Welcome to Litsy!

My book subscription revealed! As a spider hater I‘m not loving the cover - but I do love Kate Summerscale so maybe I‘ll wrap in brown paper before I start reading! 🤣🤣🤣

For @sebrittainclark I‘d love to get to know you a bit as well, since we are #AuldLangSpine matches!

I was so excited to receive your list today!

My reading life is by audio in my car and at work and mainly physical books at home. I have a kindle but I don‘t use it very much.

I‘m in 2 bookclubs, both local but virtual since Covid. One is traditional, the other is topic based, so we all read different books that we feel fit a chosen topic. Fun!

"Often our beliefs are post hoc constructions designed to justify what we've done, or to support the groups we belong to."

#nonfiction #religion

Ways to improve your team.
1. Increase similarity, not diversity.
2. Exploit synchrony.
3. Create healthy competition among teams, not individuals.

"The 1st step's to stop thinking so much about leadership....leadership can only be understood as the complement of followership. Focusing on leadership alone is like trying to understand clapping by studying only the left hand....it's no puzzle to understand why people want to lead. The real puzzle is why people are willing to follow."

This is a really interesting read – though you might have to resist the urge to start pathologising every inclination or distaste once you‘ve read it. Only 1 in 8 people with a phobia seek help, so I think it was really great of Summerscale to wisely include many comforting examples of people who have undertaken treatment with great success. Full review: https://keepingupwiththepenguins.com/the-book-of-phobias-and-manias-kate-summers...

I related to Jamison in many ways and am appreciative to her for writing the book. It isn't easy living with mental illness, but she wrote in such a way as to be accessible to all.

I really keep trying to give white men the benefit of the doubt on trauma books they get published and I just really have to stop. Author attempts to use Buddha and Freuds approaches to trauma together, as if epistemologically they are aligned. Freud is a problematic elder to the way trauma in psychology is understood. Ugh.

Cozy Wood Wick candle and tagged book is getting me through today. I have bipolar disorder and reading about someone else's experiences with the disorder is comforting to me, even though it isn't always pleasant.

I really loved “The Ghost Map”, so I wanted to give this one a crack. It‘s all about the how the science/ art of decision making has improved over the centuries. I enjoyed reflecting on the process of making decisions and how key various human faculties are to a successful process.