This book will provide you with tools that help you regain control of your mind through critical thinking. Their book is a primer on how to survive in an age of ubiquitous propaganda – and it’s great fun to read. The book lets you know about the seemingly convincing tricks that are used on us and how we need to have control over the brain to not fall for it. It deftly exposes the immoral practices of marketing, politics, and big tech in influencing our thoughts and attitudes. You could say this book is frightening - but it makes you realise how you are probably being manipulated, deliberately, most of the time.

The significance of identifying these psychological tricks and reclaiming control over our own brains is one of the book's main messages. However, I knew many of the examples given in the book leading to a perception on my part of unoriginality. If you want to learn how you're propagandised and manipulated day in day out, this book is a must-read. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Free Your Mind: The New World of Manipulation and How to Resist It written by Laura Dodsworth which was published in Expected publication August 30, 2023. Explained in very simple terms using some helpful analogies and metaphors I found this book filled with insights and useful strategies to counter some of the methods used to manipulate people.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. My first journey will be to cemetery where I will tell Uncle Ahmed to get up and move his lazy arse, covid is just a cold, and avoiding infection is just mind control. In summary, I had to wade through lots of the author's hot-button views on minority issues, for example, Toxic Masculinity, Covid Denying, Sex kinks, and Drag Show Story Time, when I just wanted to understand methods of pushing a narrative being used by all sides. To access you ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. Their book offers as an engaging field guide for navigating the information battlefield and revealing the covert strategies employed to sway our opinions and behavior.

It does push a number of agendas along the lines of X/Twitter hot button issues which is sad because if you can get past those you do get to some useful information. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.During the pandemic, governments worldwide deployed sophisticated behavioral and psychological techniques. This is a very thoughtful book with wonderfully presented facts about how we, all of us, can be and are "hoodwinked" into thinking we are in control but actually are not! They strike a mix between analysis and understandable examples so that readers from various backgrounds can find the book engaging. Free Your Mind is an instant classic, full of wisdom about what it means to try and hang onto our humanity amidst the clamour of modern life.