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The New Science of the Meme
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Nothing seems more real than the minds of other people. When you consider what your boss is thinking or whether your spouse is happy, you are admitting them into the "mind club". It's easy to assume other humans can think and feel, but what about a cow, a computer, a corporation? What kinds of minds do they have? Daniel M. Wegner and Kurt Gray are award-winning psychologists who have discovered that minds - while incredibly important - are a matter of perception.
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Who is the self in me? Am I part of something bigger?
- By Philomath on 03-24-16
By: Daniel M. Wegner, and others
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The Bond
- Connecting Through the Space Between Us
- By: Lynne McTaggart
- Narrated by: Karen White
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
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From the best-selling author of The Intention Experiment and The Field comes a groundbreaking new work---a book that uses the interconnectedness of mind and matter to demonstrate that the key to life is in the relationship between things. We are always connected with others, hardwired at our most elemental level---from the quantum level to the cellular, from personal relationships to business and societal structures.
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- By Cotran on 09-19-11
By: Lynne McTaggart
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Cracking the Code
- By: Thom Hartmann
- Narrated by: Lloyd James
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
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According to Air America radio host Thom Hartmann, the apologists of the Right have become masters of the subtle and largely subconscious aspects of political communication. It's not an escalation in Iraq, it's a surge; it's not the inheritance tax, it's the death tax; it's not drilling for oil, it's exploring for energy.
Conservatives didn't intuit the path to persuasive messaging; they learned these techniques.
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User-friendly course on political communication
- By Danee McFarr on 02-06-09
By: Thom Hartmann
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Wanting
- The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life
- By: Luke Burgis
- Narrated by: Luke Burgis, Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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Gravity affects every aspect of our physical being, but there’s a psychological force just as powerful - yet almost nobody has heard of it. It’s responsible for bringing groups of people together and pulling them apart, making certain goals attractive to some and not to others, and fueling cycles of anxiety and conflict. In Wanting, Luke Burgis draws on the work of French polymath René Girard to bring this hidden force to light and reveals how it shapes our lives and societies.
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One of the most important books you'll ever read
- By chris boutte on 06-14-21
By: Luke Burgis
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Mindwise
- Why We Misunderstand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want
- By: Nicholas Epley
- Narrated by: Nicholas Epley
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
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You are a mind reader, born with an extraordinary ability to understand what others think, feel, believe, want, and know. It's a sixth sense you use every day, in every personal and professional relationship you have. At its best, this ability allows you to achieve the most important goal in almost any life: connecting, deeply and intimately and honestly, to other human beings. At its worst, it is a source of misunderstanding and unnecessary conflict, leading to damaged relationships and broken dreams. How good are you at knowing the minds of others?
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Finally gave up - no real point
- By Thomas on 05-12-14
By: Nicholas Epley
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The Blank Slate
- The Modern Denial of Human Nature
- By: Steven Pinker
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins
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In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading experts on language and the mind, explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. With characteristic wit, lucidity, and insight, Pinker argues that the dogma that the mind has no innate traits, denies our common humanity and our individual preferences, replaces objective analyses of social problems with feel-good slogans, and distorts our understanding of politics, violence, parenting, and the arts.
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Don't bother. Outdated science & poor logic...
- By ejf211 on 03-31-10
By: Steven Pinker
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Riveted
- The Science of Why Jokes Make Us Laugh, Movies Make Us Cry, and Religion Makes Us Feel One with the Universe
- By: Jim Davies
- Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
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Professor Jim Davies's fascinating and highly accessible book, Riveted, reveals the evolutionary underpinnings of why we find things compelling. Drawing on work from philosophy, anthropology, religious studies, psychology, economics, computer science, and biology, Davies offers a comprehensive explanation to show that in spite of the differences between the many things that we find compelling, they have similar effects on our minds and brains.
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Fun and excellent listen!
- By Alejandro Franco on 04-13-18
By: Jim Davies
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Imaginable
- How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything - Even Things That Seem Impossible Today
- By: Jane McGonigal
- Narrated by: Jane McGonigal
- Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
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The COVID-19 pandemic, increasingly frequent climate disasters, a new war—events we might have called “unimaginable” or “unthinkable” in the past are now reality. Today it feels more challenging than ever to feel unafraid, hopeful, and equipped to face the future with optimism. How do we map out our lives when it seems impossible to predict what the world will be like next week, let alone next year or next decade? What we need now are strategies to help us recover our confidence and creativity in facing uncertain futures.
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Fabulous content, INSUFFERABLE narration!
