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This Is Your Mind On Plants examines how the effects of three conscious-altering drugs that humans have used for thousands of years—opium, caffeine, and mescaline—have shaped our bodies, culture, and history. It demonstrates that, beyond debating their legalities, we must comprehend their potential to help us connect with nature and ourselves in new ways. One […]

The How of Happiness outlines a scientific method for increasing happiness by giving you a quick quiz to discover your “happiness set point,” then providing you with a number of tools and strategies to assist you control the significant portion of happiness that is entirely within your control. The How of Happiness gives a summary

Dopamine Nation teaches us how to prevent becoming addicted to dopamine by limiting our access to all the pleasure and stimulus we are surrounded by on a daily basis, such as drugs, technology, pornography, and gambling establishments. We are living in a world of luxury as compared to our predecessors. On the plus side, having

In the utopian society depicted in Brave New World, which is flawlessly built around commerce and scientific efficiency, everyone appears to be pleased, cheerful, and conforming—but only at first. During a tour of the “Hatchery and Conditioning Centre” in London in the year 2540 AD, World Controller Mustapha Mond tells a group of kids, “You

In the novel The Midnight Library, Nora, a despondent woman in her 30s, finds herself in a library full of possible lives on the day she plans to end her life. There, she learns there is much more to life—even her current one—than she had ever imagined. What if you could experience every possible life

Just Keep Buying acknowledges that your wants and interests will vary throughout your life and that, as a result, your financial behavior will have to adapt as well. It does this by using creative stories and intriguing data to help you answer the major questions about saving and investing money. Todd Rose details one of

Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? is a compilation of a clinical psychologist’s most effective suggestions for overcoming anxiety and depression and enhancing our mental health gradually, drawn from more than ten years of one-on-one work with patients. Do you ever experience sudden anxiety? I do. I make a lot of to-do lists to

The Power of Regret offers a deep dive into a feeling we all experience, explaining in three chapters why regret makes us more human, not less, what the four universal regrets are, and how we may embrace our mistakes and use them to create better futures rather than storing them as ghosts in our closets.