세계관을 바꾼 마음을 넓히는 책들

### 세상을 보는 방식을 완전히 바꾼 과소평가된 책 9권
* 티모시 와인가드의 '모기'는 **모기 매개 질병이 인류의 역사를 어떻게 형성해왔으며, 과거 사망자의 30~40%**를 발생시켰는지를 보여줍니다.
* 🔬 스튜어트 리치의 '과학 소설'은 **연구의 70% 이상이 안정적으로 복제되지 못하는 사회과학의 복제 위기**를 폭로합니다.
* 🗳 브라이언 카플란의 '합리적 유권자의 신화'는 **더 많은 민주주의가 항상 더 좋다는 생각**에 도전하며 교육받은 엘리트와의 균형을 주장합니다.
* 💀 어니스트 베커의 "죽음에 대한 거부"는 **죽음에 대한 두려움이 인간의 행동을 어떻게 이끌고 "불멸 프로젝트"를 만들어내는지** 탐구합니다.
* 📺 "미디어의 이해"는 우리가 정보를 인식하고 상호 작용하는 방식을 형성하는 **"미디어가 곧 메시지"**라는 개념을 소개합니다.
* 📚 윌과 아리엘 듀란트의 '역사의 교훈'은 11권으로 구성된 '문명 이야기'에서 **12가지 교훈을 추출하여 단 100페이지에 심오한 통찰력**을 제공합니다.
* 🔬 토마스 쿤의 "과학 혁명의 구조"는 과학적 진보에 대한 선형적 관점에 도전하며 **주요 혁신에서 외부인의 역할**을 강조합니다.
* 🌍 조셉 헨리히의 '세상에서 가장 이상한 사람들'은 서구 사회가 독특하게 발전한 이유를 **가톨릭 결혼법과 연결**하여 탐구합니다.
* 🌍 "마이클 셸렌버거의 '아포칼립스 네버'는 기후 변화에 대한 반대의 견해를 제시하며 **경고론에 반대하고 보다 낙관적인 관점**을 제시합니다.

'모기'와 '아포칼립스 네버'와 같은 책은 그의 세계관을 크게 변화시키며 독특한 관점을 제시했습니다.

- There are some books
that are so mind-blowing that they change how you see
yourself and the world forever. In this video, I'm gonna
share nine underrated books that completely changed
how I see the world and made me a better person for it. And hopefully, they'll
do the same for you too. (upbeat piano music) This may be the strangest
history book I've ever read, but it's still completely
changed how I see the world. The Mosquito by Timothy
Winegard takes something that you normally never
think about, the mosquito, and shows how it influences
almost everything you think about. Did you know that for
most of human history, roughly 30 to 40% of
all deaths were caused by mosquito-borne illnesses? Mosquitoes, that is,
malaria, typhoid, dengue, dominated social concerns,
political decisions, and the outcomes of some of
the most consequential wars.

in human history. From the fall of the Roman Empire to the American Revolution,
to the slave trade, mosquitoes, and the constant
struggle to avoid them was at the center of it all. We take it for granted today, but so much of human history was dictated by the reality of disease. And nothing carried disease
quite like mosquitoes did. It's one of the most fascinating
books I've ever read. It's mind-blowing and a ton of fun. (upbeat music) This book is so important because most laypeople don't realize that there is a massive
replication crisis going on in the social sciences. To the point that in some
fields such as economics, psychology, sociology, and others, more than 70% of the research
does not replicate reliably when tested by other scientists. This is a huge problem. Ritchie does a great job of explaining not only how so much research gets fudged but also the incentives within the peer-review system behind it.

It's a hugely important
book for anyone who wants to take scientific inquiry seriously. It changed how I approach
all the data I come across, and has made me far more
skeptical as a result. (elegant music) There are not many books
that I can say change my political views, but this
is certainly one of them. If you're a democracy-loving
Westerner like I am, you kind of have this
romantic image of democracy. That the more power and
voice we give to the people, the better off we will all be. If that's what you believe, then this book will ruin
your Sunday afternoon. They show an abundance of
data and examples suggesting that in many cases, greater
amounts of democracy results in worse outcomes for populations. Why? Because most people are either, A, dumb as a fucking tree stump, or B, too busy to educate themselves on the plethora of issues
going on in their community.

This isn't to say that democracy doesn't work. As Churchill said, it's clearly better than all the other forms of government. The problem is that you need to balance democracy with a layer of highly-educated experts and elites who can actually get shit done. It turns out that much in the same way that there needs to be checks and balances between different branches of government, there's also a necessary check and balance between educated elites and democratic populism. Check it out. (melancholy music) This is one of my favorite books ever. I believe I've read it three times. - [Disembodied Voice] Nerd. - Becker was an obscure philosophy professor who found out that he had terminal cancer, and on his death bed wrote this book, The Denial of Death. His argument is simple. Death terrifies us. It terrifies us so much that we unconsciously seek out ways that we can metaphorically live forever.

