Ryan K.

Nothing You Don't Know

Revisado: 08-24-22

Short book. As useful as talking to a friend for 15 minutes. You already know everything. Author struggled to add filler to make more than a magazine article.

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Lots of psychology, little about success.

Revisado: 08-10-22

This is about science, not a motivational text about success. About how some people are naturally racist. i was not impressed.

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Outdated Para-Psychology from the 1960's

Revisado: 07-10-22

Summary: Jose Silva is full of shit. The narrator often calls Silva a "psychologist' and refers to his "research" but never actually describes said research and NEVER points to peer-reviewed papers. Stay at home moms with no college do better science in the kitchen than the purported science by Silva. Wikipedia refers to Jose Silva as a PARA-PSYCHOLOGIST from the 1960's. There were no control groups in any of the "studies." Christian theology books mention the name Jesus Christ fewer times per paragraph than this author mentions "Jose Silva" - it is quite annoying. "Jose Silva says ... Silva's research, therefore, ... In Jose Silva's own words ... Silva was asked to speak ... Silva ... Jose Silva ... Jose Silva." Every 2nd sentence. I suffered through the book to the end so that I could write this review. It is the same from first to last page. Bad from beginning to end. Great cover art - scientific looking - but as we know, don't judge a book by its cover.

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Read This Book First

Revisado: 01-03-22

This short book is so foundational, so complete, that it should be the start of any self-help or diet program. There's a reason it's a classic

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Explains Liberals vs Conservatives

Revisado: 01-02-22

The authors explain the MAJOR difference between dopamine and serotonin (and other H & N brain chemicals). Dopamine regulates future desires, and H&N regulate current pleasures. And it seems to be wired in with our DNA. This explains a lot of society's problems and how beliefs get passed down the generations - it's more than nurture. So what do we do with this knowledge? The listener will just ponder throughout the book.

Of course, like all such books, the authors eventually try squeezing all sorts of behavioral and sociological data into this theory. Very weak correlational data between conservatives and liberals is attributed to supply or lack of dopamine (with the standard "partly" qualifier). At some point when you get 51% vs 49% you wonder if the tides, zodiac, or who won the Superbowl might have more influence than a brain chemical. But for the first 90% of this book I am mostly a believer. I do think that the researchers who look for a positive outcome have designed experiments where only a positive outcome can be measured, more or less. But I don't have the time to go through this book again to find where these experiments were mentioned.

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Repetitive and nothing new.

Revisado: 09-23-21

Maybe it's a reference book, because it is as entertaining and educational in audio as listening to a book of mathematical formulas. And the repetitive examples seem sarcastic.

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Only for Woke Socialists

Revisado: 07-23-21

Author Mr. Hughes has gone off the deep, left end of logic. SUMMARY: Rich, white people must pay to fund a system where all folks who live in the cities can vote on how to spend the extra money.

Lots of words the socialists throw around like "collaboration," "belonging," "awareness," "work together," yada yada. You know the story. Nothing about those on welfare getting jobs to make the city better. Nothing about stopping crime from WITHIN the community or family. No, Mr. Hughes wants to defund the police and spend the difference on social programs "to help." The performance continually pulls in data from obscure sources to motivate an argument. Usually this data is obviously only the tip of the story and could be looked at in opposite ways, but we just move on. All this data is akin to hearing someone read the phone book - a serious annoyance. The only audible book of hundreds I could not finish.

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Equations don't work in audio

Revisado: 06-26-21

One of the most important books in philosophy of science. But long sections of equations and mathematical examples that work in print because they are chart-like but not in audio. Some parts are a half hour of math jibberish (and I understood most of the math in print). Still, most is not math and the philosophy translates perfectly.

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Interesting hypothesis

Revisado: 03-27-21

A contrived story that could be true. Would motivate emotional people at the bottom of the food chain.

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Nothing new - more of the same "how to speak up."

Revisado: 03-14-20

Introverts are special. Don't feel bad if others get promoted. You think first and then speak which is great. But use this book on how to open up. This is a lightweight intro book.

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