Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior by Leonard Mlodinow EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author Name: Leonard Mlodinow
- Book Genre: Brain, Business, Neuroscience, Nonfiction, Psychology, Science, Self Help
- Series Detail:
- ISBN # 9780307378217
- ASIN # 0307378217
- Edition Language: English
- Date of Publication: April 24, 2012
- PDF File Size: 4.8 MB
- EPUB File Size: 8.4 MB
The New Unconscious
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
—BLAISE PASCAL
HEN MY MOTHER was eighty-
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WHEN MY MOTHER was eighty-five she inherited, from my son, a pet
Russian tortoise named Miss Dinnerman. It lived in her yard, in a
large pen enclosing both shrubs and lawn, delineated by chicken
wire. My mother’s knees were starting to go, so she’d had to curtail
her traditional two-hour walks around the neighborhood. She was
looking for a new friend, one she could easily access, and the
tortoise got the job. She decorated the pen with rocks and pieces of
wood and visited the animal every day, just like she used to visit the
bank teller and the cashiers at Big Lots. On occasion she even
brought Miss Dinnerman flowers, which she thought made the pen
look pretty, but which the tortoise treated like a delivery from the
local Pizza Hut.
My mother didn’t mind when the tortoise ate her bouquets. She
thought it was cute. “Look how she enjoys it,” she’d say. But despite
the cushy existence, the free room and board, and the freshly cut
flowers, Miss Dinnerman’s main goal in life seemed to be escape.
Whenever she wasn’t eating or sleeping, Miss Dinnerman would
walk the perimeter, poking around for a hole in the chicken wire.
She would even try to climb it, as awkward as a skateboarder trying
to scale a spiral staircase. My mother saw this behavior, too, in
human terms. To her, it was a heroic effort, like POW Steve
McQueen plotting his breakout from a Nazi camp in The Great
Escape. “Every creature wants freedom,” my mother told me.
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