benkaboo 's review for:

The Ten Types of Human by Dexter Dias
4.0

Summary:

A book about some pretty messed up things that happen in the world and trying to bring a lense of neuroscience and perspective to help us understand these things.

Things I liked:

Clear assumptions and hypothesis outlined at the start

Things I thought could have been improved

Argument wandered towards the middle/end of the book and became more about the author's experience and finishing off the stories/humanitarian-focus than the neuro-science focus that the author began with. I think this could have been called out in the early chapters of the book.

The 10 archetypes I think are a bit uneven with early ones like the 'kinsman' kind of explain a lot more than others. 10 seems a fairly arbitrary number and was probably chosen by marketers vs well thought out rationale.

Highlight:

I think the stories about the Kid being sold into slavery
Spoilerwhen he went for coke was where I started getting chills.
The whole things is full of stories that really get you thinking.