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Strangers to Ourselves
- Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
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Summary
In an eye-opening tour of the unconscious, as contemporary psychological science has redefined it, Timothy D. Wilson introduces us to a hidden mental world of judgments, feelings, and motives that introspection may never show us. This is not your psychoanalyst's unconscious. The adaptive unconscious that empirical psychology has revealed, and that Wilson describes, is much more than a repository of primative drives and conflict-ridden memories. It is a set of pervasive, sophisticated mental processes that size up our worlds, set goals, and initiate action, all while we are consciously thinking about something else. If we don't know ourselves -- our potentials, feelings, or motives -- it is most often, Wilson tells us, because we have developed a plausible story about ourselves that is out of touch with our adaptive unconscious. Citing evidence that too much introspection can actually do damage, Wilson makes the case for better ways of discovering our unconscious selves. If you want to know who you are or what you feel or what you're like, Wilson advises, pay attention to what you actually do and what other people think about you. Showing us an unconscious more powerful that Freud's, and even more pervasive in our daily life, Strangers to Ourselves marks a revolution in how we know ourselves. The book is published by Harvard University Press.
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- Apexcomp
- 26-02-21
excellent book
Well worth a listen, I would recommend it to everyone as a reference to life and thoughts
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- Faisal
- 10-09-20
Good book 4.8
If u r looking for deeper understanding of yourself and and a few methods of how to change (not in much details) you should listen to this one.... It is not perfect but i have learned alot and I'll definitely listen to it a few more times
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- Ipek kaymak
- 30-01-23
Interesting
A bit of a psychology 101 - interesting and gets better as you read to the end
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- Kindle Customer
- 10-05-23
The narrator reads really well. It’s like he wrote it himself.
Really interesting content. One of the best psychology books I’ve listened to. I will add that the narrator is particularly good and I wonder how much that has to do with how much I enjoyed. Did learn a lot from it as well. Worth a listen.
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