Tales of a Tsundoku Bibliophile - My Six Latest Book Purchases (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_697)

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

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🗓️ 19 July 2024

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List of the six books in question: 1) Steven Pinker (2018). Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress. 2) Eric J. Johnson (2021). The Elements of Choice: Why the Way We Decide Matters. 3) Pascal Bruckner (2010). The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism. 4) Bernard Lewis (1995). The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years. 5) David Robson (2019). The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes. 6) Savannah Gibson (2019). The Spirit of Inquiry: How One Extraordinary Society Shaped Modern Science. _______________________________________ 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 To subscribe to my exclusive content on Twitter, please visit my bio at https://twitter.com/GadSaad _______________________________________ This clip was posted on July 18, 2024 on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1709: https://youtu.be/JbgI6JlpCXQ _______________________________________ 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 Sad as some of you know I am a avid book collector
0:07.5	I have hundreds and hundreds of books in my personal library many of which I've yet to read, which causes me great angst.
0:17.0	So what do I do when I have hundreds of books that I've yet to read?
0:22.0	Well, buy more books to read.
0:24.0	There's actually a Japanese term that I recently became aware of.
0:30.0	Let me just read it here for you.
0:32.0	Song Duco, this is from the Wikipedia entry.
0:35.0	Zondoku is the phenomenon of acquiring reading materials
0:40.0	but letting them pile up in one's home without reading them.
0:43.4	The term is also used to refer to books ready for reading later when they are on a
0:48.6	bookshelf.
0:49.9	The term leave and dukusho reading books.
1:03.2	There are suggestions to use the word
1:05.0	in the English language and included
1:06.3	in dictionaries like the Collins Dictionary,
1:09.2	the American author and bibliophile. E- A. Edward Newton commented on a similar state in
1:18.0	1921. In his 2007 book, The Black Swan, Nacim Taleb, who's a friend of mine,
1:27.1	coined the term anti-lib which has been compared with sonoku. So. So there you have it. I'm certainly one who has been
1:37.1	collecting books for many many years. There's nothing more than I love than to go to a used bookstore and find those rare jewels. So today the weather was not very sunny, at least in the morning, in in Southern California and so my family and I went to a
1:57.7	bookstore that has used books for sale at unbelievable prices.
2:03.2	There's nothing more magical than to find incredible books at giveaway prices.
2:09.4	So I'm going to go through the six that I got here and maybe mention one or two things about each.
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