This is my first post here but I have read a few of the tips, that people have gotten from this forum and I hope that you are also willing to help me out a bit I am applying to a customer service job in the gaming industry, and would be happy if someone could give me some feedback on my cover letter, since I have never written one in english before. I have removed some of the details about the job, and put a description of it instead in [ ].
I am writing to you to apply for the position of [name of the position] advertised on your website on the 29th of February 2008.
I found the job description to be very interesting, and I believe that I would be an ideal candidate for the following reasons.
I have worked within the field of customer service for more than 4 years. During this time I gained experience on how to communicate with people.
I had the responsibility for training and coaching employees, in addition to handling the most difficult customer inquiries. This makes me able to deliver messages in a professional way, and to fit them to individual persons if needed.
I have a lot of experience serving as a link between customers, employees and clients, as being the person who had all the answers, or knew how to get them, was a main part of my previous employment. I believe that my experience in handling flow of information, and making it suitable for the recipient, could be of great use in a position like this.
As a person I am very detail oriented and organized. I always set high standards for my work and I am not satisfied until those are achieved. I work well in a team, and I do not shy away from taking responsibility for any task at hand.
In addition to this gaming is a hobby of mine and has been so for years. I spend a lot of time browsing different game related forums and websites, and I have experience as a forum moderator. I am a big fan of [company name] products and a very active [name of a game] player.
I see this job as an opportunity to combine my passion for working with people with my gaming hobby, and I would very much like to take on the challenge.
I have included my resume for more information on my background.
Thank you for considering my application. I look forward to hearing from you soon, and am available for an interview at whatever time is suitable for you. I can be contacted at the following number: [my phone number].
This is my first post here but I have read a few of the tips, that people have gotten from this forum and I hope that you are also willing to help me out a bit I am applying for a customer service job in the gaming industry, and would be happy if someone could give me some feedback on my cover letter, since I have never written one in English before. I have removed some of the details about the job, and put in a description of it instead. [ ].
I am writing to you to apply for the position of [name of the position], advertised on your website on the 29th of February 2008.
I have worked within the field of customer service for more than 4 years. During this time I have gained experience on how to communicate with people. I had the responsibility for training and coaching employees, in addition to handling the most difficult customer inquiries. This has enabled me able to deliver information in a professional way, and to adjust this information to suit the individual needs of each customer.
I have a lot of experience serving as a link between customers, employees and clients (where? "at the above job"?); and being the person who had the information, or knew how to obtain the information, was the key part of my previous employment. I believe that my experience in handling the flow of information, and making it suitable for customers, could be of great use to you.
In addition to this, gaming is a hobby of mine and has been so for years. I spend a lot of time browsing different game related forums and websites, and I have experience as a forum moderator. I am a big fan of [company name] products and a very active [name of a game] player.
I have included my resume for more detailed information on my background.


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Step 1. Buy a versatile rack
Step 2. Get a barbell and weights
Step 3. Find an adjustable bench
Step 4. Add a few extras
How I set up my own home gym
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The best budget gear for building a garage gym
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Setting up a home gym can be intimidating due to the high costs of gear like dumbbells or squat racks.
With a variety of budget equipment, anyone with a spare room can set up an inexpensive and effective home gym.
We've compiled the following guide for how to create a gym in whatever amount of space you have at home.
We've all had to make adjustments in our lives to keep ourselves and the people around us safe, and one of the biggest changes has been to our weekly fitness routines. While there are loads of no-equipment ways of staying fit, they're not the ideal solution for everyone.
Be it different goals or personal preferences, people who prefer weight training at their local gym may find themselves at a loss without the same variety of stations, machines, and racks readily available to use at home. There are several great bodyweight exercises one can do, but they're not always a suitable substitute for those who consider the gym a second residence.
I'm one of those people and if you're like me, I have a bit of good news: If you have the space for it, building a versatile weightlifting station in your home is both easy and affordable — so long as you know what equipment to focus on.
Below is a guide to building a back-to-basics weight training setup that allows you to target all the muscle groups you're used to working on, all while keeping equipment costs to a minimum. It's intended to help home-bound bodybuilders construct a home gym setup that offers a full-body workout without the typically steep costs that come with it.
Here's what you need to set up a garage gym:
Fitness Gear Pro Half Rack
The centerpiece of this operation is a versatile rack that facilitates as much movement as possible without locking you into specific functions. Squat racks typically do the trick since they feature multiple points of rack height that can be used for several different exercises — no matter if you need to stand, sit, or lay down on a bench.
A rack is also the most intimidating part to shop for since most of the standout setups you find online are huge power racks with equally huge asking prices. My choice was this Fitness Gear Pro Squat Rack that's set to do all I need without a scary cost.
The added safety bars help me work out alone with confidence and it's easy to quickly adjust the pegs between exercises.
$399.99 from Dick's Sporting Goods
Other racks to consider:
CAP Barbell FM-8000F Deluxe Power Rack
Merax Barbell Rack 550LBS Max Load Adjustable Squat Stand Dipping Station Gym Weight Bench Press Stand
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Fitness Gear 300 lb. Olympic Weight Set
Weights also typically come with a hesitation-inducing price tag, mainly due to the fact you need so many for even a modest selection. Thankfully, Fitness Gear's 300 lb. Olympic Weight Set alleviates a lot of that sticker shock (even if they don't look exactly like what you're used to). Some of its weights are dimensionally smaller than their gym counterparts, but they weigh the same and that's what ultimately counts.
The barbell is a standard 7-foot, 45 lb. bar that accommodates plates with a 2-inch diameter hole. Spring clips are also included.
Even if you normally max out certain exercises at a higher weight, this 300-pound kit still gives you plenty to work with, especially if you're mixing things up. If you feel the need to upgrade and your chosen rack can handle it, improving your kit is as easy as buying a few new weight plates for your collection.
The main drawback is that, as a standard set of iron weights, they aren't meant to be tossed around or dropped like rubberized plates. Slamming them or doing an overhead lift that you might need to bail from is likely to damage them (or the ground), so be mindful of this when mapping out a routine.
Other weight sets to consider:
CAP Barbell 300 lb. Olympic Grip Weight Set
York Barbell 2″ Cast Iron Olympic Weight Plate Set (210lb or 300lb set)
Fitness Gear Fixed Flat Weight Bench
A simple bench rounds out a core home gym setup since having something to sit or lay down on makes all the difference when diversifying workouts. Paired with the rack and barbell set, you've got a complete full-body workout unit.
This bench from Fitness Gear yet again features a more manageable price tag. It won't be able to fold up to create an incline or completely vertical bench but it does work well for a variety of exercises like bench press, dumbbell flys, and others.
$79.98 from Dick's Sporting Goods
Other benches to consider:
Marcy Flat Weight Bench
Cap Barbell Flat Bench
As you complete your set, there are a few things you might want to consider adding to your setup, depending on where your home gym is located and how your strength gains progress. Here are some examples of extras you should consider:
Gym mats: A gym mat is great for creating a comfortable place to lift weights, practice yoga, or stretch, and works especially well in a garage gym where the floor is likely concrete.
Weight belt: Even if you aren't consistently lifting or squatting heavy weights, it's still smart to wear a weight belt. This is especially true if you work out alone and don't have anyone around to spot you.
Water bottle: It's important to stay hydrated no matter the workout or intensity of your routine.
Resistance bands: A set of resistance bands are a great addition to any home gym setup and can replicate many gym-specific lifts while also boosting some bodyweight exercises like push-ups or jumping jacks.
Dumbbells: Owning a set of dumbbells supplements many of the lifts you're able to do with a rack and barbell and are great for targeting specific muscle groups.
Some time ago, I decided to put the tiny, shed-like garage in the back of my house to good use and constructed a mini gym. My goal was to build something capable of supplementing the training I often did elsewhere and that would suffice when getting to the gym was difficult, or for when I wanted to train in private.
Along with not having much space to work with, I wasn't ready to drop loads of cash I didn't have on a pricey, sophisticated power rack with enough moving parts to make a mechanical engineer go cross-eyed. By sticking to the fundamentals, I was able to put together an inexpensive setup that gives me a diverse number of options when it comes to different exercises.
Now, whatever I'm used to doing at the gym I can do at home, and even when I can't, it's still designed to provide a worthy alternative. It's a setup that's good for beginners and intermediate lifters, and can even help advanced trainers maintain their fitness — all while keeping the price tag as low as possible.
