Thoughts on Loserthink by Scott Adams
Scott Adams’ latest book, Loserthink: How Untrained Brains are Ruining America, is about flawed thinking and ways to foster more productive methods of thought and communication.
WRITING
Writing
A selection of writing on psychotherapy, relationships, culture and related subjects.
US Divorce Rate Reaches 50-Year Low, Whilst Marriage Rate Hits All-Time Low
Based on new Census data, the Institute for Family Studies (IFS) reported that divorce in America hit a record low in 2019.
Author Johann Hari: Look at the Signals
Attempting to understand human beings at the level of the brain can prevent us from understanding the people whom those brains belong to.
Suicide and Coronavirus
The coronavirus pandemic is taking its toll.
650,000 Hours/3 Billion Heartbeats
There are many ways to quantify a human life. Here are two.
Alcohol Consumption: A Leading Cause of Preventable Death
The impact of alcohol on global health is hard to encapsulate. In Never Enough: The Neuroscience of Addiction, author and neuroscientist Judith Grisel does her best to highlight the deadly consequences of excessive alcohol consumption.
Relationship Advice from Jerry Seinfeld’s Is This Anything?
Spanning five decades, Seinfeld’s Is This Anything? covers everything from bumper cars and cotton balls to Facebook and COVID-19.
Dr Joanna Moncrieff: The Vast Majority of People Who Take Psychiatric Drugs Derive Little or No Benefit From Them
Whilst promoting a new edition of A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Drugs, Dr Joanna Moncrieff summarised her stance on psychiatric drugs.
Physicist Sean Carroll On ‘The Mistake We Make’
In The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself, physicist Sean Carroll reminds readers of a mistake we’re all prone to making.
Science Fiction Author Robert Heinlein On Happiness
In the sci-fi novel, Starship Troopers, author Robert Heinlein shares his secret to a happy life.