Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: Why Intelligence Increases When You Think Less

Claxton, Guy

ISBN 10: 1857024516 / ISBN 13: 9781857024517

Published by Fourth Estate, 1997

About this Item

Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: Why Intelligence Increases When You Think Less
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1857024516
• ISBN 13: 9781857024517
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 550 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

After a `double first' in natural sciences at Cambridge, Guy Claxton was awarded a doctorate at Oxford in 1974 for his work on the structure of the mind. Since then he has taught at a variety of institutions on both sides of the Altlantic including the University of London. He is currently Visiting Professor of Psychology and Education at Bristol University.