Let's call these our immortality projects. Now, immortality projects are why people are driven to run for government, to write books, to have children, and build statues. It's why they become so invested in charitable causes, political conflicts, and creating artifacts of their lives. It's the ego's way of creating something in the world that will outlast itself. Now, these immortality projects are what give our lives a sense of meaning and importance. They are necessary for remaining psychologically healthy and stable. And when our immortality projects clash with other people's immortality projects, war and violence ensues because we are literally willing to die so that our immortality projects may survive. It's a real mind bender. Check it out. (bright music) This book was monumentally influential in the sixties, seventies, and eighties as television rose to cultural prominence. I think today, in the social media age.

it deserves another round of publicity, as its insights are
more relevant than ever. McLuhan's big insight is
also his most famous quote: The medium is the message. McLuhan argued that the content of media is mostly inconsequential. Whether you're watching cooking
shows, murder mysteries, or soap operas, it likely has
far less of a cognitive effect than the media in which you consume it. This is because every medium interfaces with our brains in
distinct ways that train us how to consume information
and perceive the world. Back in the sixties and
seventies, McLuhan's observation was that television and radio
were passive forms of media. You turned on the TV and sat there waiting for what it showed you. Whereas with reading, you
had to actively seek out what to consume. TV encouraged your critical
thinking to turn off while reading required it to
comprehend the information in front of you. McLuhan argued that
the nature of the media

that organizes society determines the character of the people within it. I would give anything to hear what McLuhan would say about social media today, but rereading this book, I can't help but feel that the way social media caters to each of us individually, enveloping us in our own distorted form of reality perfectly suited to our tastes and fears, it must be driving a kind of subtle loneliness and narcissism that we have never faced before. And speaking of being shaped by our technology, this video is brought to you by Grammarly, the AI assistant designed to make you sound and look smarter than you actually are. My team and I used Grammarly for years to catch errors, misusage of words, and find subtle ways to improve our writing and marketing. But recently, Grammarly has gone even further and rolled out a full-blown AI writing assistant to help you craft memos, important emails

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to take your writing to the next level. Now, back to the books. (bright music) Will Durant spent his entire
career writing an 11-volume set of books called The
Story of Civilization. It took him almost 40 years to finish it.

and clocking in over 13,000 pages, it starts in ancient Mesopotamia and works its way all the
way up to the 20th century. But upon completing the set, Durant wanted to write
a small book summarizing in 100 pages everything he learned about humanity and civilization. The result was this book,
The Lessons of History. The Lessons of History lays out 12 seemingly straightforward
lessons with wide implications. It's the sort of stuff
that strikes you as obvious once you read it, but at the same time, you never thought about it that way. Stuff like the importance
and determinants of geography on the fates of entire empires, the way technology dictates geopolitics, the ubiquity of prejudice and competition both within and between societies. It is a lifetime worth
of study all compressed into just a hundred pages of wisdom. It's rare that such a thing happens, and you are missing out
if you don't check it out.

(frenzied music) Scientific knowledge doesn't progress the way you think it does. This classic was written back in the 1960s, and it immediately made waves. It's about the messy ways in which knowledge progresses and how scientific advancements don't happen the way we assume they do. - Whew! (explosion booms) - Kuhn points out that while small, iterative improvements in our knowledge come within our conventional systems, large breakthroughs in knowledge typically come from total outsiders who have no stakes in the current institutions. As a result, these huge leaps of progress are typically ridiculed and suppressed at first, only to slowly win out over the long run. I love this book because I think it applies to human organizations in general, not just science. People who are rewarded by conventional wisdom will unconsciously try to preserve it and prevent large advancements because that would undermine their current power structures. Meanwhile, outcasts and outsiders will take long shots

at drastically remaking
the conventional wisdom, mainly because they have nothing to lose. The majority of these long shots will fail, and they will look like total crackpots, but occasionally, just occasionally, you get an Isaac Newton or an Einstein or a Churchill or Lincoln. (upbeat music) The WEIRDest People in the
World by Joseph Henrich. WEIRD, in this case, stands
for Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. And as Henrich notes, weird
people are psychometrically quite different from
the rest of the world. We have different personalities, different cognitive behaviors, even some neurological differences. Now, Henrich spends 600 pages
asking the question, why? Why Europe? In the Middle Ages, Europe
was a backwater compared to the Middle East and China. Why did industrialization in
the Enlightenment happen here and not anywhere else? Why did Europe become so rich
and prosperous and different? Now, the answer will
probably surprise you.

