I (25f) am looking for a book to inspire my curiosity again. I am a scientist, and things are pretty grim right now in our field. I'm losing inspiration by the day and finding it more and more difficult to be motivated by the work itself. I really love reading and believe the right book can genuinely change you.
Any suggestions for this burnt-out scientist?
by addzie22
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It may not be what you’re looking for, but I was totally charmed by a book called Dr Tatiana’s Sex Advice for All Creation. Each chapter is written like an advice column, with a different animal writing in with a sex/love question. It really gets into the vastly diverse ways sexuality, reproduction, and related social structures happen in the animal kingdom. Of interest to anyone into biology or evolution, and completely fun to read.
Keep going! We need scientists now more than ever.
Maybe go underground? I found Robert Macfarlane’s ‘Underland’ an inspiring book. Beautifully written, some dark stuff, new insights in deep time (well, for me anyway).
I really liked The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben! It’s comforting and inspiring knowing there’s a whole world of tree networking going on without our intervention, and that they’re just so “smart”. Nature’s pretty cool !