Ranked: Why Do People Think Differently?

This is a subjective Ranked version of Intriguing Connections: Why Do People Think Differently?


An Ethical Account

  1. A Philosophy of Evil by Lars Svendsen
  2. Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  3. Blind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It by Max H. Bazerman, Ann E. Tenbrunsel

Different Backgrounds

  1. How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
  2. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
  3. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer
  4. Transformative Experience by L. A. Paul
  5. Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir
  6. Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin To Munger by Peter Bevelin
  7. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez
  8. War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
  9. The Heroine With 1,001 Faces by Maria Tatar
  10. A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell
  11. Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them by Joshua D. Greene
  12. The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World by Charles C. Mann
  13. Inventing the Enemy by Umberto Eco
  14. The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap by Gish Jen
  15. How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us about Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan
  16. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson

Different Wants
  1. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss
  2. Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana
  3. A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell
  4. [Upcoming] An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi
  5. The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Jonathan Rauch
  6. The Second Stage by Betty Friedan
  7. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall
  8. Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds by Jim Sterba
  9. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
  10. Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell
  11. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
  12. Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier
  13. The Sovereignty Wars: Reconciling America with the World by Stewart Patrick
  14. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
  15. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
  16. Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming by McKenzie Funk
  17. Science Fictions: The Epidemic of Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science by Stuart Ritchie
  18. 1789: The Threshold of the Modern Age by David Andress

Divergent Thinking
  1. Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant
  2. In Defense of Troublemakers: The Power of Dissent in Life and Business by Charlan Jeanne Nemeth
  3. Why Societies Need Dissent by Cass R. Sunstein
  4. Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us by Brian Klaas
  5. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine
  6. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
  7. Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie
  8. Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization by Neil deGrasse Tyson
  9. From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew
  10. Think Like a Freak by Steven D. Levitt, and Stephen J. Dubner
  11. Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science by Peter Godfrey-Smith
  12. Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
  13. Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin

Divergent Thinking / Fiction

The Influence of Culture

  1. The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter by Joseph Henrich
  2. Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: Tight and Loose Cultures and the Secret Signals that Direct Our Lives by Michele Gelfand
  3. The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it by Will Storr
  4. The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America by Verlan Lewis, Hyrum Lewis
  5. Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter
  6. Race And Culture: A World View by Thomas Sowell
  7. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
  8. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
  9. The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
  10. Japanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations by Roger J. Davies
  11. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters by Brian Klaas
  12. The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis
  13. Trans: Gender Identity and the New Battle for Women's Rights by Helen Joyce
  14. When Women Ruled The World by Maureen Quilligan
  15. Hybrid Warfare: The Russian Approach to Strategic Competition & Conventional Military Conflict by Curtis L. Fox
  16. Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else by Chrystia Freeland
  17. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault
  18. Japan Unbound: A Volatile Nation's Quest for Pride and Purpose by John Nathan
  19. World Cultures: Analyzing Pre-Industrial Societies In Africa, Asia, Europe, And the Americas by James T. Shea
  20. The Republic Of Plato by Plato, and Allan Bloom

The Influence of Culture / Fiction 
  1. Berlin by Jason Lutes


Learning Different Ways to Think
  1. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  2. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
  3. How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine ... for Now by Stanislas Dehaene
  4. [Upcoming] Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness by Steve Magness
  5. Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker
  6. Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
  7. The Possibility Principle: How Quantum Physics Can Improve the Way You Think, Live, and Love by Mel Schwartz
  8. Buddha by Karen Armstrong
  9. The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers by Eric Weiner
  10. Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth
  11. Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It by Ian Leslie
  12. The Secret Formula of Strategic Thinkers: Winning Steps for Sustained Success by Cory Smith

Learning Different Ways to Think / Fiction
  • [Upcoming] The Schopenhauer Cure: A Novel by Irvin Yalom



How It Is Known That People Think Differently
  1. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip E. Tetlock, and Dan Gardner
  2. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein
  3. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

Fiction / Brains Infrastructure
  1. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
  2. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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