Explaining Humans: Winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2020

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This isn't a book about understanding human behaviour really, if you want to learn about humans this isn't the best thing to read. Maybe it was the fact that I had a dedicated adult mentor sitting next to me in each class, my tendency to go into meltdown when a teacher said a word that scared me, or my uncontrollable nervous tics. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. It's not easy reading if you don't like science, (and even if you do), but if you take the trip with her it's a fascinating way to look at things. A wider audience could have been reached more effectively if Pang had focused primarily on her own subjective experience, rather than general prescriptions.

To disrupt our warped perception of social norms, Millie introduces us to the protein model of teamwork where unlike people, proteins recognise and respect the need for difference and in turn, we should also learn to embrace and harness our true personality rather than denying or masking it. Consider că această teorie este fascinantă, deoarece demonstrează, încă o dată, cât de importantă este capacitatea ființei umane de a coopera și de a căuta oamenii alături de care să găsească fericirea, dar și calea către atingerea unei desăvârșiri în doi.

Things are often repeated with vague paraphrasings in lieu of actual explanations and thoughts are sometimes dropped half baked just to move on to the next. I think Camilla is clearly very intelligent but when it comes to writing I'm not sure this is the field to be in. Proteins teach us that being different help us to work well together, and that individuality is fundamental to effective teamwork. Camilla Pang’s mastery of a broad range of subjects, collectively with her self-effacing, and quirky sense of humor, makes her book stand out in comparison to other self-help popular science titles. Pang's application of scientific metaphors starts off poorly by relying on outdated theories or unquestioned folk psychology.

Early in the chapter, the metaphor works on simple level to give a sense of how inductive and deductive reasoning differ, but there’s no reason why the box needs to be flimsy or the tree sturdy. No matter, if you are a neurotypical person, neuro-divergent person you will thoroughly enjoy reading this book where you will learn how to better oneself through applying fundamental concepts from mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and computer science. Her career and studies have been heavily influenced by her diagnosis and she is driven by her passion for understanding humans, our behaviours and how we work. Oft auch mit Humor und Witz erzählt Pang von den vielen Fettnäpfchen, in die sie als Autistin mit ADHS in ihrem Leben schon gestolpert ist.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. By drawing the connection between machine learning and decision-making, Millie concludes that machine learning teaches us that ‘mistakes’ are normal and inherent in real data, therefore we should embrace instead of run away from the mistakes and setbacks in our own lives. On thinking outside the box, Millie likens the process of decision-making to machine learning, where “algorithms excel by their ability to be unstructured, to thrive amid complexity and randomness and respond effectively to changes in circumstances. I get the impression that her methods of managing her anxieties are specific to herself, and not really generalisable to anyone else. Whether you are neurotypical or neurodiverse (and come to think of it, the latter really emasculates the former), this book is a fascinating, entertaining and helpful read.

Când două personalități umane reușesc să conlucreze într-un mod care le ajută să se ridice la un nivel la care nu ar fi ajuns niciodată singure, înseamnă că au aceeași „frecvență de rezonanță”.

I have no idea what I've just written, but it somehow shows a middle pathway between living in the now all the time and living for tomorrow and planning ahead. I've always found human beings strange and difficult to understand, but until very recently, no one thought I should be evaluated for autism. If you want to read some lightly entertaining neurodivergent anecdotes tenuously linked to unproven self-help advice via irrelevant pop-science chatter and metaphors tortured to the point of breaking and well beyond: this is the book for you.