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An enormous number of people have influenced my thinking, but three were particularly important: William Braud, Barbara Babcock, and Edmund Leach. Parapsychologist William Braud integrated an enormous range of findings with his model of lability and inertia in psi processes. Barbara Babcock is the most significant interpreter of the trickster figur

I highly recommend Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect by Matthew D. Lieberman.

Robert Waldinger

The Precocious Child is the origin of our curiosity and our adventurous impulses.

an enormous project going on among many disciplines—psychology, economics, neurobiology, sociology, anthropology, political science—to redefine human nature as something more communal, cooperative, and compassionate.

it proved to be his most significant departure from Freud, and his most important single contribution to psychology.

In the traditional male hero’s hierarchy of needs, self-actualization is nowhere to be found—because the more he values himself, the less he is willing to sacrifice himself.