Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2025-02-20
Books mentioned on "Evolution Played A Dirty Trick On Us" - Why Modern Life Feels So Empty - William von Hippel
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Godfather
Mario Puzo's sprawling crime novel The Godfather explores the dark realities of the American Mafia through the rise of the Corleone family.
Discussed“I mean you can the author of The Godfather talks about how his mother wanted him to be a clerk in a railroad station because that's a reliable job and you'll always have you know that it's hard to fire you and you'll always have an income and you know if if he taken her advice we wouldn't have those”
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Hardwiring Happiness
Hardwiring Happiness by Rick Hanson examines the neurobiology of well-being and outlines practical strategies for transforming passing positive experiences into lasting neural structure.
Discussed“yeah I had a conversation with Rick Hansen that wrote hardwiring happiness and um you know digging into the sort of neurobiology of where happiness comes from”
