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Thought in Action - Expertise and the Conscious Mind (Hardcover)
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Thought in Action - Expertise and the Conscious Mind (Hardcover)
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How does thinking affect doing? There is a widely held view - both
in academia and in the popular press - that thinking about what you
are doing, as you are doing it, hinders performance. Once you have
acquired the ability to putt a golf ball, play an arpeggio on the
piano, or parallel-park, it is believed that reflecting on your
actions leads to inaccuracies, blunders, and sometimes even utter
paralysis. Experts, accordingly, don't need to try to do it; they
just do it. But is this true? After exploring some of the
contemporary and historical manifestations of the idea that highly
accomplished skills are automatic and effortless, Barbara Gail
Montero develops a theory of expertise that emphasizes the role of
the conscious mind in expert action. Along the way, she dispels
various mythical accounts of experts who proceed without any
understanding of what guides their action and analyzes research in
both philosophy and psychology that is taken to show that conscious
control impedes well practiced skills. She also explores real-life
examples of optimal performance - culled from sports, the
performing arts, chess, nursing, medicine, the military and
elsewhere - and draws from psychology, neuroscience, and literature
to create a picture of expertise according to which expert action
generally is and ought to be thoughtful, effortful, and reflective.
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