Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2023-09-28
Chris Williamson & Dr Gad Saad: books mentioned on Modern Wisdom #686
8 Strategies For Avoiding A Life You Hate - Dr Gad Saad - #686
Dr Gad Saad is an Evolutionary Psychologist, Professor of Marketing at Concordia University, a podcaster and an author. In today’s fast-paced world, happiness and contentment often seem elusive.
Chris Williamson discussed Determined by Robert M. Sapolsky and The Moral Animal by Robert Wright. Gad Saad discussed Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers by Robert M. Sapolsky, Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright, and Homicide by Martin Daly and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Determined
Discussed“sapolski's coming on to talk about his new book determined in the middle of October”
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Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
Discussed“so uh sapolsky uh wrote a book many years ago called uh why zebras don't get ulcers”
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Why Buddhism is True
Discussed“I read a Robert writes why Buddhism is true and that really helped that was one of the first books that I read that kind of helped to frame it”
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Homicide
Discussed“he assigned a book by two of the pioneers of evolutionary psychology a husband and wife team Martin Daly and Margo Wilson where the book is titled homicide where they looked at patterns of criminality”
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The Moral Animal
Discussed“my book coming-of-age red pill was the moral animal Robert Wright's first one”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged The Parasitic Mind
“although as I of course explain in much of my work and certainly in the parasitic mind you also don't want to fall trap uh to the echo chamber reality”
Plugged The Parasitic Mind
“you may or may not remember that in the parasitic mind I talked about male feminists as an instantiation of the sneaky strategy”