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Being the Person Your Dog Thinks You Are: The Science of a Better You
Contributor(s): Davies, Jim (Author)
ISBN: 164313650X     ISBN-13: 9781643136509
Publisher: Pegasus Books
OUR PRICE:   $27.50  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: February 2021
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BISAC Categories:
- Science | Cognitive Science
- Self-help | Personal Growth - Happiness
- Psychology | Personality
Dewey: 158.1
Physical Information: 1.7" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.32 lbs) 336 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
A crisp and sparkling blend of cognitive science and human behavior that offers meaningful and attainable pathways towards becoming our best selves.

Why do we feel like in order to be productive, happy, or good, we must sacrifice everything else? Is it possible to feel all three at once? Without even knowing it, we're doing things everyday to sabotage ourselves and our societies, habits that prevent us from optimizing long term happiness. Where most books imagine solutions that, when enacted, fail to fundamentally improve our lives, Jim Davies grounds his research in cognitive science to show you not only what works, but how much it works.

Being the Person Your Dog Thinks You Are shows us how we can use science to become our best selves, using resources we already have within our own brains.

Davies' book challenges and inspires us to approach the big picture while also staying mindful of the everyday details in real life. Davies proves why multitasking is bad for you, when a little unmindfulness can be good for you, how to best justify which charities to donate to, and how to hack your brain.

The most surprising truth Davies offers us spreads across these pages like wildfire: you too can lead an optimally good life, not through uprooting your life from the ground up, but from adapting your mentality to your given present. A better life doesn't need to look like a massive change--like our beloved dogs who already view us as our best selves, it's already much closer than you think.