Are Humans Crazy? Maybe not. Read These 10 Books to Understand Them Better

There is a lot to how humans behave and act

Novel Nest
8 min readJun 11, 2024

‘I hate people.’

You might have uttered the above sentence more times than once.

Perhaps you were angry at your spouse, or maybe you were angry at the random stranger who cut off your way while driving.

The thing is that humans are complicated.

There is our brain, our bodies, hormones, psychology, genes, environment, and much more. All these play a role in how a person acts or doesn’t act.

1. Behave by Robert M. Spolasky

Are Humans Crazy? Maybe not. Read These 10 Books to Understand Them Better
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What determines our behavior?

It is a lot more than our emotions. Our brain, the culture we grew up in, our hormones, and the phase of life we are in, all affect how we act.

“… culture matters. We carry it with us wherever we go.”

Spolasky touches on brain and body development throughout the different stages of life. In the womb, in the infant stage, in the toddler stage, in teenage and adulthood.

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