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The World Beyond Your Head
- On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction
- De: Matthew B. Crawford
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
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We often complain about our fractured mental lives and feel beset by outside forces that destroy our focus and disrupt our peace of mind. Any defense against this, Crawford argues, requires that we reckon with the way attention sculpts the self. Crawford investigates the intense focus of ice hockey players and short-order chefs, the quasi-autistic behavior of gambling addicts, the familiar hassles of daily life, and the deep, slow craft of building pipe organs.
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Things/Aware People?
- De Darwin8u en 05-25-15
- The World Beyond Your Head
- On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction
- De: Matthew B. Crawford
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
You need to know a lot of philosophy and be okay with never getting a climate to some of these concepts.
Revisado: 04-17-23
So much of this book is deeply stoned philosophical discussions. You have to know a lot of concepts to get any of it. It gets so lost and deep on topics that are indirectly about attention that it’s kind of comical that the book about attention was unable to focus on the topic. The first half of this book was the worst. Just a ton of rambling. The second half of the book slowly starts to focus and then finally the final 3 chapters start to make it happen. A lot of what I expected to be focused on while reading this just didn’t manifest. This book was greatly disappointing.
A lot of the deeper points were big teases. It almost feels like a point is going to be made and make everything clear and then it doesn’t happen. This book needed a great editor.
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Love and Asperger's
- Practical Strategies to Help Couples Understand Each Other and Strengthen Their Connection
- De: Kate McNulty LCSW
- Narrado por: Holly Adams
- Duración: 3 h y 46 m
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Life with a partner whose neurotype is different than yours is filled with moments that are surprising, unique, and sometimes challenging. If one of you is on the autism spectrum and the other is neurotypical, this Aspergers book is a helpful and inclusive guide to understanding the nature of your relationship and navigating its particular obstacles - while keeping your love for each other at the center of everything.
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Omg, this hit home and is completely my reality
- De 4TheLoveofCali en 01-10-22
- Love and Asperger's
- Practical Strategies to Help Couples Understand Each Other and Strengthen Their Connection
- De: Kate McNulty LCSW
- Narrado por: Holly Adams
Good but please stop suggesting lists as a solution.
Revisado: 02-19-23
Overall this is a good read. It is still way to heavy on helping the ND person account for NT behavior, which means that I still haven’t found a book about how to communicate to NTs that they also need to compromise. It’s exhausting. But there is some of this in the book. However, the tips included here are hilariously dumb. “Make a list” drives me nuts. Wow, never thought of that, thanks! It’s silly to suggest these things over and over again. Still worth reading.
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What to Say Next
- Successful Communication in Work, Life, and Love - with Autism Spectrum Disorder
- De: Sarah Nannery, Larry Nannery
- Narrado por: Kelsey Navarro
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
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When Sarah Nannery got her first job at a small nonprofit, she thought she knew exactly what it would take to advance. But soon she realized that even with hard work and conscientiousness, she was missing key meanings and messages embedded in her colleagues' everyday requests, feedback, and praise. She had long realized her brain operated differently than others, but now she knew for sure: She had autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
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Just another book for ASD people to feel inferior
- De William en 01-09-23
- What to Say Next
- Successful Communication in Work, Life, and Love - with Autism Spectrum Disorder
- De: Sarah Nannery, Larry Nannery
- Narrado por: Kelsey Navarro
Just another book for ASD people to feel inferior
Revisado: 01-09-23
This book is full of great info and a lot of interesting tidbits. But the centralized message across every book continues: “here’s how you with ASD can do all of the work and make NT people feel comfortable.” It’s written by someone with ASD that seems to believe it’s entirely their responsibility to fix all things they seem wrong about them. It may sound honest. But it’s not. It’s actually accusatory. There is nothing in this book so far that talks about how to ask NT people to meet us half way. There’s no understanding of the volume of work this causes. It’s just “here’s what we do wrong and how to fix it.” We aren’t wrong. We don’t exist to make everyone else comfortable. Where are the books about talking to NTs to have them do some of the work and the books for NTs to learn how to work with us?
Also, this is still wrapped in capitalist theory on productivity, everything is so deeply connected to work performance. The world is the most productive it’s ever been. This is not a concern.
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Visual Thinking
- The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions
- De: Temple Grandin PhD
- Narrado por: Andrea Gallo, Temple Grandin PhD
- Duración: 12 h y 31 m
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A quarter of a century after her memoir, Thinking in Pictures, forever changed how the world understood autism, Temple Grandin—the “anthropologist from Mars,” as Oliver Sacks dubbed her—transforms our awareness of the different ways our brains are wired. Do you have a keen sense of direction, a love of puzzles, the ability to assemble IKEA furniture without crying? You are likely a visual thinker.
