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Black and White Thinking
- The Burden of a Binary Brain in a Complex World
- Narrated by: Theo Solomon
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
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It is human instinct to sort and categorise. We are hardwired to discriminate and frame everything in binary black and white. It's how our brains work. Migrant or refugee? Muslim or Christian? Them or us? Rather than reaching out to those who are different, we bond with those who are similar to ourselves. Rather than challenging our own thinking about the world, we endeavour only to confirm what we believe.
The result is that the difference between polarised beliefs becomes ever greater. Dangerous possibilities arise. The Alt Right. ISIS. Brexit. Trump. Through persistent binary thinking our capacity for rational and nuanced thought - seeing the grey, rather than merely black and white - begins to erode.
Black and White Thinking is an alarm call. Amidst a rising tide of religious intolerance and political extremism, it argues that by understanding the evolutionary programming of our binary brains we can overcome it, make sense of the world and in future make much subtler - and far better - decisions.
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"Essential insights into the character of human choice and decision-making. You'll not think about thinking the same way afterwards." (Robert Cialdini, author of Influence and Pre-suasion)
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- Jeremy Sadler
- 23-02-2021
Great content, poor narration
Sorry Theo, but I found it very difficult with the stoccato and stilted narration.
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- Allen
- 24-06-2021
interesting content but reader doesn't flow
listen on faster speed to help the reader flow better. audio is difficult to listen to which is unfortunate for an audiobook. otherwise, great book.
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