With your new setup, you might find yourself experimenting with loads of different exercises — and you should. Just keep in mind that while this gear allows you to do certain movements, it might not be the best idea. First, trying something new that's beyond your level of strength and coordination could lead to trouble, so start anything you do with a lighter weight.
You'll also want to consider the specific type of your equipment. If you have a standard set of iron weights, you're able to do things like power cleans, split jerks, and all the fun movements you'd see at your local CrossFit spot. However, it's far safer if you don't.
If you're alone in the garage and something happens, there's no one to bail you out of danger. And on the subject of bailing, many of those types of exercises ask you to drop the barbell and step away when there's a slip-up. It's one thing to do that in a big warehouse where rubberized weights can bounce away without harming your gear or anything else — it's another to send your iron equipment crashing down on itself in your confined garage space.
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These promotions may encourage voter participation during the elections
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Ahead of the 2019 general elections, local Nigerian airlines, Aero Contractors and Arik Air have introduced travel promo deals for Nigerians who have to travel to other states to vote. A move that will not only lower costs but also enable citizens to carry out their civic responsibility following the postponement of the general elections.
Effective from February 18th, Aero Contractors would begin the sale of tickets from N16,000 (which is about 50 percent off) for travels between February 21 and February 25 on all routes. Likewise, Arik Air would begin its N16,000 "Fly to vote promotion" sales from February 18 till March 11 for travels between February 21 and February 26, as well as March 7 till March 12. Customers will be required to present a valid Permanent Voters Card (PVC) before purchasing their tickets and at various check-in point.
The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) also announced a price slash, as its own way of encouraging voter participation. IPMAN has instructed its members managing filling stations across the country to sell petrol for N140 per litre against the official pump price of N145 per litre, from 20th February to 25th February 2019.
"IPMAN was prompted to slash N5 from the N145 per litre official petrol pump price in a bid to motivate Nigerians to return to vote again on February 23. We urge all our members across Nigeria to immediately reduce the fuel pump price from N145 per litre to N140 per litre," said IPMAN's National President, Chinedu Okoronkwo in a statement.
Nigeria's electoral body, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the early hours of Saturday postponed the general election originally scheduled to hold 16th February 2019. The new date for General elections has been set for the 23rd February 2019. The governor and state assembly elections were also moved to March 9, 2019, from its original date of March 2, 2019.
As expected, the announcement sparked mixed reactions from Nigerians, especially on social media. Nigerians who travelled out of town to vote were particularly upset considering how much they had spent on transportation. Following the postponement, there have been growing concerns that voters may no longer be motivated to participate this Saturday for the fear of being disappointed again.
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Election 2016: Carly Fiorina Could Join GOP Field
By Ginger Gibson @GingerGibson
01/14/15 AT 3:18 PM
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina Reuters
WASHINGTON -- Two dozen Republicans already have hinted they might get into the 2016 presidential race, but Carly Fiorina is used to fighting her way to the top of a crowded field. The former Hewlett-Packard CEO said Wednesday that she's building a platform for a possible 2016 campaign focused on business and helping the middle class.
"I am seriously considering it. I haven't made a decision, but I think there is a need perhaps for a different perspective, a different set of experiences and different voices," she said. "I think I'll probably make a decision one way or another in the March, April time frame."
Fiorina released a report in conjunction with the University of Virginia and AOL co-founder Steve Case on how to create middle-class jobs by encouraging entrepreneurship. For someone with a strong business background, a report like this one is a form of campaign speech. Fiorina thinks her message will resonate with voters.
"You have to point people to their Main Streets. People see this. I think despite the continuing good news at many levels in the economy, that the reason a majority of Americans believe their future is not bright and their children's future is less bright is they look at their Main Streets and they see small-business owners who are struggling, they see shops that are boarded up," Fiorina told reporters after the rollout of her report. "They see this, they don't see a vital, vibrant Main Street."
The report offers insight into what her campaign would sound like.
"When and if I make that decision, there will be plenty of time to talk about my platform, but I think you heard a lot today about what I believe is the secret sauce of the American economic miracle," she said. "And I think the secret sauce is that human desire to build a better life and to live a life of dignity and purpose and meaning."
Fiorina isn't foreign to the world of politics. In 2010, she was the Republican nominee for Senate in California. She lost, but came closer than any Republican had to toppling Barbara Boxer.
The Republican field is likely to be exceptionally competitive, full of nationally known figures. As a business-focused moderate, she'd be competing for donors, staff -- and votes -- against Jeb Bush, Chris Christie and Mitt Romney. Becoming a candidate would resurrect the issue of her public dismissal from HP and the criticism that surfaced about her management methods.
But she would be distinctive. She is currently the only woman on the Republican side who appears to be building a campaign. She was the first woman to head a Fortune 20 company and often was named one of the most powerful women in business. And, having started small, she has a relatable narrative.
"I started as a secretary in a nine-person firm. It's where most people started, little business," she said.
Fiorina is making the case that small businesses and helping entrepreneurship flourish are the keys to creating middle-class jobs.
"The discouraging sign to me is that, honestly, big government works very well for big business and this is a town of big government," Fiorina said. "I'm not quite sure we understand that to really rev up the engine of innovation and entrepreneurship, we are going to have to fundamentally reform." She added, "We have to start undoing some of this stuff and we have to start undoing with the goals of entrepreneurs and small business and innovators in mind."
"Helping the middle class" is a message that other politicians in both parties have identified as a winner. Hillary Clinton has made it a central talking point. Romney has hinted that bolstering the middle class could be a key element of his campaign, if he runs.
According to a Pew Research survey in 2014, 44 percent of the public considers themselves middle class and another 40 percent say they are lower middle class. And that same group has seen stagnant wages even as the recession has ended.
"Entrepreneurship is a profoundly human desire," Fiorina said. "It's about wanting to build something, wanting to create something new, wanting to make a difference, for yourself and for your family," Fiorina said.
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The Cowboys just staked a claim as one of the NFC contenders. Now what?
The Panthers went into the half with a 14-13 lead and were receiving the ball first to start the second half. D.J. Moore took the ball 39 yards down field and the Panthers were officially in business. And then the avalanche happened. A missed field goal, two interceptions, and 23 Cowboys points later, the rout was on.
Things got a little bit dicey toward the end of the fourth quarter as the 36-14 lead was cut to 36-28, but the game was never much in doubt. It was another dominant performance from the Cowboys, especially offensively. This offense is unique in that there are so many ways to beat defenses and it seems like Dallas is picking opponents apart differently each week.
Prescott spreads the ball around without a concern of making sure star players get their touches. He spreads it around to his receivers and tight ends to the point that if CeeDee Lamb has a quiet day, that likely means Dalton Schultz and Blake Jarwin are having a big day as they did Sunday.
This week Dallas rode the rushing attack again and Dak Prescott was masterful again as he poured on four touchdowns. Ezekiel Elliott looks the most explosive he's looked since his rookie year. He's averaging more yards per carry than his rookie year with 5.3 yards per carry so far this year, and broke his longest rush since his rookie year with a 47-yard carry Sunday. Elliott's revival is a perfect storm of three things: Elliott being in much better shape and being much leaner, fantastic run blocking, and Tony Pollard taking some of the load off his shoulders.
This is by far the least amount of touches Elliott has had through four weeks in his career with 71 touches so far. At this point of the season in 2016-2020 he had 100, 92, 88, 84, and 93 touches, respectively. This is the freshest and most efficient Elliott we've seen in years and it's due to those three factors.
On the other side of the ball the young Cowboys continue to impress. After a rough first half, Dan Quinn dialed up lots of pressure on Sam Darnold the entire second half. It put Darnold off of his spot and forced him into a lot of mistakes, including two massive interceptions to Trevon Diggs, who continued his early-season tear with his fourth and fifth interceptions of the season. I said before the season that if Dallas is going to be successful, it needs Diggs to take a second-year leap. So far Diggs has begun establishing himself was one of the league's premier cornerbacks.
The other element of the defense that has taken things to a new level has been Randy Gregory and the rest of the pass rush. Gregory had another monster afternoon with two sacks and toyed with Cam Erving all afternoon. Osa Odighizuwa continued his incredible start to his rookie season. He already has seven quarterback hits, which is three more than any Cowboys defensive tackle had last year.
