The book why evolution is true. I think of it as a narrative that we have running in our head about who's worth talking to and what's worth looking at. A starling my favorite example. This is a gorgeous bird There are a lot of them and they're also big nuisance to a lot of people so they got a bad rep. It would do more for your career if you were talking to one person at a cocktail party rather than the other. You just never know What path will lead to what right?It's like, uh, um, I can give you an example, but I mean it's kind of I just thought of this It's like Buddhism is
Robert Wright, author of Why Buddhism Is True, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the psychotherapeutic insights of Buddhism and the benefits of meditation and mindfulness. Wright argues our evolutionary past has endowed us with a mind that can be ill-suited to the stress of the present. He argues that meditation and the non-religious aspects of Buddhism can reduce suffering and are consistent with recent psychological research.