Bibliograph

Being the person your dog thinks you are, the science of a better you, Jim Davies

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Being the person your dog thinks you are, the science of a better you, Jim Davies

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-417) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Being the person your dog thinks you are

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Jim Davies

Sub title

the science of a better you

Summary

Being the Person Your Dog Thinks You Are shows us how we can use science to become our best selves, using resources we already have within our own brains. Davies' book challenges and inspires us to approach the big picture while also staying mindful of the everyday details in real life. Davies proves why multitasking is bad for you, when a little unmindfulness can be good for you, how to best justify which charities to donate to, and how to hack your brain

Table Of Contents

About you. Productivity - An optimizer - Personal productivity - Sharpening the saw vs. cutting - Your mind, your time, your attention - The effects of distraction - Why are people sabotaging themselves? - Hacking your brain, hacking your life. How to hack your cognitive system - How to hack your habit system - How to hack your reward system - Working without distraction: I'm here to make an hour out of fifteen minutes - The project list - The half-hours method - The half-hours method: master class - Competing methods - How to read more effectively - Idea capture - How to sleep - Helping yourself by helping others - Happiness. Your life satisfaction - Habituation - Happiness is in-born - Happiness comes from within - Happiness comes from without - Hang out with friends and loved ones - A (good) marriage and (maybe) children - Happiness and memory - There is more to a good life than being happy - It's not about you. What we think is right and wrong - Morality vs. selfishness - The expanding circle - The social group - The out-group and animals - Anything that can suffer - Morality, personality, and emotion - The good of the many vs. the rights of the few - Your identity as a charitable person - Doing bad is more powerful than doing good - Your brain on morals - What's actually right and wrong - A work on progress - Having and not having children: moral issues - Ethical purchases - Think globally, act globally - The (numerical) value of human life - Choosing a career - Measure good done - Animals - Is life suffering? -- Helping animals - Comparing human to animal suffering - Environmental morality - Choosing charities - How to mobilize people to be good - How people give, how people donate - Are humans good for the world? - When giving gives back - Where does it all end? How much is too much? - The only local activism that makes sense

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