Look again
the power of noticing what was always there
- ISBN: 9780349128788
- Editorial: The Bridge Street Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2025
- Lugar de la edición: London. Reino Unido
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 20 cm
- Nº Pág.: 271
- Idiomas: Inglés
Have you ever noticed that what is thrilling on Monday tends to become boring on Friday? Even exciting relationships, stimulating jobs, and breathtaking works of art lose their sparkle after a while. People stop noticing what is most wonderful in their own lives. They also stop noticing what is terrible. They get used to dirty air. They stay in abusive relationships. People grow to accept authoritarianism and take foolish risks. They become unconcerned by their own misconduct, blind to inequality, and are more liable to believe misinformation than ever before. But what if we could find a way to see everything anew? What if you could regain sensitivity, not only to the great things in your life, but also to the terrible things you stopped noticing and so don't try to change?
Introduction: How we habituate to everything, all the time
Part I
Well-being. Happiness : on ice cream, the midlife crisis, and monogamy
Variety : why you should chop up the good but swallow the bad whole
Social media : how to wake up from a technologically induced coma
Resilience : a critical ingredient for a healthy mind
Part II
Thinking and believing. Creativity : overcoming the habituation of thought
Lying : how to keep your child from growing a long nose
(Mis)information : how to make people believe (almost) anything
Part III
Health and safety. Risk : what Swedes taught us about högertrafikomläggningen
Environment : you could live next to a pig farm in the South during summer
Part IV
Society. Progress : breaking the chains of low expectations
Discrimination : the gentle Jew, the miniskirt-wearing scientist, and the children who were just not cool
Tyranny : the devastatingly incremental nature of descent into fascism
Law : putting a price on pain?
Experiments in living : the future of dishabituation
