K. Randall

Narrator: Andy Caploe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-04-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 113 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

An engrossing examination of the science behind the little-known world of sleep.

Like many of us, journalist David K. Randall never gave sleep much thought. That is, until he began sleepwalking. One midnight crash into a hallway wall sent him on an investigation into the strange science of sleep.

In Dreamland, Randall explores the research that is investigating those dark hours that make up nearly a third of our lives. Taking listeners from military battlefields to childrens bedrooms, Dreamland shows that sleep isn't as simple as it seems. Why did the results of one sleep study change the bookmakers odds for certain Monday Night Football games? Do women sleep differently than men? And if you happen to kill someone while you are sleepwalking, does that count as murder?

This book is a tour of the often odd, sometimes disturbing, and always fascinating things that go on in the peculiar world of sleep. Youll never look at your pillow the same way again.

Members Reviews:

Interesting book, awful reader

Would you try another book from David K. Randall and/or Andy Caploe?

I would read another book by Randall, but not one read by Caploe.

How could the performance have been better?

The reader put on annoyingly goofy voices for people quoted in the book. He read many passages as if they were punchlines in a joke. Really off-putting.

Content average to good; narration AWFUL!!

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

A completely different narrator. Or telling the actual narrator to:(1) Knock off the use of different "voices" (Freud speaking in a German accent; Brits speaking in a variety of different British accents, some of which are appropriate for the social standing of the person being quoted and some of which are not). This was INCREDIBLY IRRITATING in a non-fiction book. This is not a studio performance of a play. It is not Harry Potter, where different voices help you keep the different characters straight. I hated this audiobook's narrator in every chapter without exception, in the majority of paragraphs. Only my interest in the underlying scientific content kept me from asking for a refund. My knowledge that my iPhone was not at fault was the only thing keeping me from throwing it out the window (grin).(2) Knock off the use of overly emphatic and flowery intonation in regular passages. You DON'T have (pause) to (falling tone) EMPhasize every (pause; rising tone) sinGLE WORD in the book... you reALLLY Don't...

What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?

Most interesting: the underlying subject of sleep research.Least interesting: the author's recounting of his own sleepwalking, which goes nowhere. (Normally I would expect this to be very interesting.)

Would you be willing to try another one of Andy Caploes performances?

No. Nope. No way Jose. Unh unh. Noooooooooo! Am I clear?Well, maybe I would, but only if I heard a sample of his work in a particular (other) performance in which he speaks as a normal audiobook narrator does for a scientific book. I don't know if the peculiarities and irritations of this particular performance were his fault, or something he was instructed to do by a misguided producer. If you think you want this book, listen to the audio sample to see if you can handle Caploe's peculiar and distracting reading style.

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Title: The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Volume I: The Making of a Psychologist

Author: Dick Russell

Narrator: Fred Sanders

Format: Unabridged

Length: 21 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-23-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 67 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

The life of the worlds foremost post-Jungian thinker and best-selling author of The Souls Code.

Considered to be the worlds foremost post-Jungian thinker, James Hillman is known as the founder of archetypal psychology and the author of more than 20 books, including the bestselling title The Souls Code. In The Making of a Psychologist, we follow Hillman from his youth in the heyday of Atlantic City, through post-war Paris and Dublin, travels in Africa and Kashmir, and onward to Zurich and the Jung Institute, which appointed him its first director of studies in 1960. This first of a two-volume authorized biography is the result of hundreds of hours of interviews with Hillman and others over a seven-year period. Discover how Hillmans unique psychology was forged through his life experiences and found its basis in the imagination, aesthetics, a return to the Greek pantheon, and the importance of soul-making, and gain a better understanding of the mind of one of the most brilliant psychologists of the 20th century.

