There's a line early in The Elephant in the Brain that stops you cold: "Our brains are built to act in our self-interest while at the same time trying hard not to appear selfish in front of other people." That's not a cynical observation.

Sapolsky's book is built around one question — why did this person do that? And the brutal honesty that the answer is fifteen answers, all true at once.

Jordan Peterson opens his Personality and Its Transformations course with a claim that sounds dramatic until you realize it's just accurate: the shamanic pattern of death and reconstitution — the one that shows up in every religious tradition, every mythology, every depth psychology framework — is the actual structure of

There's a line in the first lecture of Jordan Peterson's How to Plan Your Life course that stopped me cold. "You don't have a choice about whether or not you're going to develop a vision for your life. You can either

Twenty years ago, a book called The Secret sold thirty million copies by telling people they could think their way to a Ferrari. Serious people mocked it. They were right to. The mystical packaging, the "universe" as a cosmic Amazon delivery service, the promise that cancer could be

Most people who read The Doors of Perception come away thinking it's a book about drugs. It isn't. It's a book about how little of reality you're actually seeing — and why that might be exactly what you need. The reducing valve Aldous

Most people assume they know why they do things. They're wrong — and the evidence is now substantial enough that ignoring it is a choice, not an oversight. I've spent the last year working through some of the most rigorous thinking on human behaviour: Sapolsky's