Elastic : flexible thinking in a constantly changing world

By:

Mlodinow, Leonard

Publication details: New Delhi Allen Lane Publishing 2018Description: ix,252pISBN:

9780241335192

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

116 MLO

Contents:

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

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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

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