Odighizuwa and Micah Parsons lead all defensive rookies in quarterback pressures as well. After missing all of training camp, Chauncey Golston has been impressive in his first two career games as well as he recorded a half-sack Sunday. Dallas racked up 11 hits and five sacks on Darnold, which much of that coming from the defensive adjustments of the second half.
In the third quarter of this game the Cowboys put a stranglehold on the game and did not let go.
Where does this leave the Cowboys among the NFC contenders?
With a strong 3-1 start and the only loss coming through a last-second field goal to the defending Super Bowl champs on opening night, the Cowboys are looking like one of the strongest teams in the conference. At this point I would probably slot them behind the Cardinals, Rams, Packers, and Bucs, but the Cowboys have a chance to stack a lot of wins over the next few weeks before they head to Kansas City.
The Cowboys are absolutely one of the, if not the best offenses in the NFL. Here is where Dallas ranks in success rate:
Where the Cowboys' offense ranks in Success Rate (% of plays with positive EPA):
Passing plays: No. 2 (Chiefs No. 1)Rushing plays: No. 1
Overall: No. 1
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The Righteous Mind
Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
By: Jonathan Haidt
Narrated by: Jonathan Haidt
Categories: Health & Wellness, Psychology & Mental Health
4.6 out of 5 stars 4.6 (11,111 ratings)
The Coddling of the American Mind
How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
By: Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff
The culture of "safety" and its intolerance of opposing viewpoints has left many young people anxious and unprepared for adult life. Lukianoff and Haidt offer a comprehensive set of reforms that will strengthen young people and institutions, allowing us all to reap the benefits of diversity, including viewpoint diversity. This is a book for anyone who is confused by what's happening on college campuses today, or has children, or is concerned about the growing inability of Americans to live and work and cooperate across party lines.
Only Praise
By: Jonathan Haidt, and others
The Happiness Hypothesis
Narrated by: Ryan Vincent Anderson
The Happiness Hypothesis is about ten Great Ideas. Each chapter is an attempt to savor one idea that has been discovered by several of the world's civilizations - to question it in light of what we now know from scientific research, and to extract from it the lessons that still apply to our modern lives and illuminate the causes of human flourishing. Award-winning psychologist Jonathan Haidt, the author of The Righteous Mind, shows how a deeper understanding of the world's philosophical wisdom and its enduring maxims can enrich and even transform our lives.
Excellent Book; Highly Recommend
By Greg on 02-07-19
The Blank Slate
The Modern Denial of Human Nature
By: Steven Pinker
Narrated by: Victor Bevine
In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading experts on language and the mind, explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. With characteristic wit, lucidity, and insight, Pinker argues that the dogma that the mind has no innate traits, denies our common humanity and our individual preferences, replaces objective analyses of social problems with feel-good slogans, and distorts our understanding of politics, violence, parenting, and the arts.
Excellent, as expected
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How to Have Impossible Conversations
A Very Practical Guide
By: Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay
Narrated by: Peter Boghossian
In How to Have Impossible Conversations, Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay guide you through the straightforward, practical, conversational techniques necessary for every successful conversation - whether the issue is climate change, religious faith, gender identity, race, poverty, immigration, or gun control. Boghossian and Lindsay teach the subtle art of instilling doubts and opening minds. They cover everything from learning the fundamentals for good conversations to achieving expert-level techniques to deal with hardliners and extremists.
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By: Heather Heying, Bret Weinstein
Narrated by: Heather Heying, Bret Weinstein
We are living through the most prosperous age in all of human history, yet we are listless, divided, and miserable. Wealth and comfort are unparalleled, but our political landscape is unmoored, and rates of suicide, loneliness, and chronic illness continue to skyrocket. How do we explain the gap between these truths? And how should we respond? For evolutionary biologists Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein, the cause of our troubles is clear: The accelerating rate of change in the modern world has outstripped the capacity of our brains and bodies to adapt.
Presents conjecture and bias as science
By Reviewer on 09-16-21
By: Heather Heying, and others
The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Narrated by: Arthur Morey
Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. Instead, follow the data: Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise, not just in the West but worldwide.
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Narrated by: Patrick Egan
The guru to the gurus at last shares his knowledge with the rest of us. Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman's seminal studies in behavioral psychology, behavioral economics, and happiness studies have influenced numerous other authors, including Steven Pinker and Malcolm Gladwell. In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman at last offers his own, first book for the general public. It is a lucid and enlightening summary of his life's work. It will change the way you think about thinking. Two systems drive the way we think and make choices, Kahneman explains....
Wow. Academic at times, but very thought-provoking
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By: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
Narrated by: Dan Woren
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?
Important themes, with blind spots
By: Daron Acemoglu, and others
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How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
By: John McWhorter
Narrated by: John McWhorter
Acclaimed linguist and award-winning writer John McWhorter argues that an illiberal neoracism, disguised as antiracism, is hurting Black communities and weakening the American social fabric.
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Narrated by: Joyce Bean, Leil Lowndes
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Too self important
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Narrated by: Douglas Murray
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This book destroys WOKE MADNESS. Read it today.
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A Renegade History of the United States
By: Thaddeus Russell
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
American history was driven by clashes between those interested in preserving social order and those more interested in pursuing their own desires---the "respectable" versus the "degenerate", the moral versus the immoral. The more that "bad" people existed, resisted, and won, the greater was our common good. In A Renegade History of the United States, Russell introduces us to the origins of our nation's identity as we have never known them before.
One of those books...that cause brain freeze!
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Narrated by: Susan Osman, Robert J. Shiller - introduction
Spread through the public in the form of popular stories, ideas can go viral and move markets - whether it's the belief that tech stocks can only go up or that housing prices never fall. Whether true or false, stories like these - transmitted by word of mouth, by the news media, and increasingly by social media - drive the economy by driving our decisions about how and where to invest, how much to spend and save, and more. But despite the obvious importance of such stories, most economists have paid little attention to them. Narrative Economics sets out to change that.
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An Antidote to Chaos
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Narrated by: Jordan B. Peterson
What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research. Humorous, surprising, and informative, Dr. Peterson tells us why skateboarding boys and girls must be left alone, what terrible fate awaits those who criticize too easily, and why you should always pet a cat when you meet one on the street.
Makes you think about how you are looking at your life
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Moral Tribes
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By: Joshua Greene
Narrated by: Mel Foster
A pathbreaking neuroscientist reveals how our social instincts turn Me into Us, but turn Us against Them - and what we can do about it. The great dilemma of our shrinking world is simple: never before have those we disagree with been so present in our lives. The more globalization dissolves national borders, the more clearly we see that human beings are deeply divided on moral lines - about everything from tax codes to sexual practices to energy consumption - and that, when we really disagree, our emotions turn positively tribal.
An Exceedingly Interesting...
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A Brief History of Humankind
By: Yuval Noah Harari
Narrated by: Derek Perkins
Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. Yuval Noah Harari breaks the mold with this highly original book. From examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem to charting the rise of empires, Sapiens integrates history and science to reconsider accepted narratives, connect past developments with contemporary concerns, and examine specific events within the context of larger ideas.
Fascinating, despite claims of errors
By Jonas Blomberg Ghini on 12-09-19
Why Violence Has Declined
Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen. Yet as New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true: violence has been diminishing for millennia and we may be living in the most peaceful time in our species's existence.
A great book but...
Behave
The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
By: Robert Sapolsky
Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom
From the celebrated neurobiologist and primatologist, a landmark, genre-defining examination of human behavior, both good and bad, and an answer to the question: Why do we do the things we do? Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: He starts by looking at the factors that bear on a person's reaction in the precise moment a behavior occurs, and then hops back in time from there, in stages, ultimately ending up at the deep history of our species and its evolutionary legacy.
By Doug Hay on 07-27-17
Why can't our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens?
In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding. His starting point is moral intuition - the nearly instantaneous perceptions we all have about other people and the things they do. These intuitions feel like self-evident truths, making us righteously certain that those who see things differently are wrong.
Haidt shows us how these intuitions differ across cultures, including the cultures of the political left and right. He blends his own research findings with those of anthropologists, historians, and other psychologists to draw a map of the moral domain, and he explains why conservatives can navigate that map more skillfully than can liberals. He then examines the origins of morality, overturning the view that evolution made us fundamentally selfish creatures.
