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- Answered to What was the best book you read in 2022 and the main lesson you took from it?
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Definitely some recency bias clouding my decision but finished "Master and His Emissary" and I had a 'this is gonna change how I think about everything' type of feeling similar to "Thinking Fast and Slow" a decade ago
- Answered to Any good non-fiction recommendations?
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Iain McGilchrist, « The Master and his Emissary »… brilliant book, packed with insights like this Left-hemisphere-dominated art criticism has « airbrushed beauty out of the story of art, like a public figure that has fallen from favor in a brutal regime »
- Answered to What's your favorite book about psychology?
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I have been meaning to read this book for over a decade. I first purchased it in 2010 after hearing Lynda Barry sing its praises. I balked at its heft and its length and its Bible-thin pages and sold the hardcover at some point before one of our moves. Then I bought the paperback one day at Bookpeople after reading Leonard Shlain’s work. It took me two months to finish because I found it hard to read more than 10 pages in a day. It’s one of those books that has a cult following, because once you read it, it’s hard not to see the world through its lens.