图书标签: 心理学 社会学 Sociology Psychology DavidBrooks 社會學 社会 英文原版
发表于2024-05-10
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With unequaled insight and brio, David Brooks, the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bobos in Paradise, has long explored and explained the way we live. Now, with the intellectual curiosity and emotional wisdom that make his columns among the most read in the nation, 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. It is told through the lives of one composite American couple, Harold and Erica—how they grow, push forward, are pulled back, fail, and succeed. Distilling a vast array of information into these two vividly realized characters, Brooks illustrates a fundamental new understanding of human nature. A scientific revolution has occurred—we have learned more about the human brain in the last thirty years than we had in the previous three thousand. The unconscious mind, it turns out, is most of the mind—not a dark, vestigial place but a creative and enchanted one, where most of the brain's work gets done. This is the realm of emotions, intuitions, biases, longings, genetic predispositions, personality traits, and social norms: the realm where character is formed and where our most important life decisions are made. The natural habitat of The Social Animal.
Drawing on a wealth of current research from numerous disciplines, Brooks takes Harold and Erica from infancy to school; from the "odyssey years" that have come to define young adulthood to the high walls of poverty; from the nature of attachment, love, and commitment, to the nature of effective leadership. He reveals the deeply social aspect of our very minds and exposes the bias in modern culture that overemphasizes rationalism, individualism, and IQ. Along the way, he demolishes conventional definitions of success while looking toward a culture based on trust and humility.
The Social Animal is a moving and nuanced intellectual adventure, a story of achievement and a defense of progress. Impossible to put down, it is an essential book for our time, one that will have broad social impact and will change the way we see ourselves and the world.
David Brooks is an op-ed columnist for The New York Times. He has been a senior editor at The Weekly Standard and a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Atlantic Monthly, and he is a weekly commentator on PBS NewsHour. He is the author of the bestseller Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There and On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense.
撇开作者试图用认知科学解释行为的部分,这本书真是好看。常年给NYT写专栏的人的观察力真不是盖的。这本书里,他破,我立。
评分没有读同类书的枯燥感,很轻松的读了下来。
评分没有读同类书的枯燥感,很轻松的读了下来。
评分写了个长书评。我把这书给骂了
评分一直喜欢Brooks的世界观和文笔,此书可以算是他专栏观点的集大成者。可以说此书和我的立意相似,都是在串流行科学以说自己的话,但Brooks的执行要强得多。美中不足的是这一立意本身的肤浅以及Brooks写虚构角色太过刻意。
1.关于理性和意志力的局限性 虽然我希望自己任何时候都是举止得体,积极向上,正能量满满,11点钟以前睡觉,每周锻炼,不去街边的烧烤摊,按计划和节奏做事,但更多的时候总是事与愿违。这些问题一度被我归结为意志力薄弱,总觉得如果有一天我拥有更强的意志力控制自己,...
评分我们拥有了爱,也就在爱的进行曲中,去发现幸福。在这个世界上存在着很多、很美的东西,但不见得每个人都有发现美的眼睛。幸福是人生慢慢体验的过程。也许现在正在经历着一个比较艰辛、困难的时候,但是在这个过程当中,总有一个目标,那就是我们去追寻幸福。人生的乐观是养生...
评分人类常常把自己也叫做动物,为了区别与鸡鸭狗猫等动物的不同,人们把自己叫做高级动物。其实,“高级动物”只是我们调侃的通俗说法,翻译成作者的语言就是“社会动物”,也恰恰就是本书的题目。记得中学的历史课本上有这么一句话,人与动物的区别就是能够制造和利用工具。其实...
评分在华府一次新书发布会上,我第一次见到布鲁克斯。那时他已不再年轻,显出几分老相。可待他张口发言,那富有磁性的嗓音立刻吸引了全场听众——尤其是女性听众。作为《纽约时报》的专栏作家,布鲁克斯嘴皮子顺溜,笔头子更犀利,擅长在有限的篇幅内点明时局。 像有时...
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