“Making Habits, Breaking Habits” by Jeremy Dean. Full disclosure: If you buy the book through the link, it won’t cost you any more, but I’ll get a few pennies. But my main motivation for doing this is to understand the book properly. What follows is my summary of the chapter. The author, Jeremy Dean had a power cut. He looked out of the window and saw that the neighbours’ lights…
Full disclosure: If you buy the book through the link, it won’t cost you any more, but I’ll get a few pennies. But my main motivation for doing this is to understand the book properly. What follows is my summary of the chapter. People are astonishingly bad at describing what they find attractive in member of the (usually) opposite sex. But they’re no worse if the researcher switched photos –…
Full disclosure: If you buy the book through the link, it won’t cost you any more, but I’ll get a few pennies. A recent email conversation reminded me about my much-loved book on eccentrics written by a proper psychologist who did proper research. One of the first questions he tried to answer was whether or not eccentrics are slightly mentally ill. The answer was a resounding “No!” By all the…
“Making Habits, Breaking Habits” by Jeremy Dean. Full disclosure: If you buy the book through the link, it won’t cost you any more, but I’ll get a few pennies. But my main motivation for doing this is to understand the book properly. What follows is my summary of the chapter. We like to think that we chose our habits on purpose. Yeah right. Habits build up slowly, like learning to…
Christmas in Spain doesn’t finish until January 6th, when the three kings take their presents to Baby Jesus, and to good children. So it’s sort-of new year today. Or at least, it’s the first day of 2015 when I’ve had time to get off the hamster wheel for some medium-to-long term planning. So I’m reading “Making Habits, Breaking Habits” by Jeremy Dean. Like most people, I don’t do very well…
The Spanish version of “A Breathtaking Window on the Universe: A guide to the observatory at the Roque de los Muchachos” has gone to the printers. It will be on sale as soon as the books arrive, in about 2 weeks. There will be extracts on the Dragon Tree website very soon.