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An Overview of Great Biographies in My Personal Library (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_330)

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

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Science, Society & Culture, Education

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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I go over some unbelievable biographies of historical figures such as Einstein, Newton, Darwin, Galileo, Pasteur, Descartes, Spinoza, Bacon, Da Vinci, Freud, Maimonides, and many others. _______________________________________ If you appreciate my work and would like to support it: https://subscribestar.com/the-saad-truth https://patreon.com/GadSaad https://paypal.me/GadSaad _______________________________________ This clip was posted earlier today (November 25, 2021) on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1341: https://youtu.be/pztBG1V6XKs _______________________________________ The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense (paperback edition) was released on October 5, 2021. Order your copy now. https://www.amazon.com/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= https://www.amazon.ca/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X https://www.amazon.co.uk/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X _______________________________________ Please visit my website gadsaad.com, and sign up for alerts. If you appreciate my content, click on the "Support My Work" button. I count on my fans to support my efforts. You can donate via Patreon, PayPal, and/or SubscribeStar. _______________________________________ Dr. Gad Saad is a professor, evolutionary behavioral scientist, and author who pioneered the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behavior. In addition to his scientific work, Dr. Saad is a leading public intellectual who often writes and speaks about idea pathogens that are destroying logic, science, reason, and common sense. _______________________________________

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0:00.0

Hi everybody this is Scott's ad I thought I would try something different today

0:05.2

You know one of the things that stresses me the most when I walk into my study every day to work is I've got a very, very extensive personal library.

0:14.0

Hundreds and hundreds of books, many of which I've read of course, but many which I've yet to read.

0:20.0

And the mere thought that there are all of this knowledge out there that I don't yet have in this

0:26.9

brain stresses the hell out of me.

0:31.0

And so I started looking around, I said, you know, how many books do I have biographies on great scientists, philosophers, thinkers over the history of humanity that either I've read or many of which I've yet to read.

0:46.4

And so I just went through a couple of the shelves of my personal library.

0:51.4

So this is not an exhaustive list and just wanted to show you some of the incredible books. I hope it's not too tedious, but I'll try to speak about each. So here I've got tons of books I've maybe 50 but I probably have

1:06.3

tons more I as I said I didn't go through the exhaustive list just of biographies of great

1:11.3

so here is why Freud was wrong.

1:16.4

Here I got a great story about this which I talk about actually in my next book.

1:20.8

One day I was, I just finished teaching a an MBA course at University of California, Irvine,

1:28.6

when I was a visiting professor there.

1:30.5

And many of the students were sort of in the health management MBA, a lot of them were physician.

1:36.0

And so a female student comes up to me at the end of the course and says,

1:40.0

I just wanted to thank you, Dr. Saden.

1:42.0

I said, for what? She goes goes for the way that you went after

1:45.6

Freud and to us I think to a smaller extent I went after Young as well I was talking

1:50.3

about psychoanalysis and some of the projection techniques that have been developed in psychoanalysis and then how it has been subsequently used by marketing researchers and I had attacked Freud for some of his quackery and she said

2:06.8

well thank you so much because I am a practicing psychiatrist and I had never had the courage

2:11.7

to to sort of go after my professors when they were all

2:15.2

hailing Freud during my training or something to that effect. So here's a book on Freud.

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