Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2022-04-02
Books mentioned on The Wisdom Of Intuition - Iain McGilchrist - #455
Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, author and a former Oxford literary scholar. Modern society praises rationality as the pinnacle destination we should all aim for.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Trying Not to Try
Trying Not to Try by Edward Slingerland explores the ancient Chinese concept of wu-wei, or effortless action, bridging classical philosophy with modern cognitive science to explain how to achieve peak performance and mental well-being by letting go of overthinking.
Discussed“There's a quote from Confucius that Edward Slingerland put in Trying Not to Try, which I wanted to bring up earlier on about um the individual's requirement to balance this cognition and intuition...”
Other mentions in this episode (5) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book The Matter With Things
“So, it's it's it's on that sort of a scale, I'm afraid, which is why the second book that I've just published, The Matter With Things, is is, as you know, a rather long book.”
Own book The master and his emissary
“Um, and in my earlier book, um, The Master and His Emissary, which came out in 2009, so um, 12 and 1/2 years ago now.”
Own book The Matter With Things
“And what I do in in The Matter With Things is to discuss how we can use this information to help us decide what the reality is.”
Own book The master and his emissary
“And um in the preface to the new edition of The Master and His Emissary, I point to about six ways.”
Own book The Matter With Things
“And you mentioned the moral law and one of the things I I think is terribly important and towards the end of this latest latest book, The Matter With Things, emphasized is that one way of thinking about what we're getting wrong is that we've completely inverted the pyramid of values.”