Editorial Reviews:

James Hillman, author of the radically famous The Soul's Code, is examined through this magnificently constructed biography, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman: Volume I: The Making of a Psychologist. From his service in the U.S. Navy to his admittance to the renowned C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich, author Dick Russelm manages to tell a brilliantly comprehensive journey of a man. The spectacular accuracy of this piece comes from the numerous interviews with James Hillman and those close to him. And the oratory performance of Fred Sanders lends this remarkable story a polished and authoritative air.

Members Reviews:

Every chapter of Hillman's life was a lesson

Where does The Life and Ideas of James Hillman rank among all the audiobooks youve listened to so far?

One of my all time favorites. Though I have read several of Hillman's books I had never fully appreciated the "man" Hillman was until I completed this beautifully written biography. I hated when I completed the audiobook, as it was as though Hillman was fully alive and present with me the entire time. This is a must listen to book if one is at all interested in the twists and turns of life and how these twists and turns help shape each day we live. For me Hillman was a true genius and should be required reading for anyone who wants to answer the question of "who am I".

What other book might you compare The Life and Ideas of James Hillman to and why?

I would compare this book to any GREAT biography that I have been moved by. I experience each life so individualistic that comparisons are difficult but I have read biographies of Freud, Jung, Gandhi, ML King, Meher Baba, Yogananda, T. Roosevelt, and many more and Hillman's is one of my favorites thus far.

What about Fred Sanderss performance did you like?

I enjoyed his reading as it was neither too slow or too fast. A plesant voice with clear enunciation. I never tired of the sound of his reading.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

My extreme reaction was that I thoroughly enjoyed every bit of it.

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Title: Synchronicity

Subtitle: Nature and Psyche in an Interconnected Universe: Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology

Author: Joseph Cambray

Narrator: Thomas M. Perkins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-01-13

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 58 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

In 1952 C. G. Jung published a paradoxical hypothesis on synchronicity that marked an attempt to expand the western world's conception of the relationship between nature and the psyche. Jung's hypothesis sought to break down the polarizing cause-effect assessment of the world and psyche, suggesting that everything is interconnected. Thus, synchronicity is both "a meaningful event" and "an acausal connecting principle." Evaluating the world in this manner opened the door to "exploring the possibility of meaning in chance or random events, deciphering if and when meaning might be present even if outside conscious awareness."

Now, after contextualizing Jung's work in relation to contemporary scientific advancements such as relativity and quantum theories, Joseph Cambray explores in this book how Jung's theories, practices, and clinical methods influenced the current field of complexity theory, which works with a paradox similar to Jung's synchronicity: the importance of symmetry as well as the need to break that symmetry for "emergence" to occur. Finally, Cambray provides his unique contribution to the field by attempting to trace "cultural synchronicities," a reconsideration of historical events in terms of their synchronistic aspects. For example, he examines the emergence of democracy in ancient Greece in order "to find a model of group decision making based on emergentist principles with a synchronistic core."

Critic Reviews:

"Cambray has written the clearest and most coherent study to date on the subject of synchronicity. This book deserves to be widely read and disseminated because in the past 'synchronicity' has been enshrouded with confusion and prejudice and the general reader has not been able to find a suitable point of entry into the debate. . . What is remarkable about this book is that Cambray takes synchronicity out of the confines of Jungian studies and links it to current research taking place in a variety of new and exciting fields in physics and the natural sciences." (Journal of Analytical Psychology)

"In his study of Synchronicity, Joseph Cambray has masterfully blended the historical and known with the cutting and emerging edges of humanity's grasp of its inner and outer reality. He has managed to produce a book that a novice in Jungian studies would find comprehensible, and that C. G. Jung himself would find compelling." (Beverley Zabriskie, Jungian Analyst)

"Joe Cambray has been at the forefront of new developments in Jungian theory and practice over the last decade. This book provides an opportunity to see the range and depth of his thinking on synchronicity in its entirety. Cambray's book is essential reading for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of this central element in C.G. Jung's system of psychology. (George B. Hogenson, author, Jung's Struggle with Freud)

Members Reviews:

At a loss for words

I found this book at a time in my life when I was awakening to the messages of the Universe as witnessed in the constellations outside my porch and by the visiting falcons, owls, crows, ravens, robins, dragonflies, butterflies, etc.

