The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Does anyone have recommendations for audiobooks like those written by Malcolm Gladwell, except without the wrong conclusions? I like a lot about Malcolm Gladwell. He's got a good voice for narration, he can tell a good interesting narrative, he does a lot of research into fascinating real world cases. But I've got a big issue with him that he'll then draw very sweeping conclusions off those few anecdotes, and those conclusions are usually exaggerated at best or the complete opposite of actual reality at worst.
I liked the Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green, it was similar, except instead of trying to present some unifying theory of human psychology, each chapter basically just ended with "yep, humans really can be terrible sometimes" or "yep, humans really can be awesome sometimes". Without trying to present some simple fix to completely solve enormous social ills.
his research is poor, like regarding IQ. Poor research often leads to poor/wrong conclusions.
He's pretty bad at identifying which studies are good and which are bad, and at properly looking over all the studies. But he's great at finding interesting anecdotes.
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