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Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life
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3 1/2 stars
While this book was accurate it sometimes had fallacies.
For ex all newborns stick their tongues out. It’s one of the first things humans do as infants. So sticking your tongue out to an infant & the infant doing it back does not prove it’s mimicking us.
Despite that bad example, we are creatures who mimic each other.
Also while we do, it’s not mimicry that leads us most. The author didn’t account for ego at all or the need to be loved & accepted, which usually lies under most of our behaviors.
Maybe because I’m one who mostly “swims against the current� the idea that we behave like we do primarily because we mirror others isn’t very convincing. It was also very male-oriented & business oriented. I couldn’t relate to either.
With that said a lot of things presented in the book are interesting & true of human nature.
I’m not sure that it will help most to look at their motivations because it’s not presented in a way to do that. A reader will have to go far from the information to use it in discovering more about themselves.
I still enjoyed the anecdotes & points made. The narration for the audiobook, which I received through NetGalley to review, is well enough done.
It was worth the listen.
While this book was accurate it sometimes had fallacies.
For ex all newborns stick their tongues out. It’s one of the first things humans do as infants. So sticking your tongue out to an infant & the infant doing it back does not prove it’s mimicking us.
Despite that bad example, we are creatures who mimic each other.
Also while we do, it’s not mimicry that leads us most. The author didn’t account for ego at all or the need to be loved & accepted, which usually lies under most of our behaviors.
Maybe because I’m one who mostly “swims against the current� the idea that we behave like we do primarily because we mirror others isn’t very convincing. It was also very male-oriented & business oriented. I couldn’t relate to either.
With that said a lot of things presented in the book are interesting & true of human nature.
I’m not sure that it will help most to look at their motivations because it’s not presented in a way to do that. A reader will have to go far from the information to use it in discovering more about themselves.
I still enjoyed the anecdotes & points made. The narration for the audiobook, which I received through NetGalley to review, is well enough done.
It was worth the listen.
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