Davies proves why multitasking is bad for you, when a little unmindfulness can be good for you, how to best justify which charities to donate to, and how to hack your brain. Where most books imagine solutions that, when enacted, fail to fundamentally improve our lives, Jim Davies grounds his research in cognitive science to show you not only what works, but how much it works.īeing the Person Your Dog Thinks You Are shows us how we can use science to become our best selves, using resources we already have within our own brains.ĭavies' book challenges and inspires us to approach the big picture while also staying mindful of the everyday details in real life. Why do we feel like in order to be productive, happy, or good, we must sacrifice everything else? Is it possible to feel all three at once? Without even knowing it, we’re doing things everyday to sabotage ourselves and our societies, habits that prevent us from optimizing long term happiness. Publicist: Jessica Case at Pegasus books, book's webpage is at Longer DescriptionĪ crisp and sparkling blend of cognitive science and human behavior that offers meaningful and attainable pathways towards becoming our best selves. Your dog thinks you are: The science of a better you. Publisher: Pegasus Books (February 2, 2021),ĪPA Citation: Davies, J. Title: Being the Person Your Dog Thinks You Are: Book Information Being the Person Your Dog Thinks You Are Internationally-produced playwright, game designer, and a professional painter and calligrapher. In his spare time, he is a published poet, an

He has been asked to speak at four TEDx events, and isĬo-host of the award-winning Minding the Brain podcast. Power, and Being the Person Your Dog Thinks You Are: The Imagination: The Science of Your Mind's Greatest Religion Makes us Feel One with the Universe,

Science of Why Jokes Make us Laugh, Movies Make us Cry, and He wrote the popular science books Riveted: The He is author of over 50 peer-reviewed publications in the fields ofĬognitive science, artificial intelligence, philosophy, and His work has shown how people use visual thinking to solve problems, and how they visualize imagined situations and worlds. As director of the Science of Imagination Laboratory, he explores processes of imagination in humans and machines, and specializes in artificial intelligence, analogy, problem-solving, and the psychology of art, religion, and creativity. He has degrees in philosophy, computer science, and cognitive psychology.

Jim Davies is a full professor in the Institute of Cognitive Science at Carleton University, where he has won awards for his teaching and research. Literary Agent: Don Fehr of Trident Media Group Literary Agencyįor Imagination and Being the Person Your Dog Thinks You All material on this page may be used free in any publication or medium.

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