A Book About Love
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| Rating | : | 4.34 (748 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 147676140X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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“Jonah Lehrer has a lot to offer the world… The book is interesting on nearly every page… Good writers make writing look easy, but what people like Lehrer do is not easy at all.”—David Brooks, The New York Times Book Review"The animating idea of his intriguing new book is that two opposing psychological laws, habituation and love, shape much of human experience Lehrer uses scores of detailed vignettes to traverse a complicated intellectual landscape, eventually arriving at modern theories of love. Lehrer is a talent"—Matt McCarthy, USA Today"The amazing thing that starts to happen, in pages I wanted to dislike, is that the anecdotes and insights made me stop thinking about Lehrer—stop noticing and interrogating his defensive notations—and instead, started taking measure of my own ability to love."—Nathan Deuel, Los Angeles Times"Here is my deliberately short review: It is a good book."—Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution
Roscoepound the Hound said Great insights on how we learn to love. Lehrer takes on a complex subject and delivers a comprehensive, accessible study on "love" (or, more accurately, attachment theory) which should be required reading for anyone in a relationship or considering beginning one. Judging this book by the author's past, btw, is beside the point. Or, maybe, it is the point - but he doesn't deserve continued villificat. "Well Written and Researched" according to Pamela Bowen. The book is well written and researched. I appreciated all of the citations, the examples, and the stories. The ending felt vague to me, thus the reason for four stars.. Finprofessor said Really interesting and important. I really liked this book. As a behavioral economist I have long noticed that we spend so little real research and study into the most important things: the relationship we have with our spouse and our children. On the contrary, there are thousands of volumes written about becoming more successful in our careers which in the end is less important. I really comm
Jonah Lehrer is a writer, and the author of A Book About Love, How We Decide, and Proust Was a Neuroscientist. He graduated from Columbia University and studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. He lives in Los Angeles, California. He’s written for The New Yorker, Nature, Wired, The New York Times M
From the way infants attach to their parents, to the way we fall in love with another person, to the way some find a love for God or their pets, to the way we remember and mourn love after it expires, this book focuses on research that attempts, even in glancing ways, to deal with the long-term and the everyday.The most dangerous myth of love is that it’s easy, that we fall into the feeling and then the feeling takes care of itself. Love, Lehrer argues, is not built solely on overwhelming passion, but, fascinatingly, on a set of skills to be cultivated over a lifetime.. It has inspired our greatest poetry, defined our societies and our beliefs, and governs our biology. “Lehrer uses scores of detailed vignettes to traverse a complicated intellectual landscape, eventually arriving at modern theories of love…He is a talent” (USA TODAY), and A Book About Love decodes the set of skills necessary to cultivate a lifetime of love. While we can easily measure the dopamine that causes the initial feelings of “falling” in love, the partnerships and devotions