Reddit reviews How the Mind Works (Penguin Press Science)

I'll share my reading list for the next 12 months as it's how I plan to become a better learner:


 

Learning

• Learning How To Learn - Free online course
  
• Become a Straight-A Student - Book
  
• Make it Stick - Book
  
  
  Improving Maths
  
• A Mind for Numbers - Book
  
• Secrets of Mental Math - Book
  
• Vedic Mathematics- Book
  
  
  Improving Reading Speed
  
• Breakthrough Rapid Reading - Book
  
  
  Algorithmic thinking
  
• Algorithms to Live By - Book
  
  
  Understanding the Mind
  
• How the Mind Works - Book
  
• Thinking Fast, Thinking Slow - Book
  
• The Owner's Manual for the Brain - Book
  
  
  Productivity
  
• Getting Things Done - Book
  
• The Willpower Instinct - Book
  
• Willpower Doesn't Work - Book
  
• The Chimp Paradox - Book
  
  
  
  It's an ambitious reading list for the next 12 months as there is some heavy reading in there but hopefully you can get one or two useful suggestions from it!

Hi! If you can, let us know a little more about what you think you're interested in already, or what you already know something about. Psychology covers a lot of very different things.


Here are a few broad books which I found interesting before I studied it formally, for if you're not yet sure where to focus:

• Psychology: A very short introduction - Covers the basics, easy to understand, and will give you a good idea of what you want to know more about! (There's also one of these 'very short introductions' to the brain, which you might also find interesting. It's more biology and neuroscience, but there's a lot of overlap to psychology.)
  
  
  
• The Man who mistook his wife for a hat, by Oliver Sacks - A very interesting selection of stories, about the bizarre and mysterious things that brains can do when they're not operating quite as normal. Very easy to read, and very personal and involved with the patients themselves.
  
  
• How the mind works, by Steven Pinker - A longer, slightly in depth book, although it still covers a wide range of material. Quite a lot of jokes, and it's well written!
  
  
  
  Anyway, I hope that helps, and let me know if you do have any particular interests, and I'll see what I can think of! Psychology is really great, and I think there's an area of it to keep almost anybody interested.