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On Claxton’s previous book Noises for the Darkroom: The Science & Mystery of the Mind:
‘an intriguing, witty and illuminating book.’
Fritjof Capra
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‘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.
The human brain-mind will do a number of unusual, interesting and important things if given time. It will learn patterns of a degree of subtlety which normal, purposeful, busy consciousness cannot even see, let alone master. It will make sense out of hazy, ill-defined situations which leave everyday rationality flummoxed. It will get to the bottom of personal, emotional issues much more successfully than the questing intellect. It will detect and respond to meaning, in poetry for example, that cannot be articulated. It will sometimes come up with solutions to complicated predicaments that are wise rather than merely clever. There is good, hard evidence, from cognitive science and elsewhere, for all these capacities. Claxton explores the slower ways of knowing and explains how we could/should use them more often and more effectively.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I read this when it first came out; I thought then it had some profound messages, I still think that some ten years later. The essential message is this: that the mind is more absorbant, more elastic when it is not stressed, tested, questioned, or rebuked. We don't know what we know. That by being relaxed and not uptight we can access knowledge denied to us when agitated. Think of schools, colleges, the way we have been taught. Further, Claxton's ideas are relevant in the workplace, on the sportsfield, every day, everywhere.
43 of 46 people found the following review helpful
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Based on sound psychology with extensive experimental results and references to back it up; this will really get you thinking... or maybe letting your subconscious (the "tortoise") do it for you. It's fairly slow reading but well worth it - every chapter reveals some new idea, with insights on everything from visual perception and hypnosis to language and solving maths problems! Highly recommended for anyone with an interest in psychology, learning or neurology, or simply a sense of curiosity about how your mind works.
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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Hare Brain Tortoise Mind has created tremendous interest among those who want to gain a better understanding of human intelligence. According to John Cleese, author Guy Claxton provides "The essential guide to creative thinking" in a book published by The Ecco Press. Almost immediately we are informed that "Roughly speaking, the mind possesses three different processing speeds. The first is faster than thought....Below this, there is another mental register that proceeds more slowly still. It is often less purposeful and clear-cut, more playful, leisurely or dreamy....[the] third type of intelligence is associated with what we call ceativity, or even 'wisdom'."
With delicious wit as well as probing analysis, Claxton helps us to understand learning by osmosis; the potential value of intuition and creativity to decision-making and problem-solving; why reason and intuition are sometimes antagonists; the phenomenon of perception without consciousness; the "rudiments" of wisdom; and, how to recognize situations in which there is greater need for the tortoise's "slower ways" than for those of the hare who, in many quests for understanding, either arrives later or not at all. This is a very informative, highly entertaining book. In it, Claxton develops his insights in much greater depth than does Malcolm Gladwell in Blink which is ironic, given the fact that Gladwell has only one to work with and it is not even his.
Those who share my high regard for Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind are urged to check out two books by Tom Kelley, The Art of Innovation and The Ten Faces of Innovation. Also, any written of those written by Roger von Oech (e.g. Expect the Unexpected or You Won't Find It) and Edward de Bono (e.g. How to Have Creative Ideas), James L. Adams's Conceptural Blockbusting, and Michael Michalko's Cracking Creativity.
With delicious wit as well as probing analysis, Claxton helps us to understand learning by osmosis; the potential value of intuition and creativity to decision-making and problem-solving; why reason and intuition are sometimes antagonists; the phenomenon of perception without consciousness; the "rudiments" of wisdom; and, how to recognize situations in which there is greater need for the tortoise's "slower ways" than for those of the hare who, in many quests for understanding, either arrives later or not at all. This is a very informative, highly entertaining book. In it, Claxton develops his insights in much greater depth than does Malcolm Gladwell in Blink which is ironic, given the fact that Gladwell has only one to work with and it is not even his.
Those who share my high regard for Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind are urged to check out two books by Tom Kelley, The Art of Innovation and The Ten Faces of Innovation. Also, any written of those written by Roger von Oech (e.g. Expect the Unexpected or You Won't Find It) and Edward de Bono (e.g. How to Have Creative Ideas), James L. Adams's Conceptural Blockbusting, and Michael Michalko's Cracking Creativity.
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Great ideas - and practical
I really enjoyed this. very readable, lots of good stories.
But also it is a valuable, practical approach. Think less. Let your "elephant" do the work.
But also it is a valuable, practical approach. Think less. Let your "elephant" do the work.
Published 7 months ago by Peter W. Burden
Beyond me
On the back of the book is printed a brief precis - and that sums up all I really needed to know.
The author is a gifted and inspirational speaker who gives us pause to... Read more
The author is a gifted and inspirational speaker who gives us pause to... Read more
Published on 8 July 2009 by Woodcutter
Using the brain in education - a strange thing to consider??
As an educationalist who is heavily engaged with the entrepreneurship agenda I found this book to be of great value. Read more
Published on 23 April 2009 by Dr. Andrew Penaluna
Sound message but oh so hard to read
I feel sure that what Guy is talking about has a lot of truth - But I couldn't finish the book. All the time he seems to be demolishing other stances and he takes an interminable... Read more
Published on 10 Mar 2007 by Bob Bollen
Fascinating and entertaining
This provides great insights into the limits of our conscious mind - and shows how much human intelligence is actually operating below the surface, out of awareness. Read more
Published on 7 Feb 2003 by J. Moore
Meanders around. Good Psych tricks
Somewhat of and ode to his own vast knowledge on a banal subject that regularly provokes short term interest among the pop-psych pundits. Read more
Published on 23 April 2002 by Gary Sage
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