Mindwise
by Nicholas Epley · first published 2014
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An exploration of the human mind's capacity for instinctive understanding about the feelings and desires of others explains how the ability or inability to understand the minds of those around us leads to connection or conflict.
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…reading this book helped me understand people who are very present-focused. Also great advice on shifting your focus when needed. I read it 7 years ago, but still think about it almost every day. -- Mindwise: How We Understand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want - by Nicholas Epley https://sivers.org/book/Mindwise Many new brilliant insights, especially about over-estimating the differences between…
on “Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade?” ↗Seeing the discussion here, I'll recommend to the Hacker News readers who haven't heard about it yet the new book Mindwise: How We Understand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want,[1] which reviews research on topics like this and a lot of other mysteries of the human mind. It's a book based on current experimental research…
on “Belonging to a group makes people more likely to harm others outside the group” ↗Regarding the Mindwise book, I recently read Jonathan Haidt's The Happiness Hypothesis where he talks about (at least what I interpreted) the silliness of good vs evil and differing beliefs. I haven't read his 2nd book but…
on “Derek Sivers: Books I've Read” ↗