Great recommendation, just ordered it. The sample pages hooked me, I think her emphasis applies to questions I have about why I think and act as I do.
Thanks, Kent On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 8:06 AM Edward K. Ream <edream...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought > By Barbara Tversky, Basic Books, 2019 > > I'm telling everyone I know about this book. I highly recommend it. > > The author is a research scientist. The book is anything but dry. It > might change your life. > > *Quotes* > > A creature didn't think in order to move; it just moved, and by moving it > discovered the world and then formed the contents of its thoughts—Larissa > MacFarquhar. > > Art proves that life is not enough—Paraphrasing Fernando Pessoa. > > This book means to show how we think about space and how we use space to > think...The premise is audacious: spacial thinking, rooted in perception of > space and action in it, is the foundation of all thought. The foundation, > not the entire edifice. > > *Laws of cognition* > > These are solidly grounded in research. Understand them, or suffer. > > First Law of Cognition: There are no benefits without costs. > > The root of all cognitive biases. We evolved to solve problems quickly, > but not necessarily accurately. > > Sixth Law of Cognition: Spatial thinking is the foundation of abstract > thought. > > Oh, how I wish I had understood this in school... > > *Implications for Leo* > > Creativity does not mean daydreaming! For me, it means finding juicy > problems to solve. > > Tversky discusses* empathetic design:* > > "[Designers] study a community of users intensively to see what people > actually do and what kind of new product or service might improve their > lives...We compared two strategies, mind wandering and empathetic, for the > standard divergent thinking task, finding new uses for familiar > objects...The hands-down winner was the empathetic strategy...Only the > empathetic strategy approach gave a productive way to search for new uses." > > This is highly relevant to me at present. > > Edward > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "leo-editor" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/269f09d3-ca1d-4de9-95e8-05420af69057%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/269f09d3-ca1d-4de9-95e8-05420af69057%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/CAAa_k2e0h09U35r41HLuDFpDbHUfQFm-LG7c2vfMVkHc8Xjnjg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
