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Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: Why Intelligence Increases When You Think Less (Paperback)

by Guy Claxton (Author)
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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd; New edition edition (21 May 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1857027094
  • ISBN-13: 978-1857027099
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 88,678 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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.


About the Author

After a 'double first' in natural sciences at Cambridge, Guy Claxton was awarded a doctorate at Oxford in 1974 for his work on the structure of the mind. Since then he has taught at a variety of institutions on both sides of the Altlantic including the University of London. He is currently Visiting Professor of Psychology and Education at Bristol University.

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38 of 41 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Astonishing insight with an undeniable ring of truth, 6 Jul 2000
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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.
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating and entertaining, 7 Feb 2003
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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. If we fail to acknowledge this, we may miss a great part of the genius of being human. Full of fascinating case studies, it combines sound research with an easy writing style.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Faster Is Not Always Better, 16 April 2007
By Robert Morris (Dallas, Texas) - See all my reviews
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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.
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