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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
