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THE ADAPTED SELF Book 2

By Ruth Ellerby · 4 parts · 4 h 18 min · English

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The brain that wants is the brain our ancestors had; the world it wants in is new. The second book of The Adapted Self follows personality into appetite: the balance of pleasure and pain that resets with every reward, the difference between wanting a thing and wanting to be known, and the way an old wound becomes a hunger nothing within reach can fill. It moves from the chemistry of romance to a drugified world carried in every pocket, through the respectable addictions of work, wealth and perfection, to tolerance, secrecy and self-sabotage. It ends on what can be done: pleasure that is earned, the sweet spot between too little and too much, and binding the self you are to the self you want.

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  1. Part 01

    1:20:16

  2. Part 02

    1:18:07

  3. Part 03

    0:50:58

  4. Part 04

    0:48:49

Books in this series

  1. THE ADAPTED SELF Book 1

    5 parts · 5 h 19 min

  2. THE ADAPTED SELF Book 2

    4 parts · 4 h 18 min

  3. THE ADAPTED SELF Book 3

    4 parts · 4 h 33 min