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Title: Braintrust

Subtitle: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality

Author: Patricia S. Churchland

Narrator: Catherine Dyer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-19-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 34 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

What is morality? Where does it come from? And why do most of us heed its call most of the time? In Braintrust, neurophilosophy pioneer Patricia Churchland argues that morality originates in the biology of the brain. She describes the "neurobiological platform of bonding" that, modified by evolutionary pressures and cultural values, has led to human styles of moral behavior. The result is a provocative genealogy of morals that asks us to reevaluate the priority given to religion, absolute rules, and pure reason in accounting for the basis of morality.

Moral values, Churchland argues, are rooted in a behavior common to all mammals: the caring for offspring. The evolved structure, processes, and chemistry of the brain incline humans to strive not only for self-preservation but for the well-being of allied selves - first offspring, then mates, kin, and so on, in wider and wider "caring" circles. Separation and exclusion cause pain, and the company of loved ones causes pleasure; responding to feelings of social pain and pleasure, brains adjust their circuitry to local customs. In this way, caring is apportioned, conscience molded, and moral intuitions instilled. A key part of the story is oxytocin, an ancient body-and-brain molecule that, by decreasing the stress response, allows humans to develop the trust in one another necessary for the development of close-knit ties, social institutions, and morality.

A major new account of what really makes us moral, Braintrust challenges us to reconsider the origins of some of our most cherished values.

Members Reviews:

As The Decade Of The Brain Stretches...

into its fourteenth year, anyone who has done any reading about morality, psychopathy, criminology or religion and their relationship to the brain and its various structures is familiar with mirroring cells, the anterior cingulate cortex, the septal area, the limbic system and its play in emotion, the right temporal lobe and how epilepsy in this area can bring on religious fervor or visions--and one of the people we have to thank for all of this scientific wisdom, along with other such illustrious names as Oliver Sacks, Steven Pinker, V. Ramachandran and Daniel Dennett, is Patricia Churchland. One of my early introductions to this topic was Churchland's TED lecture entitled "This Is Your Brain On Morality," and I have read her work and listened to her debates and speeches on morality and the brain for years. With clear, sharp, scientific insight, Churchland gives us the foundations of the origin of morality in the human species and pierces to the center of its Darwinian purposes in our lives. This book is entertaining, enlightening and insightful and is an absolute must for anyone interested in neurology and its role in the moral realm.

Couldn't keep my attention

There are very few audiobooks in my library that allow my attention to wander when I am listening on my commute. This was one of them. I believe it was too technical in its language to keep up with the concepts that were being divulged. On top of that, the editing of the audio recording was spotty. I could here the recording level shift in certain parts which made it more unpleasant.

I believe if you are in the field of brain research or a related science, you might find this text interesting.

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Title: The Intelligence Paradox: Why the Intelligent Choice Isn't Always the Smart One

Author: Satoshi Kanazawa

Narrator: Paul Neal Rohrer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 36 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

A book that challenges common misconceptions about the nature of intelligence.

Satoshi Kanazawa's Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters (written with Alan S. Miller) was hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "a rollicking bit of pop Science & Technology that turns the lens of evolutionary psychology on issues of the day." That book answered such burning questions as why women tend to lust after males who already have mates and why newborns look more like Dad than Mom. Now Kanazawa tackles the nature of intelligence: what it is, what it does, what it is good for (if anything). Highly entertaining, smart (dare we say intelligent?), and daringly contrarian, The Intelligence Paradox will provide a deeper understanding of what intelligence is, and what it means for us in our lives.

Challenging common misconceptions about the nature of intelligence, this book offers surprising insights into the cutting-edge of Science & Technology at the intersection of evolutionary psychology and intelligence research.

