Read by the author. Released in 2019.
This is the second book by Mark Manson that I listened to. It's also very good. It's very serious though compared to the other one. There was maybe one bit that made me chuckle. The ending is surprising and a bit of prophetic. I listened to the whole book twice and probably should do it again in a few years or at any time I feel like I everything is f*cked. Which it is now. From the US to Poland, via Australia, Ukraine and Palestine. Everything is seriously f*cked. Lies, hate, and greed cause a great number of innocent people to suffer and die, and it does not look like it will get better... until the AI takes over?
Part I
Chapter 1 is about the hero Witold Pilecki who volunteered to be imprisoned in Auschwitz, and told the world about it.
Chapter 2 is about a patient named Elliot, studied by Dr. Antonio Damasio, who after a brain operation lost the ability to have any feelings, while retaining his thinking abilities. This is a chapter about the thinking brain and the feeling brain and their struggle for control over us.
Chapter 3 is about Isaac Newton's formative years and the laws of emotion:
- When someone/something causes us pain, a moral gap opens up, and our feeling brain wants us to equalise.
- Our self-worth equals the sum of our emotions over time.
- Your identity will stay your identity until a new experience acts against it.
Chapter 5 is about Meta von Salis and Friedrich Nietzsche, and also about religions and the nature of hope.
Part II
Chapter 6 is about Emmanuel Kant and the formula of humanity. Kids are driven by the feeling brain - they are learning what the values are. No empathy. Just needs. Adolescents apply what/if rules to decision making, but approach life as a series of transactions. Well formed adults do things that are good, because they are good, not for any gain.
Chapter 7 is about pain being constant. About the blue dot experiment.
Chapter 8 is about manipulating feelings in marketing.
Chapter 9 is about the AI.
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