Robert Sapolsky, Intellectual Heavyweight | Model P and Mayor Ford | Korean Kindness
I marinated at Stanford for four years and had the incredible luck to observe, learn, and unlearn from many distinguished speakers. Right now the biggest regret I have about my time at Stanford is not to have taken or sat in a class or even a lunch talk that included Robert Sapolsky. Some of the leading public intellectuals of our time include Neil deGrasse Tyson, Stephen Pinker, Malcolm Gladwell, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Yuval Noah Harari. Robert Sapolsky should be as well known as any of those thinkers, and I believe anyone who reads his works will find it immensely accessible, insightful, and helpful to better understand humanity.
Sapolsky is best known for Behave: The BIology of Humans at our Best and Worst but I encourage readers to check out two of his earlier works: "A Primate's Memoir" and "Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers." The former is excellent and one that I really enjoyed while listening to it as an audiobook. The latter is an "acclaimed guide to stress, stress-related diseases, and coping." And it will shape how you think about managing stress, Type-A people, poor people and stress, and stress and aging. If Daily Pnut was a book club, this is a book that I would heavily advocate the group read. Although we have linked the books to Amazon, we encourage readers to check out the books from their library.
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