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The Things We Love: How Our Passions Connect Us and Make Us Who We Are by Aaron
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- ISBN
- 9781668617106
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Things We Love : How Our Passions Connect Us and Make Us Who We Are
- Publisher
- Little Brown & Company
- Genre
- Psychology, Business & Economics
- Topic
- Marketing / General, Consumer Behavior, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
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A revealing investigation of the secret, tangled emotional relationships people have with things --drawing on cutting-edge findings from the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and marketing. Books, baseball cards, ceramic figurines, art, iPhones, clothing, cars, music, dolls, furniture, and even nature itself. If you're like most people, at some point in your life you've found yourself indulging in a love affair with some thing that brings you immense joy, comfort, or fulfillment. Why is it that we so often feel intense passion for objects? What does this tendency tell us about ourselves and our society?In The Things We Love , Dr. Aaron Ahuvia presents astonishing discoveries that prove we are far less "rational" than we think when it comes to our possessions and hobbies. In fact, we have passionate relationships with the things we love, and these relationships are driven by influences deep within our culture and our biology. Some of our passions are sudden, obsessive, and fleeting; others are devoted and lifelong affairs. Some turn dark: we become hoarders, or would prefer to destroy certain objects rather than let anyone else own them. And as technology improves, becoming increasingly addictive, one wonders: might our lives become so dominated by our emotional ties to things that we lose interest in other people?Packed with fascinating case studies, scientific analysis, and takeaways for living in a modern and ever-so-material world, The Things We Love offers a truly original and insightful look into our love for inanimate objects -- and how better understanding these relationships can enrich and improve our lives.
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Publisher
Little Brown & Company
ISBN-10
1668617102
ISBN-13
9781668617106
eBay Product ID (ePID)
7057290770
Product Key Features
Publication Year
2022
Topic
Marketing / General, Consumer Behavior, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
Book Title
Things We Love : How Our Passions Connect Us and Make Us Who We Are
Language
English
Genre
Psychology, Business & Economics
Format
Compact Disc
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5.7in
Item Width
5.2in
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Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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People often spend money on things in pursuit of happiness, which often leaves us unfulfilled. Dr. Ahuvia's work spans social psychology, neuroscience, business, and technology to help us explore our love of things in order to anchor on purposeful relationships with ourselves and others. A meaningful read., We're all living in a material world. But while we're surrounded by things, we have a lot less of a sense of how those things make us who we are. In this exciting and engaging read, Dr. Ahuvia synthesizes recent discoveries from psychology, neuroscience, biology, and marketing to help us better understand our things and ourselves., Who knew there was so much more to our relationships with things than meets the eye? Dr. Ahuvia brilliantly illuminates the science and psychology that underlies our affection for certain treasured possessions, and in the process, he reveals fascinating insights into what makes each one of us tick., The Things We Love is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand what it means to be human in the modern world. Dr. Ahuvia makes a compelling case that who we are has much more to do with what we love than we might expect., In this remarkably insightful and well-written book, Aaron Ahuvia deftly weaves cutting-edge research with fascinating anecdotes to explain why we love the things we do and what those preferences say about who we are. In so doing, he expands our understanding of human nature. The Things We Love is a tour de force., In the modern world, we are renegotiating our relationship with 'stuff.' Conversations on the topic have veered toward minimalism, tidiness, and environmental impact. Ahuvia offers a fresh angle by introducing the idea that we love stuff. As much as this is a book about cars, lamps, and photo albums, it is a book about how we fall in love. Drawing on fascinating and seldomly reported research, Ahuvia teaches us not only about our belongings but about ourselves. Speaking of love and stuff, you will love this book!, Love is the one emotion that keeps us hopeful and sane in a world of chaos. Aaron Ahuvia writes beautifully about this wonderful state of being in all of its manifestations. Read and learn how your self-concept is so girded and gifted by your love of things., As Aaron Ahuvia makes clear, even the most monogamously minded of us are actually engaged in multiple relationships--just not with people. Instead, we extend our human capacity for love to objects, activities, and animals, from our smartphones to our passions to our pets. The Things We Love is a fascinating exploration of what it means to love something--and what our non-human relationships say about us., I read this book with great interest and found it extremely well written, entertaining, and well grounded in research. Aaron Ahuvia gives us a fascinating, rich, lively and yet profound insight on how we can fall in love with the world and bring a sense of fulfillment in our life. How the love of nature, among others, can generate a sense of wonderment and respect. As a Buddhist, I was particularly interested in his discussions of how craving for things that we don't need, which modern marketing makes us desire, often leads to entanglement in further craving and may end up in an environmental disaster.
Dewey Decimal
306.487
Edition Description
Unabridged Edition
Copyright Date
2022
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