Members Reviews:

great none fiction,

very interesting ideas to challenge the current mainstream culture of PC, great performance by the voice actor.

very academic yet insightful

the conclusions drawn are based only on the western civilization data. would be interesting if other datasets are also used. i understand the availability of such datasets may be an issue.

interesting facts bent to author's agenda

What did you like about this audiobook?

The author describes an extenisve body of work that examines the relationship between IQ and personal characteristics e.g. marriage success, drug taking. There are some interesting and suprising results included that, like all good research, provoke interesting questions. Unfortunately, the author corrales them to emphasise his view that intelligent people (as measured by IQ) are not necessarily better than everyone else. This is clearly an important point for him, but I needed no convincing. People interested in this point would be much better off reading Grit.

His preoccupation with this "paradox" means that he ignores many of the interesting issues and questions that his results suggest. As a consequence, the book is laborious and a little frustrating

How has the book increased your interest in the subject matter?

The book raised some interesting observations that provoked some thought, but the focus of the book is not on these assumptions, but rather on demonstrating that intelligent people are not better.

Evolutionary psychology explains our behaviour

If you could sum up The Intelligence Paradox: Why the Intelligent Choice Isn't Always the Smart One in three words, what would they be?

We can't understand ourselves and our behaviour without evolutionary psychology.

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

It made me think deeply more than once.

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Title: The (Honest) Truth about Dishonesty

Subtitle: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves

Author: Dan Ariely

Narrator: Simon Jones

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-07-12

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 116 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

Fascinating and provocative, Dan Arielys The (Honest) Truth about Dishonesty is an insightful and brilliantly researched take on cheating, deception, and willpower. The internationally best-selling author pulls no punches when it comes to home truths. His previous titles Predictably Irrational and The Upside of Irrationality have become classics in their field, revealing unexpected and astonishing traits that run through modern humankind.

Now acclaimed behavioural economist Dan Ariely delves deeper into the dark and murky recesses of contemporary psychology, daring to ask the big questions:

If youve ever wondered how a whole company can turn a blind eye to evident misdemeanours within their ranks, whether people are born dishonest, and whether you can really be successful by being totally, brutally honest, then this audiobook is for you.

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Members Reviews:

Typical Dan Ariely

A good read, very similar to his "Predictably Irrational" and "Upside of Irrationality". There are repeats of some of the previous findings, but now through a different lens.

The essential message is that all of us lie. The trick is balancing how much we lie and cheat with our perception of ourselves.

It is fun making yourself predict the outcome of the studies as he is describing them... but a little disturbing to understand how much every single one of us lies in some way.

It finishes with some interviews from his "Arming the Donkeys" podcast, where Dan himself hosts the discussion - which are entertaining if you have not heard them before.

Another Sobering Reminder of Our Imperfect Brains

In both academic and real-world situations, Dan Ariely continues to show that we deceive more than we imagine, despite our best intentions. Simon Jones conveys the author's nuances of style just right. I've listened to it twice and it didn't feel redundant.

We cheat when we can live with it

Everyone cheats, at least, a little. This is true whether you are a priest or an atheist; wealthy or homeless; a banker or a moral philosopher. That everyone cheat is almost self-evident, but if you do not believe it, then that is one more reason you should read this book.

The focus of this book is not whether we cheat because we do. Rather it is when, how much, and why we cheat. The orthodox view on cheating has been that we cheat when we gain from it. If you can steal something and you know the risk of getting caught is basically zero, then you will. If you stand to gain a lot, you can live with a higher probability of getting caught. If, on the other hand, the penalty for getting caught is severe or if you would not gain very much then you do not cheat. This view, which has been, and still is, particularly prevalent among economists is, as this book will show, utterly wrong.

So when do we cheat? In short, we cheat when we can live with it. Almost everyone thinks of themselves as honest and righteous persons and to maintain this self-image, we tend to act accordingly (not acting in accordance with your self-image results in cognitive dissonance, which most people find stressful). We are usually creative enough to rationalize some types of cheating.