The Evolving Self: A Psychology for the Third Millennium Audiobook (Free)

In this wise, humane inquiry, Csikszentmihalyi ( Flow: The Mindset of Optimal Encounter ) argues that genetically programmed behaviors that once helped human beings adapt and multiply right now threaten our survival. These traits consist of obsessions with meals and sex, dependence on pleasure, excessive rationality and a tendency to focus on the harmful. A University or college of Chicago psychology professor, the author also believes we should free our minds of social illusions such as ethnocentric superiority or recognition with one’s possessions. He urges listeners to find ways to reduce the oppression, exploitation and inequality that are woven in to the fabric of culture. Further, he wants us to control the direction of human advancement by pursuing challenging activities that result in greater complexity while opposting chaos and conformity. Each chapter concludes with self-help questions and mental exercises made to help listeners apply the insights of this literate manifesto to their daily lives.