In his book "Spent" Geoffrey Miller explains consumerism from an evolutionary standpoint. Miller argues that consumerism has sold us on the lie that we need to buy things in order to display our most desirable traits. The constant bombardment of advertisements causes...
"Stumbling on Happiness" By Dan Gilbert illuminates the fact that we don't know what will make us happy. Our mind's eye has a blind spot which makes us misimagine the future. We mispredict how certain events will make us feel and pursue paths that won't necessarily...
The brain consists of two halves the left and the right. The "left brain" is responsible for linear logical thinking while the "right-brain" is responsible for big-picture creative thinking. We all use both sides but we tend to use one side more dominantly. In the...