| Title : | Hare brain tortoise mind : How intelligence increases when you think less | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Guy Claxton, Author | | Publisher: | HarperCollins | | Publication Date: | 2000 | | Pagination: | xi, 259 p. | | Layout: | ill. (b & w) | | Size: | 21 cm | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-06-095541-0 | | General note: | Using a compelling argument that the mind works best when people trust their unconscious or "underminds, " psychologist Claxton makes an appeal to readers to be less analytical and let their creativity have free rein. | | Class number: | 153.4 | | Abstract: | In these accelerated times, our decisive and businesslike ways of thinking are unprepared for ambiguity, paradox, and sleeping on it." We assume that the quick-thinking "hare brain" will beat out the slower Intuition of the "tortoise mind." However, now research in cognitive science is changing this understanding of the human mind. It suggests that patience and confusion--rather than rigor and certainty--are the essential precursors of wisdom. With a compelling argument that the mind works best when we trust our unconscious, or "undermind," psychologist Guy Claxton makes an appeal that we be less analytical and let our creativity have free rein. He also encourages reevaluation of society's obsession with results-oriented thinking and problem-solving under pressure. Packed with Interesting anecdotes, a dozen puzzles to test your reasoning, and the latest related research, Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind is an Illuminating, uplifting, stimulating read that focuses on a new kind of well-being and cognition. | | Contents note: | Acknowledgements; List of Figures
1. Speed of thought; 2. Basic intelligence: learning by osmosis; 3. Premature articulation: how thinking gets in the way of learning; 4. Knowing more than we think: intuition and creativity; 5. Having an idea: the gentle art of mental gestation; 6. Thinking too much? Reason and intuition as antagonists and allies; 7. Perception without consciousness; 8. Self-consciousness; 9. The brains behind the operation; 10. The point of consciousness; 11. Paying attention; 12. The rudiments of wisdom; 13. The undermind society: putting the tortoise to work.
Notes; Index. |
Hare brain tortoise mind : How intelligence increases when you think less [printed text] / Guy Claxton, Author . - [S.l.] : HarperCollins, 2000 . - xi, 259 p. : ill. (b & w) ; 21 cm. ISBN : 978-0-06-095541-0 Using a compelling argument that the mind works best when people trust their unconscious or "underminds, " psychologist Claxton makes an appeal to readers to be less analytical and let their creativity have free rein. | Class number: | 153.4 | | Abstract: | In these accelerated times, our decisive and businesslike ways of thinking are unprepared for ambiguity, paradox, and sleeping on it." We assume that the quick-thinking "hare brain" will beat out the slower Intuition of the "tortoise mind." However, now research in cognitive science is changing this understanding of the human mind. It suggests that patience and confusion--rather than rigor and certainty--are the essential precursors of wisdom. With a compelling argument that the mind works best when we trust our unconscious, or "undermind," psychologist Guy Claxton makes an appeal that we be less analytical and let our creativity have free rein. He also encourages reevaluation of society's obsession with results-oriented thinking and problem-solving under pressure. Packed with Interesting anecdotes, a dozen puzzles to test your reasoning, and the latest related research, Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind is an Illuminating, uplifting, stimulating read that focuses on a new kind of well-being and cognition. | | Contents note: | Acknowledgements; List of Figures
1. Speed of thought; 2. Basic intelligence: learning by osmosis; 3. Premature articulation: how thinking gets in the way of learning; 4. Knowing more than we think: intuition and creativity; 5. Having an idea: the gentle art of mental gestation; 6. Thinking too much? Reason and intuition as antagonists and allies; 7. Perception without consciousness; 8. Self-consciousness; 9. The brains behind the operation; 10. The point of consciousness; 11. Paying attention; 12. The rudiments of wisdom; 13. The undermind society: putting the tortoise to work.
Notes; Index. |
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