Psychology & Behavior

“Peter is a former Stanford colleague and a brilliant philosopher of science. But this book is an extraordinary excursion into the philosophy of mind – a thorough exploration of a species in which intelligence arose completely independent of the evolutionary line that produced human intelligence... I have recommended this book to scores of people of all backgrounds, and without exception they find it accessible and deeply rewarding.”

“I don't give a damn how rich you are financially or how abundant you are with your family or love. We all experience extreme stress in our life at some point. It's the ultimate equalizer... the ability to find meaning in the most difficult times, I think, is one of the most important skills of life, and there's probably not a greater example than that book.”

“There's two takeaways that I had from that book that have drastically changed and kind of altered and even built the philosophy of how I run my teams. The first piece is that you always want to be asking people questions... curiosity over judgment. The second takeaway is that encouragement is always going to work better than criticism.”

“There are two things I really got from this book: our circumstances do not dictate how we feel about ourselves; our thoughts about our circumstances and the meaning we give them are what dictate the outcomes. Winners and losers have no different circumstances, they just have different meanings they ascribe to those circumstances.”

“I have long been captivated by Jung's emphasis on dreams and archetypes. This autobiographical work, one of my favorite books, helped me explore the possibility that our nighttime dreams, far from shutting us off from 'the real world,' actually open up another reality — a timeless place that allows us to listen to our souls.”