7 Secrets of Happiness Your Brain Doesn't Want You to Know Kevin Meredith 9780998453408 Books
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“The non-conscious parts of your brain aren’t just taking charge of your muscles during brief moments of danger – they’re grabbing the controls of your mind constantly, ordering up feelings, ideas and behaviors for their own purposes, directing and fighting with your conscious in accordance with ancient, obsolete rules that have nothing to do with your happiness.” Praised by Kirkus Reviews as "an unusual, easy-to-follow examination of some perplexing aspects of human behavior," 7 Secrets of Happiness is the first attempt at a comprehensive accounting of the most significant ways your mind works against your happiness – through lies, cultural stupidity, arbitrary punishment, superstition, and an evolved vulnerability to exploitation by others. Drawing on everything from ancient myth to the latest discoveries in the brain sciences, 7 Secrets exposes that other being in the human skull named the ultraconscious here, he is an ancient, powerful and terrifying creature who can nevertheless be weakened with knowledge.
7 Secrets of Happiness Your Brain Doesn't Want You to Know Kevin Meredith 9780998453408 Books
I read this book because I had come across some research suggesting that your brain doesn't want you to consciously know about certain things. For example, to perform well in a mirror writing task, you need to process information about your finger position (proprioception), but when this propriceptive information is CONSCIOUS, then it interferes with successful execution of the task. So what your brain does is suppress the somatosensory cortical representation (consciousness)of the proprioceptive information, while letting all other processing proceed. In that task, our brain doesn't want us to know what our fingers are doing. It creaped me out a little and I wanted to know what else doesn't my brain want me to know, so I bought this book.This book is very well written, informative and insightful about the human condition. It makes a very clear case that we have two minds, one conscious, and one unconscious "invisible being that lives within you, and guides and controls you", that has its "own concerns, preferences and ways of looking at life" that have to do with ensuring victory in the evolutionary competition. It describes the compelling reasons why we "must possess brain functions that aren't part of our conscious awareness or under your conscious control".
He has talks about the profound implications of unmasking these unconscious processes. One insight is that while we have all been consciously pursuing happiness for millenia, we haven't reliably been able to attain it because our unconscious mind is actually hell-bent on pursuing something else, evolutionary success. So our unconscious mind stingily doles out small rations of temporary happiness to lure us into taking another step toward achieving some evolutionary objective. Each time we take a step away from our evolutionary goals, we get a dose of suffering. People don't exist who can feel happy all the time, no matter whether they are succeeding or failing (evolutionarily), because "their inappropriate happiness gene died with them".
Another important implication is that in conflict, our unconscious triggers overconfidence in our rightness which shields us from the conscious knowledge that we just want to win, rather than find the truth or find what's fair. He also has a fascinating discussion about how our rational intelligence is dangerous to the objectives of the unconscious mind.
This analysis is an important step toward understanding why we feel and do what we do.
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7 Secrets of Happiness Your Brain Doesn't Want You to Know Kevin Meredith 9780998453408 Books Reviews
I read this book because I had come across some research suggesting that your brain doesn't want you to consciously know about certain things. For example, to perform well in a mirror writing task, you need to process information about your finger position (proprioception), but when this propriceptive information is CONSCIOUS, then it interferes with successful execution of the task. So what your brain does is suppress the somatosensory cortical representation (consciousness)of the proprioceptive information, while letting all other processing proceed. In that task, our brain doesn't want us to know what our fingers are doing. It creaped me out a little and I wanted to know what else doesn't my brain want me to know, so I bought this book.
This book is very well written, informative and insightful about the human condition. It makes a very clear case that we have two minds, one conscious, and one unconscious "invisible being that lives within you, and guides and controls you", that has its "own concerns, preferences and ways of looking at life" that have to do with ensuring victory in the evolutionary competition. It describes the compelling reasons why we "must possess brain functions that aren't part of our conscious awareness or under your conscious control".
He has talks about the profound implications of unmasking these unconscious processes. One insight is that while we have all been consciously pursuing happiness for millenia, we haven't reliably been able to attain it because our unconscious mind is actually hell-bent on pursuing something else, evolutionary success. So our unconscious mind stingily doles out small rations of temporary happiness to lure us into taking another step toward achieving some evolutionary objective. Each time we take a step away from our evolutionary goals, we get a dose of suffering. People don't exist who can feel happy all the time, no matter whether they are succeeding or failing (evolutionarily), because "their inappropriate happiness gene died with them".
Another important implication is that in conflict, our unconscious triggers overconfidence in our rightness which shields us from the conscious knowledge that we just want to win, rather than find the truth or find what's fair. He also has a fascinating discussion about how our rational intelligence is dangerous to the objectives of the unconscious mind.
This analysis is an important step toward understanding why we feel and do what we do.
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