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The Overweight Brain - A Politics for the People Conversation with Lois Holzman

The Overweight Brain – A Politics for the People Conversation with Lois Holzman

On Sunday, December 8th, Politics for the People members from X states joined Cathy Stewart and author Lois Holzman to discuss her book The Overweight Brain: How our obsession with knowing keeps us from getting smart enough to make a better world.

To find out more about Dr. Holzman, listen to Cathy’s introduction.

Cathy kicks off the call with Dr. Holzman by inquiring about the…

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Reader's Forum -- Catana Barnes & Jessie Fields

Reader's Forum — Catana Barnes & Jessie Fields

Catana Barnes

The Overweight Brainby Lois Holzman is the best book I have read in a very long time! I found what I experienced by reading the book to be very freeing. I related with chapter 5 the most because I was labeled difficult and oppositional in school. The fact of the matter was that I was very bored and the school couldn’t figure out what to do with me. More interestingly is the…

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Reader's Forum -- Al Bell

Reader’s Forum — Al Bell

I have been waiting a long time for this book.

When I was at UCLA a few years ago (circa 1953), I took an elective class from Professor Frederic P. Woellner about education and it changed my life. I still have the two-page paper I wrote for him that revealed me to myself. The question posed by him was: Would you rather be an animal of the the land or the sea? My answer had two parts; 1)…

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Reader's Forum -- Jennifer Bullock

Reader's Forum — Jennifer Bullock

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

— Albert Einstein

Holding on to the belief that the happenings of our lives are knowable can get us into deep trouble”

— Lois Holzman

Most of us agree that the way we are living with one another can be stuck at best, destructive at worst. This entrenchment is most obvious in our political…

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Reader's Forum -- Steve Hough

Reader’s Forum — Steve Hough

Having taken electives in psychology and philosophy in college, I wasn’t sure if I wanted to read Lois Holzman’s book. While I try to read as many book club selections as possible, I was going to rationalize passing on this one. My current political activism was consuming much of my time. My wife sometimes says too much of my time. I didn’t need another book to read right now.

Would such a…

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Reader's Forum -- Julia Hemsworth

Reader’s Forum — Julia Hemsworth

Young And Dumb

I went to Staten Island Tech, a math and science high school that boasted a perfect graduation rate and acceptance into top colleges around the country. They told the students that we were special, that we were destined to do great things and be wildly successful, especially with their help. I had to take AP level courses and engineering classes because that looked good to…

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Happy Thanksgiving from The Overweight Brain at P4P

Happy Thanksgiving from The Overweight Brain at P4P

Illustration by Alice Rydel *** Politics for the People Conference Call With Author Dr. Lois Holzman Sunday, December 8th 7pm EST Call in number: 605-313-5156 Passcode: 767775# ***

The Overweight Brain

How our obsession with knowing

keeps us from getting smart enough

to make a better world

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Reader's Forum -- Frank Fear

Reader’s Forum — Frank Fear

When

Conventionality

Stifles and

Unconventionality

Stalls

For me (perhaps for you, too), there’s always a passage in a reading that stands out—the ‘it’ of the text, so to speak—words that encapsulate the essence of what’s written. In The Overweight Brain, I found my ‘it’ on p. 149:

Science needs to grow. Knowing took science and us this far. But just like everyone…

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