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When I first got this, I thought it was a standard autobiography of a successful business person, but that's the least interesting part of her life.

She's a refugee, a feminist icon (hate that term but don't know what else to call it) and the parent of a profoundly disabled son. The last part is heartbreaking. It's all told in a very honest forthright way.

I didn't love the writing style, aside from that I would have given this a 5. Still well worth a read.

This is one angle on how the world is the way it is, but it's mind blowing and convincing. It's honestly changed how I see the world.

Most of the way through this. This book has a very clear angle, about how cultural inheritance/evolution is the primary thing that shaped how the world works. Even in terms of individual psychology and brain structure.

He goes into clear detail about how different 'WIERD' or western people are to other humans, and how lots of the research on a "normal person's" psychology is really a well educated westerner's psychology. He then breaks down how the history of western europe led to the 'WIERD' people that now dominate the world.

Lots of citations and research and graphs to back up his assertions, with a reassuring amount of admitted gaps in his findings. That makes me trust more than other pop psychology books.