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Rethinking Thought - Inside the Minds of Creative Scientists and Artists (Hardcover)
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Rethinking Thought - Inside the Minds of Creative Scientists and Artists (Hardcover)
Series: Explorations in Narrative Psychology
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Rethinking Thought takes readers into the minds of 30 creative
thinkers to show how greatly the experience of thought can vary. It
is dedicated to anyone who has ever been told, "You're not
thinking!", because his or her way of thinking differs so much from
a spouse's, employer's, or teacher's. The book focuses on
individual experiences with visual mental images and verbal
language that are used in planning, problem-solving, reflecting,
remembering, and forging new ideas. It approaches the question of
what thinking is by analyzing variations in the way thinking feels.
Written by neuroscientist-turned-literary scholar Laura Otis,
Rethinking Thought juxtaposes creative thinkers' insights with
recent neuroscientific discoveries about visual mental imagery,
verbal language, and thought. Presenting the results of new,
interview-based research, it offers verbal portraits of novelist
Salman Rushdie, engineer Temple Grandin, American Poet Laureate
Natasha Trethewey, and Nobel prize-winning biologist Elizabeth
Blackburn. It also depicts the unique mental worlds of two
award-winning painters, a flamenco dancer, a game designer, a
cartoonist, a lawyer-novelist, a theoretical physicist, and a
creator of multi-agent software. Treating scientists and artists
with equal respect, it creates a dialogue in which neuroscientific
findings and the introspections of creative thinkers engage each
other as equal partners. The interviews presented in this book
indicate that many creative people enter fields requiring skills
that don't come naturally. Instead, they choose professions that
demand the hardest work and the greatest mental growth. Instead of
classifying people as "visual" or "verbal," educators and managers
need to consider how thinkers combine visual and verbal skills and
how those abilities can be further developed. By showing how
greatly individual experiences of thought can vary, this book aims
to help readers in all professions better understand and respect
the diverse people with whom they work.
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