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Think with Jonathan Haidt's tools

12 Stations through Haidt's two books, from the rider and the elephant to why good people disagree, ending in a one-page plan for a real disagreement with a colleague who sees it differently.

We do not re-summarise The Happiness Hypothesis; it has its own road. We connect two books: its rider, elephant and sources of happiness, then The Righteous Mind on why decent colleagues judge the same decision differently: intuitions first, six moral foundations, values that bind and blind. The order is a teaching order designed by BookYol, not the author's own.

Training the elephant instead of lecturing itPutting effort where adaptation does not erase itCatching the verdict that comes before the reasonsReading the moral foundation behind an objectionDisagreeing in a way that can change a mind
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The road, station by station

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  1. 01The rider and the elephant

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    from The Happiness Hypothesis

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  2. 02Retrain a pessimistic elephant, one thought at a time

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    from The Happiness Hypothesis

  3. 03Why More Will Not Do It

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    from The Happiness Hypothesis

  4. 04Happiness Comes from Between

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    from The Happiness Hypothesis

  5. 05Tit for tat with a warm start

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    from The Happiness Hypothesis

  6. 06Catch moments of elevation and awe

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    from The Happiness Hypothesis

  7. Milestone

    The elephant trained, happiness found between

    One cue the elephant meets has been changed, one distorted thought rewritten, the next 'more' weighed against a renewing activity, three people given a day, one small kindness offered first, and one moment of elevation turned into an act.

  8. 07The log in your own eye

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    from The Happiness Hypothesis

  9. 08Intuitions come first, reasons second

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    from The Righteous Mind

  10. 09Six taste receptors of the moral mind

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    from The Righteous Mind

  11. 10Shared values bind a team, and blind it

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    from The Righteous Mind

  12. 11The hive switch: when we outweighs me

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    from The Righteous Mind

  13. 12Speak to the elephant first

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    from The Righteous Mind

  14. Milestone

    Destination: a disagreement prepared for the elephant

    One real disagreement at work is prepared on one page: your own instant verdict and what would change it, the foundation each side speaks from, what your team treats as sacred, the part of the other view you accept, and the question you will ask first.

The BookYol LetterTwo letters a week

For the road

The road is daily. The letter is weekly.

While you walk Think with Jonathan Haidt's tools, two letters a week widen the view: a big idea on Tuesday and a small experiment on Friday, drawn from the same shelf of books.

Tuesday

The Big Idea

One idea that challenges an assumption, explained properly, with its source.

Friday

The Small Experiment

One small thing to try before Monday, so the idea becomes something you do.

Inside every letter

  1. 01The idea
  2. 02Why it works
  3. 03Where it comes from
  4. 04One thing to try

No spam, no selling your address. Just the letters.

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