Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2022-09-12
Books mentioned on 500k Q&A - Casual Sex, Political Idiots & Dealing With Depression - #525
I hit 500k Subscribers on YouTube!! To celebrate, I asked for questions from YouTube, Twitter, Locals and Instagram, so here's another 90 minutes of me trying to answer as many as possible.
Chris Williamson recommended The Expectation Effect by David Robson and The Ape that Understood the Universe by Steve Stewart-Williams, and discussed Make It Stick by Peter C. Brown and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Expectation Effect
The Expectation Effect by David Robson is a science book exploring how human expectations, thoughts, and placebo or nocebo effects physically impact health, behavior, and daily existence across various domains.
Recommended“i'm reading the expectation effect loving it what should i read next”
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The Ape that Understood the Universe
The Ape that Understood the Universe by Steve Stewart-Williams is an accessible exploration of evolutionary psychology that investigates human nature, culture, and the biological drivers behind modern behavior.
Recommended“the ape who understood the universe by steve stewart williams will take your face off evolutionary psychology understanding why we are the way we are basis of human nature if you enjoyed the sort of human naturey conversations on the channel the ape who understood the universe will blow you away”
Where to get it
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Make It Stick
Make It Stick by Peter C.
Discussed“you can go back and listen to episodes that were like really focused on dialing in productivity and different types of pomodoro techniques and peter c brown on make it stick in the science of interleaved uh space repetition and the ebbing house forgetting curve and all this [__]”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“i would love to condense that down like a broly 12 rules for life i suppose”
“so it's a cross between tools of titans from tim and you know a 12 rulesie type thing”