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In these accelerated times, our decisive and businesslike ways of thinking are unprepared for ambiguity, paradox, and sleeping on it.” We assume that the quick-thinking “hare brain” will beat out the slower Intuition of the “tortoise mind.” However, now research in cognitive science is changing this understanding of the human mind. It suggests that patience and confusion-rather than rigor and certainty-are the essential precursors of wisdom.With a compelling argument that the mind works best when we trust our unconscious, or “undermind,” psychologist Guy Claxton makes an appeal that we be less analytical and let our creativity have free rein. He also encourages reevaluation of society’s obsession with results-oriented thinking and problem-solving under pressure. Packed with Interesting anecdotes, a dozen puzzles to test your reasoning, and the latest related research, Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind is an Illuminating, uplifting, stimulating read that focuses on a new kind of well-being and cognition.‘Learning to loaf’ – this books explores the ways of knowing that require more time, the ways we have unlearned or ignore, but that are crucial to our complete mental development.The human brain-mind will do a number of unusual, interesting and important things if given time. It will learn patterns of a degree of subtlety which normal, purposeful, busy consciousness cannot even see, let alone master. It will make sense out of hazy, ill-defined situations which leave everyday rationality flummoxed. It will get to the bottom of personal, emotional issues much more successfully than the questing intellect. It will detect and respond to meaning, in poetry for example, that cannot be articulated. It will sometimes come up with solutions to complicated predicaments that are wise rather than merely clever. There is good, hard evidence, from cognitive science and elsewhere, for all these capacities. Claxton explores the slower ways of knowing and explains how we could/should use them more often and more effectively.BiographyGuy Claxton is  a cognitive scientist writing about mind, body, creativity and learning. Much of my work has been in education, trying to persuade schools to weave the building of positive learning habits and attitudes (‘Building Learning Power’) into everyday lessons and school activities. The latest book, Educating Ruby, written with my long-standing collaborator Bill Lucas, is a call to arms for parents, families and teachers to push for the kinds of educational changes that are so urgently needed. As a cognitive science writer, my books concern the importance of unconscious and bodily underpinnings of human intelligence. The latest book in this field is Intelligence in the Flesh: Why Your Mind Needs Your Body Much More Than It Thinks. I have also written about Buddhism and the relationship between easter religious traditions and contemporary psychology. I am retired from full-time university life, being now a Visiting Professor of Education at King’s College London and Emeritus Professor of the Learning Sciences at the Centre for Real-World Learning, University of Winchester.Guy Argues that the mind works best when people trust the unconscious and calls for a reevaluation of society’s obsession with results-oriented thinking and solving problems under pressureLanguage – English | December 8, 1999 | ISBN: 0060955414 | EPUB | 272 pages | 1 MB