To study a thing you have to have some idea about it. Besides, Greek philosophy was unmatched precisely because it was not so regimented. Will Durant:pic.twitter.com/WvLvbq6oy4
Maybe psychology would make better progress if we all just stopped doing 'research' for a year and read all the classic novels & great books that we should have read in college. Compile & systematize their insights rather than ignoring the accumulated genius of history.pic.twitter.com/iYpFB2wxUW
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LOL, literally. I've _never_ heard a researcher give a talk that started 'We thought this was a cool insight from famous novelist X, and we decided to test it....'
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Yo, wow didn't expect to see Henry James books on twitter. I've read The Turn of the Screw, plus amazing movie adaptation in 'The Others'. Portrait of the Lady nice soundtrack by Wojciech Kilar. This tweet made my day, thank you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnVLUWfpXEE …
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The Henry James ones are actually a pretty good place to start, IMHO.
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Edwin Shneidman, the founder of American suicidology, said that a lot could be learned about suicide by reading Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, and The Awakening.
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Strongly agree, we would not just add better questions,perhaps we would also reduce the naiveté with which we face some problems in the field.
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Same goes for the Aspbergers’d-out culture of tech / Silicon Valley. Basic (& even advanced!) emotional intelligence is available in novels, people.
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