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My Thoughts on the Books I Read!

Determined - The Science of Life without Free Will

Author: Robert M. Sapolsky Publication Date: October 2023
2025-04-21 4 min read Sincheenz

Where does your aversion to things, animals, or even certain people come from? Why do you behave in a particular way and avoid behaving in another? Are you responsible for all your actions and the choices you make? Or is it all biology?

This is the main topic of this book Determined ““ Is there free will? And if there is NO free will, are we just machines driven by our physiology? And if we believe there is no free will and it is also determined, will there be fewer acts of kindness, will we feel less appreciated and not credited for our efforts, or do we need to think beyond?

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Behave - The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Author: Robert M. Sapolsky Publication Date: May 2017
2024-09-24 3 min read Sincheenz

This is not a book you can casually read before bed’at least not for me. It’s filled with a wealth of information on neuroscience, psychology, studies conducted, papers published, and more. It was very interesting, and I learned so much from it. It took me a while to read, as I had many interruptions, which meant I had to go back and reread several chapters.

The book is about why we behave the way we do’what makes us congenial, aggressive, possessive, or averse. The author explores how several factors influence our behavior. He starts by explaining what happens at the very moment we display a particular behavior, and then explains, how what happens - a few minutes, hours, days, and all the way back to how events during adolescence, or even in the womb, could have contributed to many of the reactions we show today.

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