Two Minds, The

di Ravinder Nath Bhalla MD (Autore)

Ravinder N Bhalla, 2026

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. After forty years of psychiatric practice, Dr. Ravinder Nath Bhalla has identified the single most consequential variable in human psychology: which of two minds is running. The scarcity mind believes there isn't enough. It generates anxiety, defensiveness, and competition in situations that pose no real threat. It mistakes accumulation for worth, competition for strength, and tribal loyalty for belonging. It optimizes for your lifetime because it hasn't accepted that you will die. The abundance mind recognizes that you are already whole. It accepts mortality and can therefore think and act beyond your own lifetime. It gives freely, cooperates genuinely, and responds to actual urgency without manufacturing emergency where none exists. Both minds are always available. Which one dominates depends on practice, not personality. Drawing on clinical case work, Nietzsche's philosophy of amor fati and revaluation of values, and the author's own experience of loss and grief, The Two Minds teaches readers to recognize which orientation is active in any moment, and to shift. It examines the five roots of scarcity thinking - unexamined trauma, unaccepted mortality, competition, accumulation, and tribalism - and the five practices that cultivate abundance: mortality acceptance, wholeness recognition, values examination, generosity, and long-term thinking. It closes with historical leaders - Marshall, Mandela, and those navigating the climate crisis - who chose abundance at civilizational scale. This is the second book in a trilogy. Book One, Abundance: Beyond Scarcity and Self-Devouring Cycles, examines the cycles scarcity thinking creates in institutions and civilizations. Book Three, Red Lines Rising: Governing AI While We Still Can, applies the framework to AI governance and the urgent need for citizen action.

• Autore: Ravinder Nath Bhalla MD
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 08:41:38
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Ravinder N Bhalla
• Lingua: Inglese
• EAN: 9781971562247