Augmented Thinking: How to Use Your Mind (Practical Guides for Decoding Meaning in Daily Life)

We live in an age that has never had more access to information, and yet never felt more confused. Augmented Thinking is a practical guide to reclaiming your mind. Drawing on neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, semiotics, sociology and cultural theory, Edward Rozzo argues that the way we have been taught to think - rational, linear, efficient - is precisely what is limiting us. The mind's deepest capabilities lie elsewhere: in confusion, in storytelling, in the liberation of intuition, and in a new kind of collaboration with artificial intelligence that augments rather than replaces human thought.

This is a book about what becomes possible when you stop looking for answers and start learning, once again, how to think.

Edward Rozzo is an academic, author, and visual communication theorist based in Milan. An Academic Fellow at Bocconi University since 2004, he also teaches at PoliDesign (Politecnico di Milano) and IES Abroad. His teaching spans semiotics, visual culture, storytelling, cinema and social theory, and the intersection of identity and post-modern thought.