Feb 28, 2018
Although ostensibly about economics, this book is in fact about the effect of poverty of various kinds on the mind.
Poverty is a shortage of resources. It could be money, time (busy people are "time-poor"), or some other resource. When people experience scarcity, their minds automatically, subconsciously devote mental...
Feb 27, 2018
Edward de Bono's work can mostly be divided into two parts: models of how the mind works; and applications of principles extracted from those models to improve thinking, particularly creative thinking. The Mechanism of Mind is his first book, and it primarily deals with the first of these two parts.
De Bono wrote The...
Feb 1, 2018
Cal Newport is a computer scientist at Georgetown University who writes a blog called Study Hacks about effective study methods. We have covered one of his books already, So Good They Can't Ignore You, when I wanted to discuss career advice.
Before writing How to Become a Straight-A Student, Newport visited a number of...