But rather than arguing that we are innately altruistic, he makes a more subtle claim - that we are fundamentally groupish. It is our groupishness, he explains, that leads to our greatest joys, our religious divisions, and our political affiliations. In a stunning final chapter on ideology and civility, Haidt shows what each side is right about, and why we need the insights of liberals, conservatives, and libertarians to flourish as a nation.
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"Haidt is looking for more than victory. He's looking for wisdom. That's what makes The Righteous Mind well worth reading…. a landmark contribution to humanity's understanding of itself." ( The New York Times Book Review)
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What listeners say about The Righteous Mind
Fundamentally changed my thinking
This book only earned its fifth star from me a week after I finished it and I realized it had changed the way I think about other humans.
Reading political arguments on Facebook, I've started thinking about everyone's position in terms of the underlying values Haidt identifies. It is particularly valuable to me to understand the impact that "sacred" ideas have on people's thinking. Surface-level logic won't help to budge a person if it contradicts what's sacred to them, so either arguments need to work with that, or strong emotional tools are necessary that can reach and adjust that sacred value itself. It's a simple but profound insight that will influence how I do my job for years to come, so a book that accomplishes that deserves five stars.
The first few chapters alone are worth the price of the book. If you ever want to convince anyone of anything, understanding the power of our emotional instincts and how our logical mind works to rationalize them is necessary.
I will quibble with a few things. It is unclear whether the author believes there truly are six distinct moral frameworks that have separately and physically evolved in the mind, or whether this is just a useful artificial system of categories to help understand a much more complex underlying moral system. The conflation of what's real and what's a useful abstraction leads to some sloppy thinking. He assumes that each moral framework are set up as binaries (good v. bad) without defending why the brain would work that way. So, for example, he suggests our sense of sacredness can only exist if we have a sense of disgust to contrast it. Maybe, maybe not. The fact he offered no evidence suggests the idea is so embedded in his thinking he doesn't realize it's an empirical question.
Heidt is also, at times, slips into relativism, suggesting (I think without meaning to) that understanding why someone believes something is right or wrong is to justify that moral belief. Better understanding why people believe what they do is valuable for moving issues forward. It does not require that we respect or agree with throwing acid in women's faces or treating lower classes with discrimination. While he himself makes this point late in the book, he avoidably crosses the line into relativism more than once early on.
He spends the latter part of the book defending the value of religion as a group adaptation to allow humans to work together more effectively. Some of his evidence here feels flaky, like the powerful common feeling ravers feel while dancing. While ravers like to suggest they are building a stronger sense of common humanity, because that idea makes them feel good, I have first-hand experience to suggest that this is bullshit. His conclusions are compelling and suggest a need for atheists to think about accomplishing what religion does by other means, but as the cliché goes, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. More work needs to be done on the evidence.
Necessary book for a divided people
I'm so glad I heard this book during the 2016 U.S. election season. We are a divided people, and if we're going to move forward we need to find our way back to an understanding of each other. If you want to try to understand people who think differently than you, buy this book. You'll probably come away knowing more about yourself too.
Even if you don't agree with all his conclusions, the information in here's too important to skip over! I have heard some other evolutionary psychology books, so I wondered if this would just be redundant, but it wasn't. It really brings the evo psych knowledge to bear on political and social problems. Also the most convincing argument for group selection I've heard. But I think this would also make a great introduction if you've never heard any evolutionary psychology before. I intend to foist it on my unsuspecting husband next road trip.
Jonathan Haidt (pronounced like 'height', btw, not 'hate') gets an extra star on the performance because he actually verbally describes photos, charts, and graphs (!) as well as making sure they are available online. He must be an audiobook listener himself.
Floyd Clark
This should give you pause.
I just finish this book and I have to admit it give me a great deal of pause As a liberal thinker, i've tried to fully understand the counterpoints to liberalism. And sometimes find myself wondering "why would anybody want to be a conservative?" Well, I seem to understand better now. Not that I'm going to abandon liberalism, but rather try to understand conservatism better.
Darwin8u
I was Made to Disagree with my Father.
Jonathan Haidt give a nice social science explanation for how we align politically and how we are built to disagree. This is one of those books that seems to fit in the same evolutionary psychology space as Bob Wright's 'The Moral Animal'. It is a combination of ethnography + evolutionary psychology + experimental psychology.
In 'The Righteous Mind', Haidt isn't seeking simply to explain why some people vote Left and others vote Right, or why some people believe in God A and other believe in God B. Haidt's bigger purpose is to explain how we are all hardwired to use reason NOT to MAKE our moral decisions/choices, but rather to use reason to BUTTRESS the choices (about God, politics, etc) that we've already made.
While I think his approach is a bit too simplistic, I still use his Moral Foundations Theory to explain why my father and I might have some overlap in values but different political views. I like the whole matrix of:
1. Care/harm: cherishing and protecting others.
2. Fairness/cheating: rendering justice according to shared rules. (Alternate name: Proportionality)
3. Liberty/oppression: the loathing of tyranny.
4. Loyalty/betrayal: standing with your group, family, nation. (Alternate name: Ingroup)
5. Authority/subversion: obeying tradition and legitimate authority. (Alternate name: Respect.)
6. Sanctity/degradation: abhorrence for disgusting things, foods, actions. (Alternate name: Purity.)
Do I agree that liberals rank certain of these values higher than conservatives? Yes.
Do I agree that conservatives might value some of these foundational values more than liberals? Yes.
Do I agree that this list is the end-all, be-all of our Moral compass? No.
I think this is a good beginning. It is another social science draft that gives another way to look at how we think, how our thinking has evolved, and how we interact with each other. Any theory involving the human brain is bound to be a bit of a game in the dark. I think there are answers and many of the answers are compelling, but not all answers will be final or correct.
Look, there were certain parts of this book that just felt right, so I will spend a bit of time building a rational reason why it feels right and then post that reason on Audible.
DCowan
Poorly researched
In the first five minutes, Jonathan Haidt has such a clear bias I couldn't get through the rest of the chapter without my mind constantly picking up little digs here and there. For a book that is supposed to be (partially) about how people view religion, the author clearly took no time to study apologetics or hermeneutics. I find his willingness to accept what other, unlearned, people say about religion without actually delving into the topic himself off putting — at best... intellectually dishonest — at worse.
Required reading... with one caveat.
What did you love best about The Righteous Mind?
Broad, scientific approach to understanding the biology of human behavior.
What other book might you compare The Righteous Mind to and why?
"Thinking Fast and Slow" by Kahneman and "The Believing Brain" by Shermer in terms of understanding neuroscience and the way our brains, opinions and behaviors come about.
We've created a culture where we all operate under the illusion that we need to be right. We convince ourselves that our thoughts and actions stem from some innate ability to realize and appreciate a guiding, transcendent truth, whether it be social, spiritual or logical. The humbling reality is that we have selfish genes which utilize complex modules to ensure their survival. Haidt cogently describes our biology with both scientific and symbolic aplomb.
As a biologist and physician, I have great appreciation for this perspective. I particularly appreciate the analogy between our ethical "taste" modules and our literal gustatory senses. We cannot fight the fact that we are hardwired to respond to these tastes and indulging them initiates the neurochemical cascade which, if deprived, would leave us bereft of the true experience of humanness.
Continuing this analogy, I would attempt to demonstrate where Haidt possibly falls short in helping both himself and his reader best apply their enhanced understanding of human and cultural biology.
As our ethical "tastes" for sanctity, loyalty and authority have a place in maintaining safety and wellness, our taste for sugar and fat has served our species greatly in times of scarcity. The utility of these modules is entirely contextual though. In the United States (my very divided country), we live in relative abundance. The vast majority has an excess of calories as well as social safety. The context has changed and indulging our hunger for fat and sugar as well as symbolic tribal loyalty, sanctity and authoritarian acquiescence has very negative consequences. We benefit when we recognize mal-adaptive application of natural tendencies. There is little risk that we will go hungry if we forgo calories and there is little risk that the fabric of our society (and our own differential survivability) will fall apart if we question authority, symbolism or factionism.
We live in a country of abundance and safety. Indulging these tastes is causing an epidemic of obesity, hypertension, diabetes and heart disease. Could not the same be happening when insisting on applying unnecessary ethical modules? I enjoy being clean AND my understanding of germs and public health tells me I don't need to be continually vigilant. I enjoy my groups of shared interest AND I don't need to denigrate or vilify any groups to which I do not belong. I appreciate order AND I know rules and laws exist to serve a social purpose but my eternal soul is not at risk should I fail to worship compliance.
