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The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind by Gustave Le Bon
One of the greatest and most influential books of social psychology ever written, brilliantly instructive on the general characteristics and mental unity of a crowd, its sentiments and morality, ideas, reasoning power, imagination, opinions and much more. A must-read volume for students of history, sociology, law and psychology.
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The complete English text is available for free in PDF format HERE.
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Or (for $8.95) on Amazon: The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
- Howard Marks Quote On Contrarianism
From The Most Important Thing:…it’s not enough to bet against the crowd. Given the difficulties associated with contrarianism just mentioned, the potentially profitable recognition of divergences from consensus thinking must be based on reason and...
- Seneca Quote (solitude And The Crowd)
“Furthermore, we should often withdraw into ourselves; for mixing with persons of dissimilar natures throws into disorder our settled composure and wakens our passions anew, exacerbating whatever is weak in the mind and not properly healed. It is, however,...
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Currently the most highlighted Kindle passages from Seneca’s Letters from a Stoic. For other books, go HERE. Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time...
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Currently the most highlighted Kindle passages from Outliers: The Story of Success, By Malcolm Gladwell. For other books, go HERE. Success is the result of what sociologists like to call “accumulative advantage.”Highlighted by 1659 Kindle usersAchievement...
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While Kahneman has a wide following among people who study risk, decision-making, and other aspects of human judgment, he is not exactly a household name. Yet among many of the top thinkers in psychology, he ranks at the top of the field. -Harvard psychologist...