Why Do We All Behave In The Way We Do? By SS O’Connor

Thank you @Litpr and SS O'Connor for letting me be part of this tour and reviewing this book. I found Why do we Behave in the way we do a very interesting read that you can keep dibbing into. While I was reading this book it Open my eyes a lot on human behaviour that I knew not a lot about. This is the first book I have read in the series but I will go and look at the other books in the series. Why do we all behave in the way we do is a fascinating read and you can recognise the amount of research SS O'Connor has put into this book. It is very well-written and full of questions and facts that will keep you entertained. Enjoyble read. Out now to buy.5 stars. Blurb The Secrets of Life series is written for everyone who, frankly, needs a spot of cheering up, and will provide conversation starters for years after reading! O’Connor’s easy - going, conversational style brings an outsider’s questioning eye to the great forc es behind life. The third in the four - part series explains how game theory developed, and why it came to show us not only how humans arrive at their decisions, but why so much of the apparently bizarre behaviour of the natural world has the same mathemati cal logic to it. Instead of the confusion and chaos one might expect in life, O’Connor shows that there are profound reasons behind the choices organisms make when they interact, and how we humans refined this process through the addition of our intelligen ce and language skills. Starting with the mind - blowing new ways of thinking that Adam Smith opened the world’s eyes to, the book progresses to the 20th century — and shows how there’s a coherent rationale behind our thought processes — and how this was gradual ly revealed by scientists at a time when the very future of the world was at stake. As O’Connor unfolds the story in Why Do We All Behave In The Way We Do? , it becomes ever clearer how cooperation has evolved to be the critical force at every level of lif e. It was what built our world, and it would settle so deeply into the hardwiring of living things that it would eventually become instinctive and innate in us. Perhaps most pleasingly, game theory explains how the benefits of collaboration are bound to ra tchet upwards — and how this will inevitably lead to ever - increasing levels of moral behaviour in our societies. It is so often an accepted fact that bad people will win. And yet, as Book Three so clearly explains, collaborative societies are bound to grow, that it’s rational to forgive to overcome vendettas and feuds, and that nice folks will always win in life by coming second About the Author SS O’Connor spent 20+ years as an advertising executive before becoming a serial entrepreneur, assembler of private equity projects, investor and corpo rate strategist. He has been chairman / director of numerous public and private companies. His acclaimed novel, The Prisoner’s Dilemma, published in 2013. He lives in London and Somerset.