{"product_id":"unfiltered-eight-billion-truths-one-stubborn-mind-9798184564302","title":"Unfiltered: Eight Billion Truths, One Stubborn Mind","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): H. Asad Gillani\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Human Geography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUNFILTERED: Eight Billion Truths, One Stubborn Mind\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat happens when a man who has spent thirty years reading people finally turns the lens on himself - and the world he refuses to stop questioning?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a book that was planned. It is a book that \u003ci\u003ehappened\u003c\/i\u003e - pulled from the margins of a restless life: scribbled between meetings, tapped out at roadside dhabas, thought through on long mountain drives through KPK, and fired into social media feeds at hours when honest thinking tends to arrive uninvited.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eH. Asad Gillani has spent over two decades inside the machinery of human behaviour - as a military and police officer, as a Master Practitioner of NLP, as a CBT-trained counsellor, and as someone certified in lie detection by an award-winning FBI instructor who has personally assessed more than ten thousand people. He has learned, through hard experience, that most of what we call \"reality\" is a story we have been telling ourselves long enough to forget we made it up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUNFILTERED\u003c\/i\u003e is the book that emerges when that kind of mind stops holding back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt moves the way a genuinely curious person thinks - without apology and without a fixed destination. One page might crack open the neuroscience of dopamine and why discipline is a myth. The next will cut into the psychology of dictators, the trap of Eastern parenting, or the quiet violence of a society designed to keep people just desperate enough to comply. Pakistan's contradictions sit beside universal human nature. Freud shares space with Ibn Khaldun. Laboratory mice illuminate the fate of civilisations. A dhaba conversation contains more economics than a textbook.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInside these pages, you will encounter: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy your brain is a prediction machine - and why that makes you wrong in ways you cannot easily see\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe real function of dopamine, and how productive people have quietly hacked their own neurochemistry\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow perspective is built in layers before you are old enough to consent to it - and why rational argument almost never changes minds\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe operating system of inequality, learned helplessness, and why intelligence alone does not set people free\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat empire, power, control, parenting, love, grief, and the architecture of fear all have in common\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeven questions worth living with - and the uncomfortable habit of asking them\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will not stay still. It is not supposed to. It was written to disturb what you have stopped examining - and to follow you into your next conversation, your next quiet moment, your next sleepless night when something you read earlier that day refuses to leave you alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRead slowly. Argue with the pages. Share what angers you as much as what moves you.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThat is the only kind of reading worth doing.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48213009924247,"sku":"9798184564302","price":1128.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798184564302.webp?v=1788725133","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/unfiltered-eight-billion-truths-one-stubborn-mind-9798184564302","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}