Haidt is correct in that Conservatives indulge their ethical tastes more broadly. Their message is an ethical meal that satisfies many of our cravings. The Liberterian and Liberal ideologies are less appealing to a broad population... but dining at their table more often may be the only way of preventing the epidemic of ethical indulgence?
Last great chance to stop all of the Hate
This should be required reading before people are allowed to voice opinions in the political process. (Kidding since that would restrict free speech) Still such a requirement wold hopefully tone down the hate that has become standard fair in political circles. It was refreshing to be reminded that the other side is not evil, just different in their approach to what is morally right. Interesting to learn how our brains work in this department and how we can strive to be more thoughtful before our subconscious completely takes over. Fascinating reading into how we both innately feel and learn what is right and wrong.
A very worthwhile read if you are one of the very few who actually want to understand why people who think differently from you think as they do. Lest you think I an too hopeful I have decided on the headlines of the book reviews in two different publications. The NY Times will headline "Research shows liberals care more about others than conservatives". The National Review will headline "Research shows liberals have an unbalanced moral foundation".
Finally this book explains why an economic conservative, libertarian, recent Christ follower such as myself is so conflicted on what is moral.
K. Cunningham
Why Good People Are Divided - Good for whom?
By and large, I think this is a good and even an important book. In it, Haidt very clearly lays out the research that supports the view that human beings have been endowed by evolution with 6 moral intuitions, or foundations. The moral intuitions are innate, which Haidt clearly explains does not mean fixed and immutable, but, rather, arranged in advance of experience. We don't all have a fixed set of moral intuitions, but there is a limited palate from which experience may paint the picture of how we perceive the world.
The most important part of Haidt's research and the argument of this book is that liberal and conservatives share these moral intuitions but tend to emphasize them very differently, and it is the different emphases that cause the divisions among us. In brief, liberals tend to assign moral weight to issues of justice (is it fair - does everyone have an equal chance) and harm/care (does it cause harm to another - bad; or does it help another - good). Conservatives share these intuitions, but their take on justice is different. For a conservative, justice is determined by proportionality. Each according to his/ her contribution, not his/ her need. In addition, everyone, but conservatives to a much greater extent than liberals, also feel that questions of loyalty (to one's group/family/country), authority (obedience), and purity/ sanctity (as in not mixing this with that) are moral issues. A sixth intuition concerns liberty. Here again, however, liberals and conservatives differ in how they think about liberty. Liberals wish to be free of constraints applied by other members of the group, while conservatives think of liberty as freedom from government.
As a framework for parsing arguments between liberals and conservatives, I think this is extraordinarily helpful. What Haidt and colleagues argue is that when we disagree with our ideological counterparts, the disagreements arise from differences in the weight we apply to these moral intuitions. For liberals, there really are just two primary moral issues, fairness and harm/care, while conservatives also value authority, loyalty, purity and liberty to a great extent.
Importantly, Haidt argues that each of the moral intuitions has been vital to the evolution of human culture. While those among us who are liberals care more about justice and care, without the other intuitions, we would never have achieved the groupishness and hence the culture that separates humans from other animals. It is primarily the conservative intuitions that have been responsible for providing the glue that held groups together over our evolutionary history, and it is as groups that human beings have generated a culture that has distanced us from our primitive ape cousins.
Not much to take issue with there.
Ultimately, however, Haidt explains that his study of morality produced in him a sort of conversion from liberal to moderately conservative, having discovered the value of groupish moral intuitions. He also cites research showing that conservatives are better able to take the view of a liberal into account that vice versa, and invites liberals to try to broaden their view to include these other intuitions. His suggestion in this book and elsewhere is that more conservative voices should be added to the intellectual debate over the role of moral intuitions in society.
So here's my problem with that. 1) I am liberal and have a hard time, as he says, understanding how the groupish intuitions might continue to retain their value as moral intuitions in the modern world. It seems to me that many of our greatest problems today have to do with the oversized role of these moral intuitions in buttressing parochial concerns (issues of importance to my group only), leading to inter-group conflict.
2) I am a member of a group (gays) that has been and still is legally disenfranchised in this country, and that disenfranchisement is largely justified by referral to the moral intuition purity. I can't marry my partner, because too many people in this country believe that to allow me to do so would somehow violate the purity/sanctity of heterosexual marriage. So, I can't get behind it. Of course, that is my parochial concern, but I can point to similar concerns that would affect nearly everyone. Purity/Sanctity, in my view, is a moral intuition that has outlived its useful life.
3) Too much of Haidt's argument has the flavor of a naturalistic fallacy. One is committing the naturalistic fallacy when one deems something to be good on the basis of it being natural. Another way it is expressed is when a person assumes that something ought or should be a certain way solely on the basis that it is that way in nature. Haidt's argument is more subtle than saying that because people are endowed with six moral intuitions, therefore all six ought to be valued equally. But, for may taste, his argument still relies mostly on the argument that because these six moral foundations were all critical for the development of what we consider to be civilized society, that they are all to be consulted in policy- and decision-making now. Much of our civilization consists of norms and rules for curbing natural instincts. The instincts that continually reify parochial groupishness, ie, the conservative moral intuitions, are among the natural instincts that I believe must be curbed. An alternative take is that the moral foundations are fine as is, but the groups to which they are applied must be continually enlarged to include everyone, and then perhaps everything. Clearly, this circle-enlarging has been occurring and will likely continue. That's great. But, shouldn't we also work to limit the sway of the intuitions that, while historically vital, are presently harmful or at best of dubious value for large swathes (i.e., anyone not in the majority) of our society today?
Kel S
Hopefully the start of a more productive dialogue
The thing that saddens me when I read books on moral psychology is that it makes it clear that we as a species have come to a good understanding about how it is we think, yet that understanding doesn't filter down to the individual level. Like Michael Shermer's The Believing Brain, or Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson's Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me), this book has within it much that could help keep in check the more extravagant of cognitive pitfalls, yet how does it make that tricky journey from the psychology journals and out into the public? This book, as good as any other on the topic I have read, has me hoping it will be able to make a little headway.
Since I'm not a psychologist, I can't comment on the quality of the research, except to say that I found the presentation of the ideas was clear and very illustrative. Haidt's writing style is very accessible, and whether or not you agree with him by the end, anyone who carefully listens should at least appreciate where he was coming from. By the end, there's perhaps a means to appreciate where other people are coming from.
One major problem was that in his efforts to give a descriptive moral psychology, he ignored the prescriptive aspect. The question of whether or not people see morality a particular way doesn't make that way warranted. Of course Jonathan Haidt knows this, but neglects to mention this until near the end of the penultimate chapter, and even then does little more than shrug at the prospect. That's fair enough as he's not a moral philosopher, but for several chapters preceding that brief mention he focused on trying to understand morality from a neurological perspective - even going so far as to ridicule those current prescriptive theories as being inadequate and possibly the result of Aspergers' syndrome. As the reader this was quite jarring, as he was seeming to make the same mistake Sam Harris did in The Moral Landscape by descending into neurobabble.
For example, much is made of Western Educated Industrial Rich and Democratic (WEIRD) phenomenon of moral psychology where the educated products of enlightenment thinking see the role of moral thought in a very different way from all other societies (and even the poor in their own society). While he makes an interesting case for why moral psychology as a discipline has misfired by focusing on the WEIRD, be doesn't address the inverse case - why some of us are WEIRD? After all, being weird is the anomaly.
If you keep in mind that his account of morality is descriptive rather than normative, then the book reads much better. It's a good account of how to think about how other people think on moral issues, and that is a vital part of having an understanding of where other people are coming from. For that, the book is good. And as far as the presentation goes, Haidt's willingness to describe the diagrams was useful, and him breaking out in song was an unexpected joy.
Bridging the liberal / conservative chasm
Would you consider the audio edition of The Righteous Mind to be better than the print version?
Most "readers" will appreciate the superb delivery of the audio version. Those of us (myself included) who discover that his worldview and ideas reshape our own will either want to listen to the audio twice or also purchase the print version -- to enable note taking and marking up of the most important pages.
What did you like best about this story?
