Heyo, and Happy Thanksgiving Weekend! 🦃
If you're celebrating, I hope you have a wonderful time. To round out the turkey-based menu, I'm bringing you some book summaries for a quick yet delicious dessert of wisdom! (They go really well with pumpkin pie, I hear!)
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Alright, who's in the mood for a great book? Let's go!
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
If you only ever read one book about human history, this should probably be it. In Sapiens, Dr. Yuval Noah Harari breaks down our entire human story, from the very first people to walk the earth all the way to our latest breakthroughs in AI and cognitive science.
The book has sold over 23 million (!) copies since it was first released in 2014, and for anyone who wants to know where we come from (or where we're going), it is a must-read!
If you want to better understand humans and our story, watch this video.
The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis
1-Sentence-Summary: The Undoing Project talks about the life and extensive research in the psychology of Kahneman and Tversky by bringing forth some of the most influential and groundbreaking discoveries they unveiled about human behavior and the biases in our decisions.
Top 3 Lessons:
- The human mind is not as logical as we think it is.
- Kahneman and Amos discovered the secrets of a great partnership, and it all starts with a common purpose.
- The most common biases are something we all have and they're pretty hard to locate and interpret.
If you want to become a better thinker and learn what it takes to make creative breakthroughs, this book is for you.
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The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber
1-Sentence-Summary: The Dawn of Everything tells the story of how we went from hunter-gatherers to city-builders, from the Stone Age to today's modern world, all by exploring a series of new discoveries made by scientists who are challenging some long-held beliefs about our history.
Top 3 Lessons:
- J.J. Rousseau and Hobbes shaped the first prominent views of humanity's evolution as a society.
- Slaves were considered necessary, although not everyone was happy with the idea of forced labor.
- Early monarchs used violence, control of information, and charisma to exercise their powers.
If you want to get a completely new view of human history, assembled from the ground up (perhaps to balance what you read in Sapiens), this book is for you.
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1-Sentence-Summary: Maoism explores the ideology of Mao Zedong, the Chinese leader of the communist party of the twentieth century, and how he managed to turn his doctrine into a mass-adopted phenomenon that continues even today, under different forms and shapes.
Top 3 Lessons:
- Mao pleased the masses to gain power and control.
- Mao tried to inspire leaders all over the world to follow his ideology but with no success.
- Maoism is rooted in many systems, so it still exists today.
If you want to know how Mao Zedong became a powerful, autocratic ruler, this book is for you.
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That's all for now. Enjoy the long weekend if you're celebrating, and if not, enjoy a normal one anyway — and learn something new :)
Happy reading,
-Nik
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