Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes
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What’s it about?
A missionary's thirty-year immersion with the Amazonian Pirahã—a people with no numbers, no time, no recursion in language—shatters his faith and rewrites our understanding of thought and happiness.
You’ll learn
- Language shapes how we think
- Happiness needs no possessions
- Present-moment living is a choice
- Culture can lack recursion