Subliminal
The New Unconscious and What It Teaches Us
by Leonard Mlodinow · first published 2012
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There's also a good book called Subliminal that discusses the neuroscience of how our subconcious brain make decisions that we often believe we made ourselves. http://www.amazon.com/Subliminal-Your-Unconscious-Rules-Beha...
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on “Ask HN: What are your favorite books? I'm bored” ↗…rationalizing. Don’t think. Just do. (If you want a good resource that synthesizes a bunch of modern psychology research relating to that suggestion into a single, entertaining non-fiction book, see “Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior” by Leonard Mlodinow [0]). [0]: https://psychcentralreviews.com/2016/subliminal-how-your-unc...
on “Tricks to start working despite not feeling like it” ↗…and reshape the concrete details from the way they actually happened. Obviously, given a certain context, this can result in terrible consequences. I remember this being discussed at length in the book "Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior"[1] w/r/t eyewitness testimony of criminal acts, but perhaps in some cases, our distorted perception of reality may be a important mechanism to our own self-esteem,…
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