The Anxious Generation – How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by author Jonathan Haidt cautions us to the grave risks that we as a society permit willfully by exposing our kids, young adults, teens and adolescents to; by completely eliminating the natural “play based childhood and learning”, with “technology driven models of learning.” He introduces the book with a thought experiment called growing up on mars. This book delves deeply and analytically over the cost and consequences of the “Great Rewiring of Childhood.

Willful Blindness – Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril by Margaret Heffernan, begins its second chapter with the following quote, “Love to faults is always blind, Always is to Joy inclin’d” (William Blake), poems 1791-1793. This sets the tone for the chapters that follow where Margaret using her extensive experience as a CEO herself; cites several examples, employing both the tools of psychology and neuroscience; questions us about the choices we make and the decisions we take. All of us at some point in our lives, have paused to ask “Oh! Why did I not see this coming?” Margaret provides valuable insights on our Willful Blindness and suggests practical ways of overcoming this too. Willful Blindness brings reality to our doorsteps

The Hidden Dimension, written by Edward T. Hall; draws upon his years of experience as an anthropologist and underscores the fact that humankind is first, last, and always a biological organism. The central theme of the book is social and personal space and man’s perception of it. “Proxemics” is the term coined for the interrelated observations and theories of man’s use of space as a specialized elaboration of culture. The author intends to convey the following message through his book, “There is a great need to revise and broaden our view of the human situation, a need to be both more comprehensive and more realistic, not only about others, but about ourselves as well. It is essential that we learn to read the silent communications as easily as the printed and spoken ones. Only by doing so can we also reach other people both inside and outside our national boundaries, as we are increasingly required to do.