Fourth Estate Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind, Contemporary Fiction, Paperback, Guy Claxton
38 ratings
TO EXPLORE MORE
Price: £10.99
Brand: Fourth Estate
Description: 'Learning to loaf' - this books explores the ways of knowing that require more time, the ways we have unlearned or ignore, but that are crucial to our complete mental development. Fourth Estate Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind, Contemporary Fiction, Paperback, Guy Claxton - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
Category: Books
Merchant: Harper Collins
Product ID: 9781857027099
Delivery cost: Spend £20 and get free shipping
Dimensions: 129x198mm
Keywords: World,intelligence,second brain,learning,how,we,learn,about,iq
ISBN: 9781857027099
My website utilises affiliate links when you click my 'Get the best deal now' buttons. If you buy something through one of these links, I may earn a little commission, at no extra cost to you.
I have relationships with many of the top online retailers (purchasing, shipping and returns will be handled directly by them) which enables me to offer the best deal online for the Fourth Estate Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind, Contemporary Fiction, Paperback, Guy Claxton and many other similar products - which will appear below, to enhance your online shopping experience.
For even more great deals on Fourth Estate Books, click the link.
Author: Ms Monkeymind
Rating: 5
Review: I’m surprised and saddened other reviewers have not been as profoundly affected by this book as I have. I have found myself having countless conversations with family and at work, wishing they had read this book. So many real-life examples of people getting caught up in d-mode, not understanding its limitations. As someone who strongly identifies with having a very active tortoise and being creative, I found this book illuminating. I’ve purchased two spare copies from amazon to loan to people. When you understand further the importance of giving time to slower ways of thinking, being ok with the discomfort of ‘not knowing’ until an idea surfaces in its own time, of planting the seed with time in d-mode but not adding pressure (antagonistic to the tortoise) you cannot not be changed by this book. Solutions to complex problems cannot be forced, and i respect that applying pressure to myself or to colleagues only hinders the creative process of the tortoise mind. I am applying ideas from this book to my role in business, as well as my personal life. I even understand my husband more, who virtually lives life in tortoise mode and struggles to verbalise and explain - and attempts post hoc rationalisation ... Other reviewers have wondered how to apply the ideas... as a light hearted example this book explains why I often have my best ideas and solutions to problems while nodding off to sleep, while showering and even when in the sauna. I actively use relaxation type activities now to let ideas marinate and almost always I find that good things surface. Though I didn’t understand at the time, I now know why during my mindfulness meditation sessions my mind would frequently be interrupted by sudden ideas and concepts - though trying to be mindful I was in fact entering tortoise mode by just calming myself and allowing the undermind time to do its thing. I feel I spent much of my adolescence in d-mode, probably the fault of an excessive academic focus, which in Guy Claxton’s words would lead to perception becoming flat and full. If we can nurture the tortoise through practices such as mindfulness, and slow and quiet time, we can develop all of our senses and I certainly love the idea of nurturing a richer sense of understanding the world than one that is purely linguistic and dominated by d-mode so valued by our culture. Love love love it.
Author: Gary Sage
Rating: 2
Review: Somewhat of and ode to his own vast knowledge on a banal subject that regularly provokes short term interest among the pop-psych pundits. The cover is arguably the most intriguing thing about the entire book. Admittedly Guy Claxton has done a lot of research but the book never really gets going. Another book meandering academically on what we probably already know. Plenty of the psych tricks that everyone enjoys. No indication as to how to use the "discovery". Not even a stance on its efficacy. Lastly it does go on and on and on.
