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Back in the hunter-gatherer days, the Primitive Mind was mostly on point—but in the modern world, it’s our collective mental illness. And no one is immune.
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The Cult of Personality Testing: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves
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Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness
Berning’s nervous breakdown finally brought Ivar out of hiding. Ivar was no stranger to mental illness. Both his mother and her father had problems. More recently, Ivar himself had been battling his own bouts of mania and depression while locked in his Silence Room. So he probably could relate to the breakdown.
Frank Partnoy • The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals
Book Review: Crazy Like Us
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What sets Storm apart from other thinkers who have explored similar intellectual territory—like Claude Lévi-Strauss with his notion of “bricolage” and Jean Piaget with his observations of children and their toys—is his refusal to treat the eolithic mindset as archaic or merely a phase for primitive societies or toddlers.
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However, he continues, over the last 50 years the need for people to be “legible” and fit into a standard model of work has merely become “industrially preferable.” This puts government and institutional leaders in a position where they are incentivized to convince people that following rigid paths in their institutions is the correct path for
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