Book · 1997 · Nonfiction
How the Mind Works
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Most women would rather share John F. Kennedy than have Bobo the clown all to themselves.
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There's someone there's so many reasons right now to understand how great everything is that book right there by Steven Pinker and light mr. right book is is all about how great things are and that's a gratefully where there is less violence now in all sorts of the revolt you always have to be on the but the gatekeepers.
Dave Rubin The Rubin Report · Aug 2018 I wondered about this for a long time until I read Steven Pinker's book How the Mind Works. There's a particular passage that explains this.
That sstephen pinker i do agree with his claim sand i think how the mind works that it is the key question for the psychological sciences.
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Why people recommend it
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker is a comprehensive exploration of evolutionary psychology that argues the human mind is a system of computation designed by natural selection to solve problems faced by our ancestral hunter-gatherers. The book has drawn considerable attention from numerous podcast hosts and guests. On The Rubin Report, Dave Rubin recommended the work, referring to it as an example that illustrates how human society and conditions are actually improving and experiencing less violence over time. Rob Henderson brought up the book on Modern Wisdom to highlight a well-known observation regarding human mating preferences and the differing romantic choices of men and women. On No Stupid Questions, Stephen Dubner noted that Pinker did an effective job summarizing broader arguments about human prosperity, while Michael Huemer cited the book on the Dwarkesh Podcast as providing a specific evolutionary explanation for why men in primitive tribes engaged in violent attacks against others. Additionally, Sheldon Solomon mentioned the work on the Lex Fridman Podcast, agreeing with Pinker's framing of the mind as a central question for psychological sciences, and Lex Fridman himself brought up the volume to examine past conjectures on neural networks and brain function.
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Dave Rubin there's someone there's so many reasons right now to understand how great everything is that book right the… 1
“there's someone there's so many reasons right now to understand how great everything is that book right there by Steven Pinker and light mr. right book is is all about how great things are and that's a gratefully where there is less violence now in all sorts of the revolt you always have to be on the but the gatekeepers”
Angela Duckworth Pinker wrote a book about it; I think he did a really good job summarizing it. 1
“Pinker wrote a book about it; I think he did a really good job summarizing it.”
Lex Fridman so twenty years ago in the book you've written on how the mind works 1
“so twenty years ago in the book you've written on how the mind works”
Michael Huemer and i wondered about this for a long time until i read stephen pinker's book how the mind works there's a p… 1
“and i wondered about this for a long time until i read stephen pinker's book how the mind works there's a particular passage that explains this it's basically what happened in primitive tribes”
Rob Henderson I always think of this famous this very nice line in in Steven Pinker's famous book, How the Mind Works. An… 1
“I always think of this famous this very nice line in in Steven Pinker's famous book, How the Mind Works. And it's something like most women would rather share John F. Kennedy than have Bobo the clown all to themselves.”
Sheldon Solomon that sstephen pinker i do agree with his claim sand i think how the mind works that it is the key question… 1
“that sstephen pinker i do agree with his claim sand i think how the mind works that it is the key question for the psychological sciences”
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“Naomi Campbell, the former supermodel and businesswoman. Former Treasury Secretary and Harvard president Larry Summers. Stephven Pinker, the Canadian popular psychologist and author of such bestselling books as Enlightenment Now and How the Mind Works.”