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Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind How Intelligence Increases When You Think Less

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ISBN-10: 0060955414

ISBN-13: 9780060955410

Edition: 2000

Authors: Guy Claxton

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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…    
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Book details

List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 12/8/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Guy Claxton is Professor of the Learning Sciences at the University of Bristol Graduate School of Education, where he directs the research initiative on Culture, Learning, Identity and Organisations (CLIO). His books include The Wayward Mind: An Intimate History of the Unconscious (2005), Learning for Life in the 21st Century: Sociocultural Perspectives on the Future of Education (2002, co-edited with Gordon Wells), Wise Up: Learning to Live the Learning Life (1999) and the best-selling Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: Why Intelligence Increases When You Think Less (1997). His current work focuses on the development of infused approaches to the cultivation of positive lifelong learning…    

Acknowledgments
List of Figures
The Speed of Thought
Basic Intelligence: Learning by Osmosis
Premature Articulation: How Thinking Gets in the Way of Learning
Knowing More than We Think: Intuition and Creativity
Having an Idea: the Gentle Art of Mental Gestation
Thinking Too Much? Reason and Intuition as Antagonists and Allies
Perception without Consciousness
Self-Consciousness
The Brains behind the Operation
The Point of Consciousness
Paying Attention
The Rudiments of Wisdom
The Undermind Society: Putting the Tortoise to Work
Notes
Index