So the book is peppered with a lot of sometimes tangental but always very interesting information starting from life of the Gobi fish and finishing with the nostalgia experienced by Frederic Chopin.Īt the core of the book is a theory that our actions are driven by 10 types of our behaviour. He is extremely curious and erudite individual. On another hand, he presents findings from the labs in experimental psychology investigating the human nature. Also, he investigates such dilemmas like the right to die. The individual stories are all related to so-called human rights violations form child slavery and using child soldiers in war zones to human trafficking and female genital mutilations. The book is a combination of individual stories and his findings including the proposed psychologic theory. So much he wanted to be able to answer this question that he went to Harvard to study moral cognition (new science combining neuroscience, experimental and evolutionary psychology). This hefty tome is the result of his quest to understand the human nature. His mother could not comprehend how it could happen. The boy was the youngest person died in such a way then. Once he was representing the mother of 14 year old teenager who died in custody while being retrained by 3 officers.
It is a book to inspire to refashion our understanding of our many selves and semblances and ultimately to find fresh ways to be free.ĭexter Diaz is a prominent human rights lawyer in the UK. Mixing cutting-edge neuroscience, social psychology and visceral true stories, The Ten Types of Human is at once a provocation and a roadmap of the hidden parts of us. It begins in a courtroom and journeys across four continents and through the lives of some exceptional people, in search of answers. It explores the frontiers of the human experience, excavating the forces that shape our thoughts and actions in extreme situations. It looks at the best and worst that human beings are capable of, and asks why. The Ten Types of Human is a pioneering examination of human nature. But who or what are these Types? Where do they come from? How did they get into our heads? The answer lies with the Ten Types of Human: the people we become when we are faced with life's most difficult decisions. But how can we be sure? What are our limits? Do we have limits? We want to believe that there are others we always would. We want to believe that there are some things we would never do.
Who are they? What are they for? How did they get into your head? But you’re almost certainly unaware of their intervention. They inform and shape the most important decisions in your life. This book will introduce you to ten people.
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