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Dr Gad Saad - The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

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The Sad Truth About Happiness, Eight Secrets for Leading the Good Life

The parasitic mind was about what happens to minds when they are parasitized by idea pathogens. The book is basically a combination of my personal anecdotes and the stuff, a lot of the Arabic Jewish stuff that you love to hear me say. But then it is backed up by the ancient wisdom. Here comes Aristotle. Here comes Epictetus. Here is Seneca coming at us. Here is Socrates, right? And then backed up by contemporary empirical science and happiness research,. psychology research, behavioral science, neuroscience. That's the book.

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