{"product_id":"storythinking-9780231206921","title":"Storythinking","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book explains how and why our brains think in stories. Angus Fletcher, an expert in neuroscientific approaches to narrative, identifies this capacity as “storythinking.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFletcher’s done it again. His polymathic erudition and word-wizardry elegance pull off the equivalent of a Copernican revolution in our understanding of storytelling—in all its resplendent iterations. With \u003ci\u003eStorythinking\u003c\/i\u003e he invites us on an extraordinary odyssey that enriches understanding of our deep, instinctive impulse to create stories as makers and transformers of our world. \u003ci\u003eStorythinking\u003c\/i\u003e is nothing less than a cosmological paradigm shift that puts story making and thinking at the center of all that we do. -- Frederick Luis Aldama, award-winning author and Jacob \u0026amp; Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, UT Austin\u003cbr\u003eAngus Fletcher explains why effective narrative prioritizes the unique, shifts viewpoints, and encourages conflict. Not for their own sake. It makes a writer create and clarify more thoughtful ideas and leads readers to intuit and retain the message. Both revelatory and pragmatic, and so gracefully explained. -- Shane Greenstein, author of \u003ci\u003eHow the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New Network\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStorythinking \u003c\/i\u003eis absolutely excellent: a much-needed reminder of and expansion on the transformative power of story, story as an enriched form of learning and as a valid epistemology. The book is a lovely, readable addition to academic and public life. I am eager to see the use of story resurrected! -- Lisa Miller, Ph.D., Professor \u0026amp; Founder, Spirituality Mind Body Institute, Teachers College, Columbia University\u003cbr\u003eStory is a basic mental operation. Most of our experience, knowledge, and thinking is formed and organized by story: prediction, evaluation, planning, explanation, agents and actors, processes, goals. Story is an indispensable element of creativity. Human beings project from story to story and blend stories to create new concepts, new proposals, new science.  How can we push the cognitive science of story forward? Fletcher, in this captivating and inspiring new book, leads the way. -- Mark Turner, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Literary Mind: The Origins of Thought and Language\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe quickest way to elicit a scoff from 'serious thinkers' is to mention 'story'. But as someone who has built a career as a science communicator, who consistently straddles the line between art and science, and whose work is grounded in neuroscience, I know intuitively that storytelling is fundamental to how we think. Finally, Angus Fletcher brings his deep understanding of narrative together with his keen scientific mind to explain \u003ci\u003ewhy \u003c\/i\u003ewe think in stories, why embracing story structure is the way forward, and how\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003estories provide an architecture to thought as powerful and important as logic. Read this book. -- Indre Viskontas, Cognitive Neuroscientist, University of San Francisco\u003cbr\u003e[\u003ci\u003eStorythinking\u003c\/i\u003e] is a most unusual book, plumbing the depths of history to find where philosophy went off the rails, examining neurobiology for insight into creativity, and festooned with stories about great characters all the way through. I can honestly report I’ve never read anything like it. And that’s a good thing. * The Straight Dope *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Story\u003cbr\u003e2. Story and Thinking\u003cbr\u003e3. The Origin of Story\u003cbr\u003e4. Why Our Schools Teach Logic, Not Story\u003cbr\u003e5. The Limits of Logic—or Why We Still Need Storythinking\u003cbr\u003e6. The Brain Machinery of Storythinking\u003cbr\u003e7. Improving Storythinking\u003cbr\u003e8. Storythinking for Personal Growth\u003cbr\u003e9. Storythinking for Social Growth\u003cbr\u003e10. Story’s Answer to the Meaning of Life\u003cbr\u003eCoda: Conversations with a Storythinker\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49524658274647,"sku":"9780231206921","price":67.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231206921.jpg?v=1731857643","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/storythinking-9780231206921","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}