Because the ideas are so unsettling for social and political liberals (like myself!), the author's tone and personal story vignettes are absolutely vital to keep me from becoming defensive (and thus no longer really listening). Yet, by the time he concludes, I feel fully affirmed -- as the need today is not for liberals to go conservative, but for liberals to become morally fuller by maintaining our existing commitments while opening to searching for solutions that are no longer win-lose but win-win. In fact, I recall watching online a spring 2012 interview that Bill Moyers conducted with the author, and Bill's curiosity and open delight in this larger worldview are a treasure to watch. Morality becomes all encompassing.
What about Jonathan Haidt's performance did you like?
The author is the audio narrator -- and he is superb! Personal stories he tells are especially powerful this way, and his best stories are those that reveal the pivotal experiences in his own life that led him from social/political liberal to a wider embrace of the full spectrum of moral and ethical appreciation.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
It is way too long to listen to in one setting -- but very compelling to use as bedtime listening on consecutive nights or for a very long road trip.
I learn so much these days online via short videos, newsclips, blogs, op-ed pieces, etc. that I tend to become stingy about my time reading a traditional book. Books are often not time-efficient enough for me anymore. But The Righteous Mind exemplifies deep respect for the reader/listener's time via its organization, writing, storytelling, and editing. It actually restores my faith in learning via books. As I reflect on my experience, I see that what took the author a lifetime to achieve in worldview expansion, I actually got in a week of evening listening.
It's like taking the red pill :)
I wonder if political polarization would go down across societies if everyone had a chance to listen to this book?
I wished I had taken the survey on yourmorals dot org before reading/listening to The Righteous Mind.
Anyway looking forward to Jonathan Haidt's coming book on capitalism.
I would recommend listening to The Happiness Hypothesis prior to The Righteous Mind.
Once you've taken the red pill, it's never going to be the same :)
Good luck to you
Jim Vaughan
Brilliant! Well researched, accessible, convincing
This is a highly intelligent, yet accessible book, beautifully read by the author himself.
If like me you are puzzled by the stupidity of other people's beliefs and values, then I urge you to read "The Righteous Mind". At its core is a message of reconciliation; an enlightened liberation from the "Filter Bubble" of our own confirmation biases to see ourselves & those we most profoundly disagree with as belonging on the same continuum.
Haidt's thesis is controversial :- that Western liberals (e.g. him & me) are "WIERD" outliers, using just three moral foundations of harm, freedom, and fairness, when for conservative & non Western cultures, morality includes a far broader spectrum of sensibilities, including hierarchy, loyalty and sacredness.
Our own values feel like 'The Truth' and the more moral we are, the more self-righteous in imposing our own moral framework. Moreover, we are all moral hypocrites, acting to maximise our good reputation, with our moral rationalisations serving as press officer to our emotional prejudices.
Haidt cites a ton of research (including his own), underpinned by psychology, anthropology, neuroscience & evolutionary theory: the latter an elegant mix of Selfish Gene, Multi-Level selection and Dual Inheritance Theory, summed up in the sound-byte that we are 90% chimp and 10% hive mentality.
Yet it was in his uncritical advocacy for the "Durkheimian Hive Switch" that I started to dissent. Anyone who knows the film "The Wave", the deindividuation of rioting crowds, Milgram's Experiment, or phenomena such as scape-goating or "corporate groupthink" will be wary of the dangers of the "Hive Switch", and the potential madness of crowds. The Enlightenment was about liberation from our hive mentality and the benefits of Mill's style individualism and secularism.
However, that said, I consider Haidt a hero, and I hope this excellent book will help heal the animosity between good people who differ only in the hyper-goods they value.
One of the most influential books I've ever read
This book is purely incredible. I think I'll listen to it or read it once every year. Truly eye opening, and the narration of the author just elevates the experience of understanding these relations further. I absolutely recommend it to anyone who is just barely puzzled by what is happening currently around us.
Damien H
understand people who don't agree with you
Jonathan Haidt had given my new perspective on views that I disagree with and people who I don't understand.
This book has opened my mind and served up a big slice of humble pie to my self righteous ideas.
I now look forward to learning more about people I have disagreed with!
An Awful Book Based On Flawed and Biased Research
I will give just one example to show how Haidt uses flawed and biased research to attempt to manipulate the reader to buy into his rather transparent agenda.
Haidt claims that libertarians give the "care/harm" foundation very little weight.
He tries to show that libertarians care mostly about the liberty foundation (true) and that this comes at the expense of the care foundation (false).
His basis for this theory is his own flawed research, based on loaded questions intended to get the results he is looking for.
For example, one of the questions from his website that he bases this idea on is the following:
"Do you agree that the government should do more to advance the common good, even if that means limiting the freedom and choices of individuals"?
He uses these type of biased and loaded questions to evaluate how important the "care foundation", one of the six pillars of his "moral matrix", is to the respondents.
It's well understood that libertarians (and conservatives) are far more caring about other people than liberal progressives are. This can be seen in who donates the most to charities and in most other aspect of life.
However, for libertarians caring means that you have to make a genuine effort to actually help people, rather than just virtue signal how much you care. Results are what matters when you claim that you want to help someone.
Of course libertarians believe the welfare state harms the liberty foundation, but we also know that it harms those it's intended to help.
The reason libertarians and other conservatives want to reform welfare and entitlement programs is not some selfish agenda, but because we care about the recipients, and everyone else.
Social Security for example doesn't just mean the government stealing your money and deciding what to do with it for you. It also makes you poorer than you would have been if you had invested that money yourself.
Government programs intended "to help" have the worst track record of all care efforts. Yet Haidt uses the government as "the vehicle" for the caring effort in his questions, in order to get the results that he wants. He fears libertarians and therefore want to make it look like they value the care foundation less than liberals and progressives do.
To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the intellectual leftists like Haidt, whose imaginary vision casts him in the role of "rescuer" of people treated unfairly by "society".
As Thomas Sowell so aptly puts it:
"Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are seen among leftist intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God."
It's common among liberals and progressives to believe that unless you favour their particular solution you don't really care about the people that they claim they want to help.
Haidt however knows better than that, but he has an agenda, and therefore he uses the same illogical arguments, backed by his own flawed research to try prove the point.
Ever expansive centralized government programs not only harm far more people than they help in an economic and creative sense, they also result in a world that is less caring and less fair for everyone.
People like Haidt don't want independent people voluntarily working together, (the "hive switch" in his book) when it makes sense for them to do so.
No, what they want (and need) to further their agenda are "dependents".
The big word on the left is "compassion" but their big agenda is all about "dependency".
The more people who are dependent on government hand-outs, the more people there are to support their ever expanding welfare state, and the more control they have over "their people".
Haidt is part of the dangerous global "elite" who are pushing for a centralized one-world government with total control over the people, and an eventual elimination of all private property rights.
He is a truly self-righteous author and researcher who would fit in perfectly with the extremists at the Tavistock Institute.
Be afraid, and start to speak up against these people and their nightmare vision and totalitarian agenda, before it's too late.
If you listen carefully, Haidt is rather transparent in manipulation attempts, and if you decide to buy this book you will see this as clear as day.
AGGELOS IOAKIMIDES
It's positives and negative's
On the positive side, it is well researched, insights books studies and experiments which are delightful, it is very well performed in the first half of the book I would almost coharacterise as invaluable. The last part I could do without so on the negative side, it oversimplifies things that should not be simplified in order to make a choice. Still, it has its merits towards trying to sympathise with the conservative side.
Excellent analysis and research based approach
I'm a big fan of Haidt, he's very open to divergent views and has an excellent approach to teasing out data and spinning convincing, possibly even true, narratives. He should be one of the leading voices on the left debunking radical critical intersectional social justice types. If you can't learn from this approach, you're likely to be unreachable.
Highly recommended for anyone interested in religion, culture, anthropology, the debate around Darwinian group selection, psychology, comparative sociology, millennial internet culture, social justice etc.
Very relevant at the moment
A brilliant book that takes you on a journey through moral psychology and the formation of the human mind. It touches on very relevant points about understanding eachother and how no matter what our values are, we Are all connected and all act in the same way - though many will refuse to believe this.
I would highly recommend to anyone who is struggling to understand why everyone is so angry at the moment and why it seems like understand the other point of view appears to be a dying and forbidden trait.
Dimitrios Staikos
Life changing, belief shaking, once in a decade!
