HACKER Q&A
📣 sidyapa

How do I self learn psychology?


Interesting thought I came across recently : "If you are building a business (which is for humans to use obviously), you'll have an unfair advantage knowing about human psychology"

If I am to start learning about human behaviour, where should I be starting and what path should I be taking?

  👤 kleer001 Accepted Answer ✓
Here's what I liked, science from an experienced practitioner and teacher. The 2017 lectures on the Five factor model of personality:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL22J3VaeABQApSdW8X71I...

Also Never split the difference by Chris Voss for negotiating, practical psychology.

👤 maverickJ
Hi,

You can start by learning about yourself. This article here https://leveragethoughts.substack.com/p/three-actionable-ins... can set you on your path.

Thanks

👤 aiscapehumanity
Are you trying to learn just business-relevant psychology? Or psychology in general?
👤 elamje
Understand the basics of evolution and incentives.

Favorite books for practical psychology - Thinking Fast and Slow, How to win friends and influence people.

👤 vmladenov
Psychology by Bernstein, Penner, Clarke-Stewart, and Roy is an approachable, comprehensive introduction.
👤 leff_f
You should start by starting a business it will teach you all you need to know about psychology .... and some more :) I'm doing business and psychology/self development for the last 7 years and unfortunately, the idea of being good at business because somebody is good at understanding human behavior has huge flaws.
👤 runawaybottle
Read history, and see what humans do over and over and over again.
👤 oehtXRwMkIs
Check out Sapolsky's human behavior lectures on YouTube.