Textbook Sleep #20: Experimental Psychology

Well, we have hit the mother load of boring textbooks to read from: A History of Experimental Psychology by—wait for it—Edwin G. Boring, Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. You would have thought that this poor man would have tried to overcompensate for his family name with lively writing on a subject others might find interesting. But no. Boring is boring, at least to me, and I hope you will find his 1929, 710-page tome sleep-inducing as well. With this ponderous discovery, Textbook Sleep, the Maximum-Strength Sleep Aid podcast enters a new, even more powerful realm of soporific communication. Dare we now call it Textbook Sleep, the Ultra-Strength Sleep-Aid? Okay, let’s pull up the covers. Or maybe, the lever on the La-Z-Boy. It’s sleepy time. This recording will end quietly. Get full access to Pieces of Jim at jimnolan1.substack.com/subscribe