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The World Beyond Your Head
- On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction
- By: Matthew B. Crawford
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 310
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 279
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 277
We often complain about our fractured mental lives and feel beset by outside forces that destroy our focus and disrupt our peace of mind. Any defense against this, Crawford argues, requires that we reckon with the way attention sculpts the self. Crawford investigates the intense focus of ice hockey players and short-order chefs, the quasi-autistic behavior of gambling addicts, the familiar hassles of daily life, and the deep, slow craft of building pipe organs.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Things/Aware People?
- By Darwin8u on 05-25-15
- The World Beyond Your Head
- On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction
- By: Matthew B. Crawford
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
Sharp thinker, especially when thinking with his hands.
Reviewed: 02-23-25
The book is sharp. He scratches to get past the surface of embodied cognition - even as it is distributed across the body of a group.
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Late Admissions
- Confessions of a Black Conservative
- By: Glenn Loury
- Narrated by: Glenn Loury
- Length: 18 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 142
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 133
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 133
A shockingly frank memoir from a prize-winning economist, reflecting on his remarkable personal odyssey and his changing positions on identity, race, and belief.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Engaging listen. Full of lurid details
- By Melody on 06-23-24
- Late Admissions
- Confessions of a Black Conservative
- By: Glenn Loury
- Narrated by: Glenn Loury
Late Admissions is impressive and personal
Reviewed: 07-11-24
I’m generally not a memoir consumer, but I found this very compelling and easy to listen to. He’s seems not just trying to genuinely look himself in the eye, but to poke and prod and search his own soul. To seriously lean into that painful practice of understanding one’s own problems and improving one’s own self - navigating detrimental and beneficent appetites.
It seemed to me, he does this while also applying something similar, scaled out, to his various groups. Academic/career groups, religious groups, friend groups, political groups, and racial groups all get knowing glances in this work. Not without sympathy, but with a genuine, thorough, problem-solving rigor that any listener of his podcast could expect.
I got the sense that amid all of this, he’s persistently asking the tangled question from Romans 7: “Oh wretched man that I am, who will deliver me from the body of this death?” And maybe none of us can grow without that angle of approach.
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