Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2021-11-29
Books mentioned on 13 More Harsh Psychology Truths - Adam Lane Smith - #404
Adam Lane Smith is a psychotherapist and an author. Adam wrote one of the best threads on Twitter which I've seen this year, our first episode on this ended up being an absolute favourite so here we go again with some more uncomfortable psychology insights.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Evolution of Desire
The Evolution of Desire by David M.
Discussed“I um I was reading Robert Wright's uh book recently which always has some it's was written in the '90s when he did uh when he first wrote his his book on evolutionary psychology. There's this section in there that says the Madonna-whore dichotomy.”
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Exodus
Exodus by Leon Uris is a sweeping historical novel that chronicles the founding of the State of Israel and the turbulent events surrounding Jewish history and survival in the twentieth century.
Discussed“it's the reason they they say that that's the reason that um in the book of Exodus, the Jews had to wander in the desert for 40 years before they could reach the promised land was because the old generations had to die off”
