David Brooks has written an absolutely fascinating book about how we form
our emotions and character. Standing at the intersection of brain science
and sociology, and writing with the wry wit of a James Thurber, he explores
the unconscious mind and how it shapes the way we eat, love, live, vacation,
and relate to other people. In The Social Animal, he makes the recent
revolution in neuroscience understandable, and he applies it to those things
we have the most trouble knowing how to teach: What is the best way to build
true relationships? How do we instill imaginative thinking? How do we
develop our moral intuitions and wisdom and character? Brooks has always
been a keen observer of the way we live. Now he takes us one layer down,
to why we live that way.

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