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5 Thought Experiments to Change Your Perspective

Short Witty Stories to Open Your Mind

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Learn how you can benefit from philosophy without boring your brains out and struggling to understand obtuse and annoying sentences.

This book is meant as a short, coffee-table-style book to bring you neat and entertaining stories to think about. While if you find a certain story and topic interesting, you will discover what we have found out so far as a people.

You will hunt for apples in an unkempt garden and think about spirituality and science. You will take a dubious happiness operation and gauge if you are happier. You will struggle to find yourself on a progressively damaged boat. Then, an enchanted book will lead you to a museum about free will and memories. Finally, you will know of a farmer who desperately needed glasses and was wrongly assured of his milking cow’s location. While you, likewise, will question your assumptions.

My goal is ambitious. For one, I want you to be entertained and also to gain actual benefits in your life. Thought experiments, or as I like to call them thought stories, entertain you. But, they also provoke you to think and, in turn, reorient. I, like many others, was lost and needed guidance. I found philosophy, and that made me find my way. I will promise you that this will help you find your way.

In this book, I will take you to the next level through witty stories. You will become an actual happier person through actual practical ways. Are your actions and choices yours? The answer might surprise you.

This book is a quick pickup to discover and meant to entertain in less than five minutes and help you discover and change yourself for the better. I feel your pain if you have tried other content before that would constitute self-help. This is a book that will present you with things that will make you improve yourself in your own way, not outright tell you what is wrong and what to do about it.

So, if you want to make yourself the person you envy today, then scroll up and listen by clicking the "buy now". I sincerely hope you will enjoy.

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This awesome book tells thought experiments as short stories & I love the feeling of learning while being entertained. I even laughed aloud a couple of times. J.H. Pii goes into SO many great topics, making it relatable without being boring. The narration was clear & it felt like your Philosophy friend explaining topics to you. He narrates it himself & has a great voice to listen to.

Chapter 1 delves into spirituality and religion. It honestly opened my eyes to the different truths we as humans live by in the modern world.

Chapter 2 speaks about happiness, but not in a typical "happiness guru" type of way, but rather it presents it at eye level and is actually something you can derive value from. I've read a lot about happiness in general, but this one was new for me. It's not only witty, but also makes you question things and reflect on what happiness actually is.

Chapter 3 helps you to understand who you are and how we categorize things; i.e. what we do to ascribe identities to yourself, others, and things.

Chapter 4 goes over the age-old favorite question of all Philosophers, and that is Free Will. I'm not a Philosophy expert, but my mind was actually blown in this chapter.

Chapter 5 covers knowledge and truth. I got a new perspective on how and why the scientific method is so revolutionary...this chapter will also make you crave chocolate cake. You'll understand when you read it ;)

Overall I'm quite glad that I found this book, would definitely recommend.

Top quality, An excellent intro to Philosophy!

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I really enjoyed this audiobook as it covered some interesting subjects.

It makes you see things in life through a different perspective, much like the Aztecs not understanding why we like gold so much and we cannot even eat it. It is all a matter of judging what you see through your experiences.

It is certainly true that when things are well in our lives we tend to see the world through a happy prism and we are constantly pursuing happiness. This task is really never finished.

I appreciated that we need to seek gratitude for the things that are good and that we have in our lives. Not everything is bad and it is again just a matter of perspective.

Seeing life through different perspectives

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As an avid reader of the niche I’ve been fed up lately with clinical psychologists lecturing you almost like they’re “talking down to you” using all these terms I have to look up. This book had none of that. Extremely easy to read with a conversational tone that I love. All the stories made it a joy to listen to, really opened my mind!

My fav self help book in a while

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There are five ideas (and five stars from me) in this book. All are about what it means to be human and how to be humans together. It is cliché but in this book’s case it is true and so far away from cliché that it is refreshingly funny.

I got to be honest, I was unsure about the title – it seemed very click-baity. I get a title is there to sell the book, but I feel like this one has more of a soul. I don’t know what I am saying. I read a lot, but not much of what I read are books that are funny. They can be profound sure or give the air that the writer knows what they are talking about, but so few books are witty and likely because it is hard to pull off without detaching it from the messages. 5 thoughts manage to both be witty and seem like the writer knows about what they are talking about. Kudos.

Each chapter holds one common thought experiment. A neat idea since not all people will have the same interests. One could like the battle between science and religion, another on Free Will. This has both and then some.

In fear of sounding cliché again I am going to reread it. Because sometimes the writing is just comfort food that I didn’t get to stop and ask myself the very literal questions asked in each chapter.

Outstanding work.

This book took me by surprise

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Very informative and well researched. This book speaks to people on all levels and I do recommend that everybody should get a copy. Will be looking out for more books from this Author.

I thoroughly enjoyed it.

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