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Psychoanalysis, behaviorism, and even most of cognitive psychology embody this assumption. But they have left out the pivotal feature, the very fulcrum of human agency, by which we metabolize the past and present into projected futures—prospection. What happens when the canonical human becomes Homo prospectus, and our ability to think about our futures becomes our defining ability? • What if perception is less about the registration of what is present, than about generating a reliable hallucination of what to expect? • What if memory is not a file drawer of photographs, but a changing collection of possibilities? • What if emotion is not agitation from the now, but guidance for the future? • What if happiness is not the report of a current state, but the prediction of how things are going to go? • What if morality is not evaluation of the present action, but the prediction of character and its thrust into the future? • What if treating clinical disorders is less about trying to resolve past conflicts, than about changing the way an individual faces the future? • What if the mind is not a storehouse of knowledge, but an engine of prediction? • In short, what if we are not driven by the past, but drawn into the future? These propositions are what this book is about.

Homo Prospectus

Martin E. P. Seligman, Roy F. Baumeister, Peter Railton, Chandra Sripada

John Kelly tried to prevent intelligence from being taken upstairs to the president or left in Trump’s possession after briefings. Trump’s behavior illustrated why Kelly was concerned: Trump waved items such as his letters with Kim Jong-un, which he appeared to believe the North Korean leader had written himself, at visitors to the Oval Office, including reporters. Some saw nefarious ends in this behavior while others believed he was operating with the emotional development of a twelve-year-old, using the intelligence data to get attention for himself.

Confidence Man

Maggie Haberman

Arriving in Cleveland in the 1850s, he worked in a lard-oil refinery owned by yet another Englishman, C. A. Dean, and acquired extensive experience in making tallow, candles, and coal oil. Then, in 1860, Dean got a ten-barrel shipment of Pennsylvania crude from which Andrews distilled the first oil-based kerosene manufactured in Cleveland. The secret of “cleansing” oil with sulfuric acid— what we now term refining—was then a high mystery, zealously guarded by a local priesthood of practical chemists, and many curious businessmen beat a path to Andrews’s door. An expert on illuminants enthralled by the unique properties of kerosene, Andrews was convinced it would outshine and outsell other sources of light. Finances were tight in the Andrews household—his wife took in sewing to supplement his income—but by 1862, Sam was plotting to leave Dean and strike out on his own. On the lookout for backers, he frequently dropped by the offices of Clark and Rockefeller.

Titan

Ron Chernow

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