- By Kelly on 05-24-22
By: Jane McGonigal
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The Great Mental Models
- General Thinking Concepts
- By: Shane Parrish
- Narrated by: Shane Parrish
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
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The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts is the first book in The Great Mental Models series designed to upgrade your thinking with the best, most useful and powerful tools so you always have the right one on hand. This volume details nine of the most versatile all-purpose mental models you can use right away to improve your decision making, your productivity, and how clearly you see the world.
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A dissapointing debut
- By Peter on 04-14-19
By: Shane Parrish
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- K.M
- 06-24-15
Many new prospectively!
You can gain a lot from this book in terms of business and marketing or consciousness and zen or pure conspiracy theory perspective!
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- Dion Shamir Johnson
- 12-16-20
This book literally enlightened me on all levels of the mind!!!
I love this book so much and I have the hardcover and audible for this book and this book has completely enlightened me in ways I thought the mind couldn’t comprehend but I’m so glad I have this book because it has showed me something I wasn’t consciously aware of what is really wrong with society until after I got this book📖🤔🙏🏾
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- lawna cervantes
- 01-02-16
Intentional choice
I just finished the book, so should have a lack of space and distance to know what effect it will have on my future behavior, fortunately however, I remote viewed myself helping many children out of clouds of memes and idioms, so looks promising.
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- Cavario
- 05-16-22
The gift of Clarity
Mr. Brodie's uber effective explanation of memes is remarkably mind expanding. I look forward to my next listen, there's simply too much to capture in a single play.
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- Angy
- 07-14-22
Intriguing
I took off one star for the annoying and loud music between chapters. Stuff like that remove me from the story and disrupts any thought train or emotional feeling from the book.
Otherwise this is a great, straightforward, easy to understand book that explains how blatantly manipulative actions go on every day in ways unlikely to be noticed. Plus it gives examples of the desired outcome from those efforts.
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- Williamb
- 04-24-19
Wish it was longer
An excellent step into the concept of Meme. Richard Brodie provides thorough and meaningful presentation of the topic of meme. This is a practical book for learning the concept, the history, the implications of meme transfer. The use of the term meme is a convenient method of conveying a complicated concept. The concept is extremely important not only to communication and persuasion, but to the understanding of thought. It has been said that all learning is persuasion. It is necessary to be persuaded in order to believe a thought is true. The difference between carrying and sharing a meme, being a meme replicator, and persuading another of a truth is significant. Brodie not only makes the difference clear, he provides some practical defense against the virulent but destructive type of meme. A question discussed in the book is does the meme improve quality of life, and if so, at what cost? I regard this as an important question. Brodie also raises the question of how memes may improve life for humans more broadly, but doesn't explore this deeply.
There are a few unanswered questions that Brodie's treatment skirts. I'd like to know how music fits the meme model. It certainly replicates, does it use the same path? What are the basic motivators that the music meme rides on?
Could there be a strategy to improve meme quality? What criteria would be valid?
Is there a case/risk for pop-up memes for urgent issues? I know that the morning news is a quasi pop-up meme generator. But this source is worn out and now directly challenged, politically and by Internet competition. Which raises the question about judgement - is awareness enough?
Richard reads this work very well. I enjoyed the listen and am still pondering... I hope he finds the time to write the sequel.
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- Savita E Eisenberg
- 11-12-15
An interesting way of looking at things
Enjoyed this book. One of the best teaching devices n it, is being able to observe the stent to which the author is trapped in his own memes. I do hope that was intentional.
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- Cindy
- 03-19-20
Definitely worth a read
I loved this book, informative and it's one of the few books that are not resident in one fueled like Psychology only or marketing or business.
I am new to the meme subject, I am happy I tried it. BRODIE has put the concepts clear and basic enough to wet my appetite on the subject.
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- Venusian Incognito
- 09-06-19
I wanted to like this...
I was excited by the book’s title and was looking forward to an informative Great Courses-Esque in depth discussion on the history of memes and how they spread, with research cited and historical examples etc. I was disappointed.
As others had stated the book is a fair bit repetitive and a bit shallow considering the topic discussed. If feels like a rough draft, or a very long blog post.
I do appreciate what the author was intending (we are largely controlled by ideas, traditions, memes etc that are not our own) but the work just seemed a little unfocused and repetitive with a lot of his assertions left unsupported.
I’d love to find a well researched book that thoroughly/properly explores the phenomena of memes.
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- p diddy
- 11-27-10
thought provoking
While I have to admit that it sounds a little like a sermon, the concept is easy to grasp and not dry at all. This is an good lesson in critical thinking for people who dont want to fall for dumb ideas.
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