Being the Person Your Dog Thinks You Are, The Science of a Better You by Jim Davies -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Dedication Front Matters Front Unmatters and Front Antimatters Part I: About You

Chapter 1: Productivity

An Optimizer Personal Productivity Sharpening the Saw vs. Cutting Your Mind, Your Time, Your Attention The Effects of Distraction Why Are People Sabotaging Themselves?

Chapter 2: Hacking Your Brain, Hacking Your Life

How to Hack Your Cognitive System How to Hack Your Habit System How to Hack Your Reward System Working Without Distraction: I’m Here to Make an Hour Out of Fifteen Minutes The Project List The Half-Hours Method The Half-Hours Method: Master Class Competing Methods How to Read More Effectively Idea Capture How to Sleep Helping Yourself by Helping Others

Chapter 3: Happiness

Your Life Satisfaction Habituation Happiness Is In-born Happiness Comes from Within Happiness Comes from Without Hang Out with Friends and Loved Ones A (Good) Marriage and (Maybe) Children Happiness and Memory There Is More to a Good Life than Being Happy

Part II: It’s Not About You

Chapter 4: What We Think Is Right and Wrong

Morality vs. Selfishness The Expanding Circle The Social Group The Out-Group and Animals Anything That Can Suffer Morality, Personality, and Emotion The Good of the Many vs. the Rights of the Few Your Identity as a Charitable Person Doing Bad Is More Powerful than Doing Good Your Brain on Morals

Chapter 5: What’s Actually Right and Wrong Chapter 6: A Work in Progress

Having and Not Having Children: Moral Issues Ethical Purchases Think Globally, Act Globally

Chapter 7: The (Numerical) Value of Human Life Chapter 8: Choosing a Career Chapter 9: Measuring Good Done Chapter 10: Animals

Is Life Suffering? Helping Animals

Chapter 11: Comparing Human to Animal Suffering Chapter 12: Environmental Morality Chapter 13: Choosing Charities Chapter 14: How to Mobilize People to Be Good

How People Give, How People Donate Are Humans Good for the World?

Chapter 15: When Giving Gives Back

Where Does It All End? How Much Is Too Much? The Only Local Activism that Makes Sense

Acknowledgments About the Author Endnotes Index Copyright