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Hard to be human : overcoming our 5 cognitive design flaws / Ted Cadsby.

by Cadsby, Ted.

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Dundurn Press, 2021.

Cognitive psychology.

Thought and thinking.

9781459748842 (pbk.)

245 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Ted Cadsby, a corporate director with experience on a number of for-profit and non-profit boards, the former executive vice president of Retail Distribution at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) argues that if animals could study us the way we study them, they would be puzzled by our unique ability to inflict misery on ourselves. Animals would call us out for being oddly paradoxical creatures who long to be happy while creating our own suffering, who struggle to adapt to a confusing world that we ourselves created. 'It's hard to be human because our thinking and felling are poorly matched to the reality of modern human life' he claims. This book corrals the best insights from psychology, neuroscience, physics, and philosophy to reveal powerful strategies for the five big battles we each face in the war with ourselves."

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