This is the most valuable book I've read in a long time. It is the kind of book that one needs to study rather than read once. The realisations that it brings about human nature are profound. I now look afresh at the world around me and it makes much more sense than before.
The author has earned my highest appreciation!
Really important book. title can be misleading
title almost triggered my elephant to move away because I felt it might be an attack on religion and politics in general. but its not, furthest thing from it. it explains why we struggle to communicate with people from different backgrounds and how confirmation bias hinders us from having positive conversation across different groups
Bernadette Hyland
Must Read for All Who Hope to Advance US & Global Politics
This book was recommended to me by my 19 year son who is a neuroscience & philosophy
major at a Virginia university. He said "it should be required reading for all Americans, read it." I'm a new PhD student in political science & international studies, this the timing was perfect. I learned a tremendous amount about unconscious assumptions I held, and recent historical developments during my lifetime. The insights, analysis and recommendations Professor Haidt makes in The Righteous Mind are likely to have a lasting impact on our collective political and moral lives.
Clearly and beautifully conceived and written, I can't wait to read the book format and delve into the bibliography after listening to the audio book. I've already recommended this book to several scholars and friends. It is good therapy if you're watching and engaged with the US political landscape in any capacity. Many thanks to Jonathan Haidt for an outstanding contribution to the field of moral psychology, and for knitting together neuroscience, anthropology, and political sociology -- well done!
everyone needs to listen to this book
I'm convinced that the way forward lies in the ideas and attitudes raised in this book. the left and right are becoming more and more hostile and distant from one another and no good could possibly come from it. within this book are some very important insights that may help is all be a little more open to discussion and compromise
Interesting albeit simplified
Always like it when the author narrates his/her own book. Haidt offers an insightful breakdown into the irrationality of our collective political and moral conscientiousness.
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Well argued interesting thesis
Whilst I don't share his evolutionary worldview, his thesis explains a lot about politics today
Modern Moral Psychology at its Finest
I am really surprised at how much this book comes up in conversations now a days. Understanding how people make decisions has made understanding other people a lot easier, and i thoroughly recommend it to everyone. Johnathan Haidt, while not the worst narrator in the world, is also not the best. He will just have to settle with being one of the best minds of the age, but only an average narrator.
highly recommended. great review and integration of philosophy, evolution, psychology. incredibly relevant. great reading too. Jonathan feels like a friend!
Incredible!
Haidt gives an amazing insight into the human mind. It's challenging and thought provoking, a message our societies need right now.
The Best Book I've read/listened to in years!
For anyone who's ever wondered how to fix what seems like such an irreparably divided and polarised world, this is a must read.


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Grand jury to get case of woman charged in Sodus double homicide
Charlene Childers, 25, is charged in connection with the double homicide of her children's father and his girlfriend.
Grand jury to get case of woman charged in Sodus double homicide Charlene Childers, 25, is charged in connection with the double homicide of her children's father and his girlfriend. Check out this story on DemocratandChronicle.com: https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/local/communities/2018/11/08/sodus-ny-murder-charlene-childers-court-timothy-dean-bron-bohlar-josh-niles-amber-washburn/1928171002/
Meghan Finnerty and Georgie Silvarole, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle Published 11:14 a.m. ET Nov. 8, 2018 | Updated 5:14 p.m. ET Nov. 8, 2018
Charlene Childers arrives for a preliminary hearing at Sodus Town Court. The hearing was cancelled with the case being waived to the Wayne County grand jury. Childers, 25, is charged with second-degree conspiracy and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon in connection to the double homicide of Joshua Niles, 28, and Amber Washburn, 24.(Photo: Tina MacIntyre-Yee/Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)Buy Photo
A Wayne County grand jury will hear the case against Charlene Childers, who is accused of playing a role in the deaths of two Sodus residents last month.
Joshua Niles, 28, and Amber Washburn, 24, were fatally shot outside their home in the village of Sodus on Oct. 22.
On Monday, the Wayne County Sheriff's Office announced the arrests of Childers, 25, and her husband, Timothy Dean, 32. Childers, who is the mother of Niles' two oldest children, has been charged with second-degree conspiracy and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, both felonies.
A preliminary hearing was scheduled in Sodus Town Court on Wednesday morning, but a Wayne County grand jury has heard evidence and voted an indictment to refer the case to grand jury, said Christine Callanan, Wayne County second assistant district attorney.
Childers' case will be heard by a county or state Supreme Court judge in Wayne County at a later date that has not yet been decided, Callanan said.
Childers arrived at Town Court dressed in a navy jumpsuit just before 10 a.m., and sat in the courtroom for almost an hour before her attorney, Tyson Blue, arrived. While she waited, she sat still and silently showing little emotion.
Childers' bail remains at $100,000 cash or $200,000 bond, Putnam said in court.
On Wednesday, authorities announced a third arrest in the case and charged Bron Bohlar, 34, with second-degree conspiracy, a felony.
Dean has been charged with one count each of first-degree murder and second-degree conspiracy and two counts each of second-degree murder and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon. All are felonies.
He and Bohlar were both arrested in Moore County, Texas. Callanan said they will be transported to Wayne County in the next 90 days.
"It's still an ongoing investigation, as you can tell, with more defendants and charges coming," Callanan said. "What (Childers has) been charged with thus far doesn't mean that those are the only charges she would face."
9mm weapon
The Wayne County Sheriff's Office alleges in a criminal complaint that Childers was in possession of a 9mm pistol at 215 Walker St. in Palmyra on Oct. 23, a day after the shooting. Wayne County Sheriff Barry Virts said a 9mm weapon was used to kill Niles and Washburn.
Bohlar is accused of conspiring \with Dean and Childers to commit murder several days before the shooting happened, according to a criminal complaint from the Wayne County Sheriff's Department.
"Bron C. Bohlar did talk to Timothy P. Dean and Charlene Childers about killing Joshua E. Niles while in the garage at Dean's residence," the complaint alleges. "Bron C. Bohlar helped Timothy Dean rent a vehicle for him to drive to New York to kill Joshua E. Niles."
The complaint also alleges Bohlar put the rental vehicle in his own name, and that when Dean had an accident in the vehicle in Kansas, he rented a new one and continued driving to Sodus.
Timothy Dean (Photo: AP)
"Dean rented a car in Kansas and drove that car to Sodus, New York and shot and killed Joshua E. Niles on 10/22/18 at 2:07pm," the complaint alleges.
The information in the complaint comes, in part, from statements taken from both Childers and Bohlar, the complaint says.
"It's our belief that Dean pulled the trigger," Wayne County Sheriff Barry Virts said at a press conference in Lyons Monday night.
Dean is the former police chief of a three-person department in the Texas Panhandle city of Sunray, which has less than 2,000 residents, according to 2010 census data.
He was arrested in May on one charge of injury to a child, a third-degree felony, after that state's Child Protective Services contacted Texas Rangers requesting an investigation. Dean resigned a month later. Bohlar is also a Sunray police officer.
Bron Bohlar (Photo: AP)
Dean was arrested on Oct. 29 in Texas on charges stemming from that initial arrest in May. Childers was also arrested on Oct. 29 in Wayne County on a warrant out of Texas that alleged third-degree felony injury to a child. When the charges were announced Monday night, both were already in police custody in Wayne County and Moore County, Texas, respectively.
Friends and relatives said Niles had recently won custody of his and Childers' 9-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son, who are students in the Sodus Central School District. Washburn and Niles also have a 4-year-old son who was in the car when the shooting occurred.
Investigators are still trying to learn details of Childers' and Dean's travels before the shooting, but police have said they believe Childers was in Texas when it occurred, despite her attendance at a vigil for the victims held in Sodus two days after the slayings.
"We have no indication that she was in our jurisdiction on the date of the shooting," Wayne County District Attorney Michael Caralco said.
