This book was fantastic. The author uses a lot of anecdotal evidence to support good experimental data. Some of the conclusions drawn from the data i find suspect, especially those regarding the purpose of why people were doing what they were doing, but the general indicators of human behavior are fully believable. One of the things that the book talks at length about are biases. It talks about getting used to good and bad things, and how to avoid getting used to the good and make the bad not so bad. The book also says that we should avoid making decisions when emotional, as that will form an unintentional habit of choosing that decision or ones like it when dealing with people in the future. The emotional habit experiment is one that I don’t believe to be as thorough as most of the others, but it is still directionally true. I very much enjoyed this book.
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