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The Ten Types of Human by Dexter Dias5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() I emerged from this book feeling better about almost everything. His combination of rigour, idealism and pragmatism makes fertile terrain out of the most appalling battlefields. Dias's work as a human rights lawyer gives him this instinctive, urgent belief that all injustices, all catastrophes, exploitations, acts of violence, all human misery can be taken on and overcome, somehow, if the right people try and there are enough of them. And yet that's not what's so extraordinary about it: storytellers are rare, but not vanishingly so. His interviewees are always people, the most vivid flesh and blood, never case studies. ![]() Yet the main body of the book, the bits that transfixed and stayed with me, stopped me sleeping but got me up in the morning, were the human stories that Dias has travelled the world to find. Uplifting and indispensable., "In defining and describing his human types, he draws on lab experiments, the animal kingdom, and all the literature you might expect from a modern behaviourist. ![]() Uplifting and indispensable." -Howard Cunnell, author, Fathers and Sons, Dexter Dias is on the side of the angels, who turn out to be us, the people. It's inspiring and essential." -Charles Duhigg, "Dexter Dias is on the side of the angels, who turn out to be us, the people. " The Ten Types of Human is a fantastic piece of non-fiction, mixing astonishing real-life cases with the latest scientific research to provide a guide to who we really are. ![]()
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