TY - GEN AU - Mlodinow, Leonard TI - Elastic : flexible thinking in a constantly changing world SN - 9780241335192 U1 - 116 PY - 2018/// CY - New Delhi PB - Allen Lane Publishing KW - N1 - Contents Introduction 3 The Demands of Change Rising Above the Nematode Onward Part I Confronting change 1 The Joy of Change 15 The Peril and the Promise The Myth of Change Aversion Our Exploratory Drive Personal R&D and the Neophilia Scale Part II How we think 31 2 What Is Thought? Peeking Inside the Skull What Qualifies as Thought Becoming Mindful The Laws of Thought The Non-Algorithmic Elastic Brain 3 Why We Think 48 Desire and Obsession When Thought Goes Unrewarded Choice Overload How Good Feelings Happen The Rewards of Art Attention Deficit, Elasticity Surplus The Pleasure of Finding Things Out 4 The World Inside Your Brain 72 How Brains Represent the World How Brains Create Meaning The Bottom-up Brilliance of Ants Your Brain's Hierarchy An Intellectual Adventure Part Ill Where new ideas come from 5 The Power of Your Point of View 91 A Paradigm Shift in Popcorn The Structure of Personal Revolutions Reimagining Our Frames of Thought The Dog-and-Bone Problem How Mathematicians Think The Influence of Culture 6 Thinking When You're Not Thinking 108 Nature's Plan B The Dark Energy of the Brain The Symphonies in Idle Minds Smarts by Association The Importance of Being Aimless 7 The Origin of Insight 128 When the Unimaginable Becomes the Self-Evident Splitting the Brain The Connection Between Language and Problem-Solving The Trial of the Hemispheres The Lessons of CRAP Deconstructing the Insight Process Zen and the Art of Ideas Part IV Liberating your brain 8 How Thought Freezes Over 153 Building Lives and Candleholders The Momentum of Thought When Thought Freezes Over Destructive Doctrine Handicapping the Expert Brain The Benefits of Discord 9 Mental Blocks and Idea Filters 172 When Believing Means Not Seeing Thinking Outside the Box Our Idea-Filtering System Long Live the Sophomoric 10 The Good, the Mad, and the Odd 188 It's a Mad, Mad World Measuring Doses of Madness Elastic Personalities, from the Arts to Science The Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Inside 11 Liberation 200 Let's Go Get Stoned In Wine There Is Truth; Also in Vodka The Silver Lining of Fatigue Don't Worry, Be Happy Where There's a Will Survival of the Elastic Acknowledgments 223 Notes 225 Index 241 ER -