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Chatter
by Ethan Kross
Hm. This book happened. One of those where it was so 'meh' that I can't even motivate myself to write a detailed review on why. Bullet points:
- False premise as the author assumes all human beings think primarily in verbal thoughts/speech. See Temple Grandin's Thinking in Pictures to refute this. Author repeated multiple times that language/speech was fundamental to human thought, which is not true.
- Clearly aimed at the "worried well" and little to no acknowledgement of people with significant anxiety, depression, etc.
- Research was thin and rarely actually related to his thesis, many points stretched to fit his idea of "chatter."
- Not very engaging, rather redundant. Could have been a Medium article and little would have been lost.
Disappointing from a scientist's perspective, but also not particularly useful for laymen either. The section of tools at the back of the book is good, but the rest of the book doesn't really add much.
- False premise as the author assumes all human beings think primarily in verbal thoughts/speech. See Temple Grandin's Thinking in Pictures to refute this. Author repeated multiple times that language/speech was fundamental to human thought, which is not true.
- Clearly aimed at the "worried well" and little to no acknowledgement of people with significant anxiety, depression, etc.
- Research was thin and rarely actually related to his thesis, many points stretched to fit his idea of "chatter."
- Not very engaging, rather redundant. Could have been a Medium article and little would have been lost.
Disappointing from a scientist's perspective, but also not particularly useful for laymen either. The section of tools at the back of the book is good, but the rest of the book doesn't really add much.