A world famous writer, Paul Sheldon, is kidnapped by his greatest fan (Annie Wilkes). Paul is held captive in her home and forced to write another novel continuing his renowned Misery series. He faces excruciating torture and torment, while also crafting “the best work he’s ever made.”

Housel explains how a lot of personal finance has to do with our behavior and psychology rather than simple math and logic. He uses stories, studies, and analogies to convey his points on how we should make our own financial decisions.

These first 6 minutes of the Donda Listening Party when the song “24” played, is my closest experience with what author Jonathan Haidt calls, the “Hive Switch.” This might come as a surprise, but everyone has a “Hive Switch” inside of them, unlocking it just requires certain conditions.

In it’s essence, Crime and Punishment, is a murder mystery story told from the murder’s point of view. Throughout the 576 pages we see our main character, Raskolnikov, commit a crime and then suffer his own physiological punishment. This all culminates into Literature’s greatest psychological game of cat and mouse.

Gladwell explains how the social rules wired in our brains to help understand our friends betray us when talking to strangers. He uses numerous historical examples and social experiments to prove the true difficulty of talking to strangers and the grave consequences that can come from these errors.

At its core Piranesi, is a study on how solitude and isolation affects the human psyche.