The Blank Slate · What Did They Read?

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How to Change Your Life, Solved

SOLVED with Mark Manson, 3 June 2026. The book comes up at 1 hr 13 min in.

A speaker calls Steven Pinker's The Blank Slate a 'fantastic' 600-page work that marshals research to dismantle blank-slate ideology. They single out its coverage of twin studies—identical twins raised apart who turn out remarkably similar in behaviour—as probably some of the research that most changed their own personal views on human nature and human behaviour.

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