Sodus double homicide: Three charged in killing of Niles, Washburn
According to court documents Charlene Childers allegedly was involved in the planning of the shooting. Tina MacIntyre-Yee/Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Charlene Childers arrives for a preliminary hearing at Sodus Town Court. The hearing was cancelled with the case being waived to the Wayne County grand jury. Childers, 25, is charged with second-degree conspiracy and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon in connection to the double homicide of Joshua Niles, 28, and Amber Washburn, 24. Tina MacIntyre-Yee/Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Charlene Childers was in New York when she was arrested. Tina MacIntyre-Yee/Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Charlene Childers was found in possession of a gun that was similar to the one used in the fatal shooting of Joshua Niles and Amber Washburn. Tina MacIntyre-Yee/Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Charlene Childers was arrested in Palmyra in October. Tina MacIntyre-Yee/Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Amber Washburn, 24, and Joshua Niles, 28, were killed Oct. 22 in Sodus and leave behind three young children. Provided photo
Charlene R. Childers, 25, is charged with second-degree conspiracy and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon in connection to the double homicide. Provided
Timothy Dean, the former police chief of a three-person department in the Texas Panhandle city of Sunray, is charged with first- and second-degree murder and conspiracy in the slayings. AP
Bron Bohlar, an officer in Sunray, Texas, is charged with conspiracy in connection with the Sodus double homicide. AP
Joshua Niles and Amber Washburn were killed outside their home Oct. 22, 2018. Flowers were left outside their home several days later. Tina MacIntyre-Yee/Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Numerous police agencies involved in Sodus search. Tina MacIntyre-Yee
Access to the streets that run behind Carlton in Sodus are blocked Tuesday morning. Tina MacIntyre-Yee/Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
A police helicopter flies overhead near Carlton Street in Sodus. Tina MacIntyre-Yee/Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
About 100 people formed a circle within the First United Presbyterian Church of Sodus during a candlelight vigil and remembrance service on Sunday, Nov. 4, 2018. The service honored the six lives lost in a string of violent deaths in Sodus during the last year. Georgie Silvarole/Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
The backyard of 29 Carlton St. The house was still surrounded by police tape on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018. Tina MacIntyre-Yee/Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Anthony Mancine came home and heard and saw the shooting that killed his two neighbors in Sodus. Tina MacIntyre-Yee/Rocheser Democrat and Chronicle
A New York State Police helicopter searches the area near the shooting for the suspect Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018. Tina MacIntyre-Yee/Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Two people were shot and killed Monday outside their home on Carlton St. Tina MacIntyre-Yee/Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Wayne County Sheriff's investigators and deputies talk outside 29 Carlton St. Tina MacIntyre-Yee/Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Police agencies block off different streets in Sodus. Hill Road was one of the roads blocked. Tina MacIntyre-Yee/Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Police agencies line Allen Street as the search for the shooting suspect continues in Sodus. Tina MacIntyre-Yee/Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Bible Baptist Church was the command center for the police during the search. Tina MacIntyre-Yee/Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Wayne County Sheriff's Office with the assistance of other police agencies search for yesterday's shooter. Deputies meet and confer at Newark St. at Rt. 88. Tina MacIntyre-Yee/Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Several agencies help in the search for the shooter in the Sodus double homicide. Tina MacIntyre-Yee/Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
A helicopter hovers while police investigate a double homicide in Sodus. Shawn Dowd/Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Police tape surrounds 29 Carlton St. in Sodus. Tina MacIntyre-Yee/Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
A Wayne County Sheriff's vehicle sits outside 29 Carlton St. in Sodus, where Josh Niles and Amber Washburn were killed by Timothy Dean. Tina MacIntyre-Yee/Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Police block off Carlton Street in Sodus while investigating a double homicide. Shawn Dowd/Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Newark Street is closed in Sodus Tuesday. It runs behind Carlton Street. Tina MacIntyre-Yee/Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Police block streets while investigating a double homicide in Sodus. Shawn Dowd/Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
School buses being released in Sodus. All afternoon and evening activities were canceled by the Sodus Central School District. Shawn Dowd/Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Police continue to investigate the shooting scene in Sodus on Monday. Shawn Dowd/Rochester Democrat and Chroniclr
More: Third arrest made in Sodus double homicide, another Texas police officer
More: Timothy Dean, Charlene Childers facing charges in Sodus slayings
More: Twist in Sodus homicides: Mom of 2 of slain father's kids jailed in Wayne County
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Includes reporting by The Associated Press.
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How Brad Little Won The Idaho Republican Primary
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It's been a week since Lieutenant Governor Brad Little's big win in the Idaho Republican Gubernatorial Primary. Despite most folks predicting another winner, here's a look at how he pulled off the big win.
The Little Campaign covered every aspect of what it takes to win. An unbeaten run for office usually means that every source of votes is measured and targeted. We saw the outcome of a well-orchestrated effort to win Idahoan's vote.
So how did Brad Little win a primary that some thought would go to a businessman outsider or a grassroots congressman? Little began by playing to his strength, which is the agriculture community in the state. Every farmer and rancher knows who Brad Little is. He solidified his base by reinforcing his roots. We say this strategy, to a degree, is what helped Butch Otter in 2014. Governor Otter worked the rural communities, and his efforts paid off with the win.
Although the Ag and Ranching communities are influential, they alone couldn't guarantee a win. The lieutenant governor was first to be on the radio with paid media. Unlike the others in the race, Brad Little had every opportunity for earned media exposure. In other words, interviews with media outlets big and small throughout the state. The more time in front of the camera, the more it helps a candidate's name identification.
There have been several days when Governor Otter was out of state. When that happens, the lieutenant governor is the acting governor. The Little organization took advantage of every opportunity given to them by the absence of Governor Otter. The lieutenant governor filled in for the governor several times during the past two years. His appearances continued to raise his profile among voters.
There's a famous saying in politics, 'campaigns are won and lost in the last few weeks.' The last two weeks are a textbook example of how to win a campaign. The last weeks are when the crucial undecided voters make their pick. It's where elections are won and lost. Here's how Brad Little won the primary.
Polling in Idaho is like the wild, wild, West. In other words, you never know what the results are going to be from the pollsters. The Little Campaign must have figured out that Raul Labrador was the man to beat. The lieutenant governor's comparative or negative ads specifically targeted the congressman.
Throughout the campaign, Little's ads smacked both candidates. Now with the focus on Labrador, three outcomes were defined.
Congressman Labrador holds his lead and wins the primary. Dr. Ahlquist, without the firepower directed at him, rebounds and wins. Or, which is what happened, Brad Little wins the nomination.
The Little Campaign released a hard-hitting ad questioning the commitment of Congressman Labrador's support for President Trump. We all know that the congressman campaigned for the president. However passive politicos were unsure, and the spot was useful.
However, the spot alone didn't win the election. It was a combination of what media insiders call frequency. The Little Campaign was well funded and already an aggressive commercial schedule. Combine their efforts with the ads from their allies and the dye was cast. There was not enough time or ad space for the Labrador folks to respond before last Tuesday Night.
Their response, a phone call from David Bossie, was ineffective and confusing. The sound quality was, and folks in Idaho don't know who David Bossie is. They would've been better off airing the congressman appealing to the voters.
The Little Strategy reminds me of George Bush doing the same thing to Bob Dole in 1988. Dole was ahead and looked like the winner of the New Hampshire Presidential Primary. Bush hit Dole with a last-second TV ad, and it was game over.
Brad Little now moves on to the general election and inevitable victory.
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As reported earlier today, Corrupt Hillary Clinton is not accepting her defeat in the recent Presidential election and instead, in ways only the Corrupt Criminal Clinton's could conjure up, has put in place a process to steal the election.
The source claims that the beginning of this corrupt plan to steal the election from President Trump began earlier in the week when a group of "scientists" claimed that the election results were hacked and suggested recounts in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Overturning these three states would give Clinton the election. Despite nearly the entire nation voting for Trump by county, except in major cities, these scientists claim potential voter issues. Even shamed pollster Nate Silver stated these allegations were wrong and that Michigan did mostly paper voting so computer tampering would not appear there.
Next the mainstream media reports that Russia may be behind the hacking. Again, highly suspect but part of the Clinton theft plan.
Then rather than pious Hillary step in to claim recounts in these three Midwestern states, Jill Stein, who ran for President under the Green Party and received less than 1.4 million votes country-wide starts a petition to pay for recounts in just these three states.
Stein started her fundraising online with a goal of $2.5 million on November 24th. Overnight on the hour, her fund received $160,000 every hour. These were not random people donating at 3am to her campaign but rather some "bot" that increased her account by this amount on the hour. Now Stein has raised more than $4.5 million and has filed for a recount in Wisconsin where she won 30,942 votes to Trump's winning 1,411,432 votes.
The plan is in action to steal the election for Hillary. Stein gets rich and maybe an appointment. Hillary keeps the Clinton Foundation alive – And to hell with America.


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