How long does it take to read How the Mind Works?
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker takes about 12 hours 14 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 12 hours 14 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1997. 667 pages, about 183,425 words.
25 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 20 hours 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 14 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 39 minutes |
The page count is the median across 23 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Presented with extraordinary lucidity, cogency and panache...Powerful and gripping...To have read [the book] is to have consulted a first draft of the structural plan of the human psyche...a glittering tour de force" - Spectator "Why do memories fade? Why do we lose our tempers? Why do fools fall in love? Pinker's objective in this erudite account is to explore the nature and history of the human mind...He explores computations and evolutions, and then considers how the mind lets us "see, think, feel, interact, and pursue higher callings like art, religion and philosophy"" - Sunday Times
Subjects: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Neuropsychology, Psychology, Cognitive neuroscience, Natural selection
