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The Power of Not Thinking
Simon Roberts
3.5 (169 Reviews)
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Business
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Discover why our bodies know more than our minds. Simon Roberts' groundbreaking exploration challenges AI's limits, revealing how Facebook's "2G Tuesdays" sparked innovation by experiencing user limitations firsthand. What intelligence are you missing by overthinking? Business leaders are taking note.

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When Your Body Knows More Than Your Mind

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Have you ever tried explaining to someone how to ride a bicycle? You understand the mechanics-pedals, handlebars, balance-yet when pressed to articulate the actual process, words fail. "Just balance," you say, knowing this captures almost nothing of the intricate dance between muscles, momentum, and spatial awareness. This gap between doing and explaining reveals something profound: intelligence doesn't live solely in our heads. It pulses through our entire being, encoded in muscle memory, sensory perception, and physical intuition. We've become so captivated by artificial intelligence and data analytics that we've forgotten our most powerful processing system isn't computational-it's corporeal. Your body isn't just carrying your brain around; it's thinking alongside it, often with greater wisdom than conscious thought alone could muster. Rene Descartes fundamentally reshaped how we understand ourselves when he declared the mind and body separate entities. Picture a puppet: the mind pulls the strings while the body mechanically responds. In Descartes's view, the immaterial thinking mind animated an otherwise lifeless physical machine. This split wasn't just philosophical abstraction-it established a hierarchy that persists today: minds are trustworthy, bodies are merely transportation. Yet this framework misses something essential. When a concert pianist performs, are their fingers merely executing commands from a superior mind? Or has the music itself become embodied, with knowledge distributed throughout their physical being?

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Maps, Data, and the Territory We've Forgotten

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The Distributed Intelligence of Doing

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The Body's Memory and the Paradox of Expertise

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Reading Reality Through Pattern Recognition and Bodily Intuition

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The Body as Empathy Engine and Business Intelligence

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Reclaiming Your Embodied Advantage in an Artificial World

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