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Too much focus on productivity and capitalist return; a lot of “I’m better” undertones
- De William en 01-02-23
- Visual Thinking
- The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions
- De: Temple Grandin PhD
- Narrado por: Andrea Gallo, Temple Grandin PhD
Too much focus on productivity and capitalist return; a lot of “I’m better” undertones
Revisado: 01-02-23
This book was a good introduction to my own ways of thinking. I didn’t have the vocabulary to communicate it to others. This intro runs for the first few hours of the book. But then it feels like a hard left turn into helping visual thinkers, mostly neurodivergent folks, be more marketable for jobs and raising productivity. It all becomes about work. The entire theory seems to be rooted in “visual thinking is a superpower” and suddenly it’s all about how we can extract corporate value. Mind you, there is no direct call for corporate value, but the underlying discussion is focused on how people do amazing things at work. I’m generally disappointed that this is so deeply focused on work. I get that we apply our thinking at work and many of us spend a lot of time at work, but there is so much more to how my brain works than wha to can give at work.
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The Energy Paradox
- What to Do When Your Get-Up-and-Go Has Got Up and Gone
- De: Steven R. Gundry MD
- Narrado por: Steven R. Gundry MD
- Duración: 8 h y 50 m
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Dr. Steven R. Gundry offers listeners the information and tools necessary to quiet the autoimmune battle raging within—a battle that depletes precious energy reserves, leaving you drained and prone to mood disorders and weight gain. With new guidelines on how to increase mitochondrial energy production and nourish the microbiome, 30 new Plant Paradox-approved recipes, and lists of energy-boosting foods to consume and energy-depleting foods to avoid, The Energy Paradox will help listeners take back their lives, giving them the energy they need to feel, look, and be their best.
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Nice Progression in Dr. Gundry's Series
- De kevinf en 03-28-21
- The Energy Paradox
- What to Do When Your Get-Up-and-Go Has Got Up and Gone
- De: Steven R. Gundry MD
- Narrado por: Steven R. Gundry MD
Interesting hypotheses paired with conspiracy led pseudoscience
Revisado: 10-24-22
It’s extremely difficult to determine for yourself which of the authors concepts are true and which are simply his own.
Maybe his effort to talk about this in common English was a way to make the research approachable, but it comes off like some guy who actually doesn’t know what he’s talking about because he is constantly translating what would be medical/science speak into plain English. Listening to a grown man, apparently a doctor, constantly talk about “gut buddies” doesn’t aid in building trust and legitimacy.
And lastly, he suggests at one point that we all know that neurological conditions like autism and adhd are “curable” via gut health and immune therapy. The whole “the establishment is purposely ignoring new science that sounds a bit strange” trope is outdated. This, in addition to a shortlist of other off the cuff comments about things that would be shocking to most but not to him, make this book hard to want to finish.
Some of this is exploratory and helps to open conversations about how to best treat our bodies. But most of this is a bridge too far from objective reality, getting further and further away as you get deeper into the book.
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Idiot America
- How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free
- De: Charles P. Pierce
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
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The culture wars are over and the idiots have won. This is a veteran journalist’s caustically funny, righteously angry lament about the glorification of ignorance in the United States. The three Great Premises of Idiot America: · Any theory is valid if it sells books, soaks up ratings, or otherwise moves units; anything can be true if someone says it loudly enough; "fact" is that which enough people believe. And "truth" is determined by how fervently they believe it.
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You Get What You Paid For
- De Vargas en 09-19-11
- Idiot America
- How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free
- De: Charles P. Pierce
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
Audiobook is the best
Revisado: 04-08-16
The story was great. Fantastic history lesson, however you need to listen to the audiobook. The narration is a fantastic theatrical experience and the emphasis on specific words or phrases really helps you delve into the mind of Idiot America.
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Year of Yes
- How to Dance It Out, Stand in the Sun and Be Your Own Person
- De: Shonda Rhimes
- Narrado por: Shonda Rhimes
- Duración: 7 h y 4 m
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The megatalented creator of Grey's Anatomy and Scandal and executive producer of How to Get Away with Murder chronicles how saying yes for one year changed her life - and how it can change yours, too.
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Began well, but disappointing
- De Gary en 11-30-15
- Year of Yes
- How to Dance It Out, Stand in the Sun and Be Your Own Person
- De: Shonda Rhimes
- Narrado por: Shonda Rhimes
10/10
Revisado: 02-25-16
loved it. listen to the audio book instead of a manual read; Shonda narrates her story so well.
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