Rush
Author: Buchholz, Todd G.
ISBN: 9780452297951
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 31 Jul 2012
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback / softback
Plt;bPgt;Relaxation makes us stupid.Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;You think that downtime will make you happy. You may even dream about getting out of the rat race for good. But Todd BuchholzP#8212;a former White House director of economic policy, award-winning teacher at Harvard, hedge fund director, and co-producer of a Tony Award-winning Broadway hit showP#8212;wants you to know that youP#8217;re wrong. ItP#8217;s the race that delivers the rush. So forget about retirement, zen retreats, and making everyone feel like a winner; human beings are hard-wired to compete. Interweaving entertaining stories and cutting-edge research from neuroeconomics to evolutionary biology to Renaissance art to General Motors, Buchholz draws the counterintuitiveP#8212;yet wholly convincingP#8212;conclusion that competition has not only made us taller and smarter, itP#8217;s what we love and need.
ISBN: 9780452297951
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 31 Jul 2012
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback / softback
Plt;bPgt;Relaxation makes us stupid.Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;You think that downtime will make you happy. You may even dream about getting out of the rat race for good. But Todd BuchholzP#8212;a former White House director of economic policy, award-winning teacher at Harvard, hedge fund director, and co-producer of a Tony Award-winning Broadway hit showP#8212;wants you to know that youP#8217;re wrong. ItP#8217;s the race that delivers the rush. So forget about retirement, zen retreats, and making everyone feel like a winner; human beings are hard-wired to compete. Interweaving entertaining stories and cutting-edge research from neuroeconomics to evolutionary biology to Renaissance art to General Motors, Buchholz draws the counterintuitiveP#8212;yet wholly convincingP#8212;conclusion that competition has not only made us taller and smarter, itP#8217;s what we love and need.
