The social animal: the hidden sources of love, character, and achievement
David Brooks
- Resource Type:
- Book (Print/Paper)
- Edition:
- Random House trade pbk. ed.
- Publication:
- New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2012
- Copyright:
- ©2012
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- Summary:
- "With unequaled insight and brio, New York Times columnist David Brooks has long explored and explained the way we live. Now Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illuminating work grounded in everyday life. This is the story of how success happens, told through the lives of one composite American couple, Harold and Erica. Drawing on a wealth of current research from numerous disciplines, Brooks takes Harold and Erica from infancy to old age, illustrating a fundamental new understanding of human nature along the way. The unconscious mind, it turns out, is not a dark vestigial place but a creative one where most of the brain's work gets done. This is the realm where character is formed and where our most important decisions are made - the natural habitat of the social animal. Brooks reveals the deeply social aspect of our minds and exposes the bias in modern culture that overemphasizes rationalism, individualism and IQ. He demolishes conventional definitions of success and looks toward a culture based on trust and humility. Now with an updated and eye-opening postscript that encapsulates and further explores the new sciences of the mind, The Social Animal is a moving intellectual adventure, a story of achievement and a defense of progress." -- Page 4 of cover.
- Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Decision making
- The map meld
- Mindsight
- Mapmaking
- Attachment
- Learning
- Norms
- Self-control
- Culture
- Intelligence
- Choice architecture
- Freedom and commitment
- Limerence
- The grand narrative
- Métis
- The insurgency
- Getting older
- Morality
- The leader
- The soft side
- The other education
- Meaning
- Postscript
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index.
- Author/Creator:
- Languages:
- English
- Language Notes:
- Item content: English
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- General Notes:
- "includes new material" -- Cover.
"Originally published in hardcover and in slightly different form ... by Random House ... in 2011." -- Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [387]-412) and index. - Physical Description:
- xvi, 430 pages ; 21 cm
- Call Numbers:
- HQ801 .B76 2012
- ISBNs:
- 9780812979374 (paperback)
0812979370 (paperback) - Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 2011501551
- OCLC Numbers:
- 774016949