Eye opening and wonderful read to understand the complexities of being human Please try again Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. He reveals how the competitiveness of modern life can act as the perfect echo chamber that magnifies our less appealing qualities. Does this book contain inappropriate content? Interesting stuff though perhaps a bit long. In this superb, insightful, and important book, Prof. Paul Gilbert OBE explores human existence and the possibilities for creating a more sane, compassionate, and healthy world.
REVIEWS " Written by one of the world’s leading psychologists on evolutionary approaches to mental health problems Living Like Crazy looks into the sources of our craziness, cruelty and mindless callousness rooted in evolved gene-based strategies for nepotism, tribalism, power-seeking, greed and self-absorption. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations
The model takes into account factors including the age of a rating, whether the ratings are from verified purchasers, and factors that establish reviewer trustworthiness.Sorry, we failed to record your vote. I highly recommend for mental health professionals interested in expanding their work to the societal level. A great read for psychologists like myself, however I have also bought it for friends who have an interest in understanding the human experience, the impact this has on day to day living, including our politics, religion and other wider read, a must read for all. It is so refreshing to read a psychologist who actually writes about how individual-level psychological functioning and development is linked to macro-cultural processes and the world we both create and respond to. Professor Gilbert's points are backed up by thorough research, his extensive experience, and brilliant mind. This is no lightweight or faddish exploration. "Living Like Crazy by renowned international compassion and evolutionary psychologist Paul Gilbert dives into our innate potential for some of our dark sides of power, tribalism, status, aggression, cruelty and war. Gilbert shines the light on processes and structures that help us cultivate the compassionate antidote. Fabulous book by Paul Gilbert on the necessity of compassion in this crazy world of ours. Gilbert's kind heart and dedication to the alleviation of human suffering is woven through out.
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Please try again Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. Professor Gilbert's points are backed up by thorough research, his extensive experience, and brilliant mind. A wonderful book to add to your reading list - Paul Gilbert takes us on a journey into the reality of the human experience reminding us how important it is to cultivate our minds and to develop the emotional skills required for empathy and compassion - and to do that not only for ourselves but for the organisations and external environments we all contribute to creating - he lays down the compassionate challenge of waking up and claiming back our minds in the service of humanity. He reveals how the competitiveness of modern life can act as the perfect echo chamber that magnifies our less appealing qualities.
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He reveals how the competitiveness of modern life can act as the perfect echo chamber that magnifies our less appealing qualities. Some promotions may be combined; others are not eligible to be combined with other offers. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.A completely brilliant book and a "must read" if you care about the future of humanity. "Living Like Crazy by renowned international compassion and evolutionary psychologist Paul Gilbert dives into our innate potential for some of our dark sides of power, tribalism, status, aggression, cruelty and war. This remarkable work helps us make sense of who we are, where we come from, and how we so often do things that threaten our own existence as a species.