THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOK

The most important book I’ve ever read about humanity and culture. I must read for anyone who cares about equality and plain humanity, whether you believe in free will or not, is irrelevant.

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Annoying a all luck

I made a complaint PDF because the PDF does not contain any footnotes. It’s been several weeks since I made the complaint and nothing has been done. It is absolutely pathetic that accompany like penguin can’t put together a PDF that contains footnotes. I can only imagine that the PDF that has been supplied to audible is not the PDF That was intended when the audible content was produced. Absolutely bloody disgraceful..
Other than that, this is a sensational book. I’m just totally pissed off that I had to go and buy a hard copy of it so that I could read the bloody foot notes really really annoying.

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On point!

So true. And hard to swallow. But true nonetheless, thank you for opening our eyes

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Please see the accompanying pdf for a footnote

Please see the accompanying pdf for a footnote did my head in and I had to stop listening

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ahead of it's time

interesting thoughts, and very readable, but the world is not ready for this idea yet

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Makes you think..

I already didn’t believe in free will, so my mind hasn’t been changed. However, how we should structure a society in a way that is ‘fair’ let’s say, given this fact, is a massive challenge. I feel this book argues slightly more in favour of socialistic principles than capitalistic ones, which I’ve always disagreed with. Whether people have free will or not, societies that work are better that ones that don’t, even if we don’t have free will and no one really ‘earns’ what they have. Nevertheless, this book has challenged my thinking in a lot of these ways, and even though I doubt my political stance will change, it’s certainly encouraged me to aim to think a little more openly on questions of this nature. Absolutely fantastic read.

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Masterpiece

A masterpiece of research and writing. Thank You Professor Sapolsky!!! 🙏🏾 💖 🙏🏾 Congratulations on this work and it's profound life transforming insights.

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Listening experience ruined by repeated excessive directives to footnotes

Very interesting listen to a highly technical subject. My concentration information absorbed and flow was ruined by “please see footnotes” repeated every paragraph or so. Please have a version where the footnotes reference is removed. I’m listening to an audiobook because I can’t look otherwise I would be reading.

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PDF for a footnote

Perfectly good and interesting book ruined by repeated references to “please see accompanying pdf for a footnote”

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Worst reading ever of a great book

You buy an audible book to listen to it when you can’t physically read. Being referred to a pdf for footnotes CONSTANTLY defeats the whole purpose as well as removing the charming and witty asides of Sapolsky which is what normally makes the heavy science such a delight. On top of this the reader can’t be drier and entirely fails to capture the humorous and engaging voice of Sapolsky. The audio book of ‘Behave’ is fantastic and I have listened to it at least three times. I had to return this and buy the physical book. The producer of the audio has ruined a deeply interesting and important book by trying to shorten it; if you are the sort of person to pick up a neuroscience book then you are not the sort of person who values brevity over quality of content. A profound misunderstanding of the target audience.

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