It has to do with marriage
laws in the Catholic church. See, the early popes did not
want kings and dukes of Europe to consolidate into new empires, so they passed strict marriage laws. You couldn't marry within your family. You couldn't take more than one wife, and you couldn't get divorced. This hamstrung the
feudal lords of the time, preventing them from consolidating powers like monarchs and emperors
did in the rest of the world. The result was a geopolitically
unique, highly competitive, industrious region with
more genetic diversity and economic mobility than ever before. It's an absolutely stunning read, both in its scope and its argument. I don't know if it's completely true, but in terms of books that
have made me think about shit and see things in a new way,
this is way up on the list. (bright music) Like most people in my generation, I grew up with an apocalyptic assumption

about climate change. - Our atmosphere seems
to be getting warmer. - The warming will continue. - The hottest month on record. - [[Narrator] Global Warming. - Global warming.
- Global warming. - If anything, it always seemed
the reality was far worse than what most people believed, and I never came across an intelligent and informed argument
otherwise, until this book, Apocalypse Never by
Michael Shellenberger. Shellenberger is a former climate activist who has traveled all
over the world learning and helping environmental causes. And this book is essentially
an argument for everyone to chill out, no pun intended. It's not as bad as we think. There is hope, and the alarmism
and apocalyptic rhetoric is likely counterproductive. Again, another book that
I'm sure not everything is 100% true, but it's the
first time I was ever exposed to a viewpoint about climate
change that was both smart, well-researched, and optimistic.

And that is certainly something worth checking out. All right, that's it. Links to all of these books are in the description. And let me know what books have changed how you see the world in the comments. Let's all blow our minds together. Okay, that sounded kind of sexual, but you get what I mean. (bright music)

9 Underrated Books That Will Make You a Smarter Person

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독자의 관점을 바꾼 과소평가된 책 9권

티모시 와인가드의 '더 모기'는 질병 발생부터 전쟁의 결과에 이르기까지 모기가 인류 역사에 미친 심오한 영향을 조명하며 놀라운 관점을 제시합니다.

스튜어트 리치의 '과학 소설'은 사회과학의 복제 위기를 다루며 연구의 결함과 그 뒤에 숨은 인센티브를 설명하여 궁극적으로 데이터 분석에 대한 독자의 접근 방식을 변화시킵니다.

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사회에서 민주주의, 엘리트, 불멸 프로젝트의 역할

민주주의는 고학력 전문가 및 엘리트 계층과 균형을 이루어야 효과적으로 업무를 수행할 수 있습니다.

죽음에 대한 부정은 사람들이 무의식적으로 불멸의 프로젝트를 추구하여 삶에 의미를 부여하고 종종 다른 사람들과 갈등을 일으킨다고 주장합니다.

다양한 형태의 미디어가 정보를 소비하고 세상을 인식하는 방식을 형성하는 소셜 미디어 시대에 "미디어가 곧 메시지"라는 마셜 맥루한의 통찰은 그 어느 때보다 더 적절합니다.

소셜 미디어와 기술이 사회에 미치는 영향

소셜 미디어는 미묘한 외로움과 나르시시즘을 조장하고, 개인의 취향과 두려움에 맞춰 사람들의 현실을 형성하는 것으로 여겨집니다.

인공지능 작문 도우미 Grammarly는 의사소통 능력을 향상시키고 작문 제안을 제공하여 사람들이 자신을 표현하는 방식에 잠재적으로 영향을 미칠 수 있는 능력으로 주목받고 있습니다.

'역사의 교훈'은 평생에 걸쳐 공부해야 할 내용을 100페이지에 압축하여 인류와 문명에 대한 폭넓은 함의와 함께 간단한 교훈을 제공한다는 평을 받고 있습니다.

1960년대에 출간된 이 책은 과학 발전에 대한 전통적인 관점에 도전하며, 주요한 혁신은 종종 외부인으로부터 나온다고 주장합니다.

이 책의 개념은 기성 인물이 큰 변화에 저항하는 인간 조직에도 적용될 수 있는 것으로 여겨집니다.

"세상에서 가장 이상한 사람들"은 서구, 교육받은, 산업화된, 부유한, 민주적인 사회의 독특한 심리학적 차이를 탐구하며 유럽의 번영이 초기 교황이 부과한 엄격한 결혼법에 기인한다고 설명합니다.

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이 책은 기후 변화에 대한 잘 연구되고 지적인 관점을 제시하며 환경 문제에 대한 접근 방식에서 희망과 절제를 옹호합니다.