Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (758 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06X17WVGR |
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| Number of Pages | : | 500 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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LEONARD MLODINOW received his Ph.D. His previous books include the best sellers Subliminal (winner of the PEN/E. in theoretical physics from the University of California, Berkeley, was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute, and was on the faculty of the California Institute of Technology. Wilson Literary Science Writ
His previous books include the best sellers Subliminal (winner of the PEN/E. O. About the AuthorLEONARD MLODINOW received his Ph.D. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award), War of the Worldviews (with Deepak Chopra), The Grand Design (with Stephen Hawking), and The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives (a New York Times Notable Book), as well as The Upright Thinkers, Feynman's Rainbow, and Euclid's Window. He also wrote for the television series MacGyver and Star Trek: The Next Generation.. in theoretical physics from the University of California, Berkeley, was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute, and was on the faculty of the California Institute of Technology
These are the qualities that enabled innovators from Mary Shelley to Miles Davis, from the inventor of jumbo-sized popcorn to the creator of the modern grocery store, and from Nike to Pokemon Go to effect paradigm shifts in our culture and society. Fortunately, as Leonard Mlodinow shows, the human brain is uniquely engineered to adapt. As jobs become more multifaceted, as information streams multiply, and as myriad devices place increasing demands on our attention, we are confronted every day with a plethora of new challenges. And they’re the qualities that will enable each of us to succeed, personally and professionally, in the radically changing environments of today. With rapid technological innovation leading the charge, today’s world is transforming itself at an extraordinary and unprecedented pace. Out of the exploratory instincts that allowed our ancestors to prosper hundreds of thousands of years ago, humans developed a cognitive style that Mlodinow terms elastic thinking, a collection of traits and abilities that include neophilia (an affinity for novelty), schizotypy (a tendency toward unusual perception), imagination and idea generation, pattern recognition, mental fluency, divergent thinking, and integrative thinking. From the best-selling author of Subliminal and The Drunkard's Walk, a groundbreaking new look at the neuroscience of c