Free Your Mind: The must-read expert guide on how to identify techniques to influence you and how to resist them

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She is the author of the two instant Sunday Times Bestsellers, 'Free Your Mind: The new world of manipulation and how to resist it' (2023) and 'A State of Fear: How the UK government weaponised fear during the Covid-19 pandemic’ (2021).

Heräämisen ensi askeleita ovat harhaluulojen ja faktojen erottaminen toisistaan, jollainen vaatii jonkin verran omaa ajattelua ja erilaisten ilmiöiden pohtimista eri puolilta sekä myös metakognititiivisia taitoja, jolloin kykenemme itse pohtimaan, miksi toimimme ja ajattelemme tietyllä tavalla, ja mihin ja miksi periaatteemme ja arvomme perustuvat johonkin tiettyyn perustaan. This enlightening and thought-provoking book is a must-read that helps in understanding the complexities in this world. Tällöin pitäisi yrittää herätellä itseään kohtaamaan reaalitodellisuus mahdollisimmanobjektiivisesti, tulla tietoisiksi omista ajatusvinoumista ja pohtia, mihin omat uskomukset maailmasta ja sen tapahtumista perustuvat. There are so many books teaching how to manipulate and control others, it’s refreshing and valuable to have a book which provides a manual for resistance. I've read Laura Dodsworth's earlier book A State of Fear which was excellent so I thought this would be interesting too.They strike a mix between analysis and understandable examples so that readers from various backgrounds can find the book engaging. All together a humane and timely work which deserves to be read by anyone who values free speech, free thought and freedom. Advances in neuroscience, behavioural science and psychology have brought insights into the mind that make it seem increasingly capable of being manipulated. The significance of identifying these psychological tricks and reclaiming control over our own brains is one of the book's main messages. Mediaviihteen suurkuluttajan on hyvä olla tietoinen, että usein hauskoissa hupailuohjelmissa ja TikTok-videoissa on monenlaisia vaikuttamiskeinoja ja propagandapyrkimyksiä.

This isn't just a scare story about mind control by the state and others - each chapter ends with simple "rules" for readers to put into practice. I'm sure some will like that style of narration, but for me, I couldn't bear it and have had to give up. By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file.

As an academic who has also been an activist, he wants to replace the idea that thought is about privately ‘interpreting the world’, as suggested by Rodin’s Thinker, with the idea that its purpose is to change the world and that ‘the freest thought is social, not individual’. Previously lead psychologist at Cambridge Analytica, he is now a part-time lecturer and runs several data consultancies. The penetration of the internet into every aspect of our lives has been accompanied by data harvesting on an extraordinary scale, enabling corporations and states to send us propaganda designed to target our personal weak spots.