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Trying Not to Try
- The Art and Science of Spontaneity
- Narrado por: Marc Cashman
- Duración: 8 h y 52 m
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A deeply original exploration of the power of spontaneity—an ancient Chinese ideal that cognitive scientists are only now beginning to understand—and why it is so essential to our well-being.
Why is it always hard to fall asleep the night before an important meeting? Or be charming and relaxed on a first date? What is it about a politician who seems wooden or a comedian whose jokes fall flat or an athlete who chokes? In all of these cases, striving seems to backfire.
In Trying Not To Try, Edward Slingerland explains why we find spontaneity so elusive, and shows how early Chinese thought points the way to happier, more authentic lives. We’ve long been told that the way to achieve our goals is through careful reasoning and conscious effort. But recent research suggests that many aspects of a satisfying life, like happiness and spontaneity, are best pursued indirectly. The early Chinese philosophers knew this, and they wrote extensively about an effortless way of being in the world, which they called wu-wei (ooo-way). They believed it was the source of all success in life, and they developed various strategies for getting it and hanging on to it.
With clarity and wit, Slingerland introduces us to these thinkers and the marvelous characters in their texts, from the butcher whose blade glides effortlessly through an ox to the wood carver who sees his sculpture simply emerge from a solid block. Slingerland uncovers a direct line from wu-wei to the Force in Star Wars, explains why wu-wei is more powerful than flow, and tells us what it all means for getting a date. He also shows how new research reveals what’s happening in the brain when we’re in a state of wu-wei—why it makes us happy and effective and trustworthy, and how it might have even made civilization possible.
Through stories of mythical creatures and drunken cart riders, jazz musicians and Japanese motorcycle gangs, Slingerland effortlessly blends Eastern thought and cutting-edge science to show us how we can live more fulfilling lives. Trying Not To Try is mind-expanding and deeply pleasurable, the perfect antidote to our striving modern culture.
Reseñas de la Crítica
"Looks like a self-help book, but it’s actually an insightful and lucid introduction to some of the most fruitful ideas in ancient Chinese philosophy."—Julian Baggini, The Guardian
"Edward Slingerland treats us to a work of seminal importance. Yet never was there such an important book that takes itself so lightly. Slingerland explains the correspondence between ancient Chinese philosophical ideas about wu-wei, or doing by not doing, and modern neuroscience."—Huffington Post
"Trying not to Try is an enlightening introduction to the often misunderstood mindset of wu-wei, the 'being in the moment' that is the key to Eastern wisdom. Slingerland's volume is an invaluable guide to anyone on the quest for a full life, lived spontaneously."—Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, author of Flow
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How do you make a change in your life when the tools you used to rely on start letting you down? Whether we’re struggling with a problem, a bad habit, or life in general, we often think we need to “tough it out” or “try harder.” But when we do that, our brains double down on the patterns that got us stuck in the first place. Fortunately, the science of sensation provides the key.
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Look Again
- The Power of Noticing What Was Always There
- De: Tali Sharot, Cass R. Sunstein
- Narrado por: Imani Jade Powers, Byron Wagner
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Have you ever noticed that what is exciting on Monday tends to become boring on Friday? Even passionate relationships, stimulating jobs, and breathtaking works of art lose their sparkle after a while. As easy as it is to stop noticing what is most wonderful in our lives, it’s also possible to stop noticing what is terrible. People get used to dirty air. They become unconcerned by their own misconduct, blind to inequality, and are more liable to believe misinformation than ever before.
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Great beginning, didn’t quite stick the landing
- De Jacob en 03-27-24
De: Tali Sharot, y otros
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Subtract
- The Untapped Science of Less
- De: Leidy Klotz
- Narrado por: Leidy Klotz, Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 7 h y 15 m
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We pile on “to-dos” but don’t consider “stop-doings”. We create incentives for good behavior, but don’t get rid of obstacles to it. We collect new-and-improved ideas, but don’t prune the outdated ones. Every day, across challenges big and small, we neglect a basic way to make things better: We don’t subtract. Leidy Klotz’s pioneering research shows why.
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Couldn't wait for it to be over
- De Amazon Customer en 06-09-21
De: Leidy Klotz
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Out of Your Mind
- De: Alan Watts
- Narrado por: Alan Watts
- Duración: 14 h y 22 m
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With Out of Your Mind: Essential Listening from the Alan Watts Audio Archives, you are invited to immerse yourself in 12 of this legendary thinker's pinnacle teaching sessions about how to break through the limits of the rational mind and begin expanding your awareness and appreciation for the Great Game unfolding all around us.
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Be careful before buying
- De Amazon Customer en 12-25-16
De: Alan Watts
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The Intelligence Trap
- Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes
- De: David Robson
- Narrado por: Simon Slater
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
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Smart people are not only just as prone to making mistakes as everyone else - they may be even more susceptible to them. This is the "intelligence trap", the subject of David Robson's fascinating and provocative book. The Intelligence Trap explores cutting-edge ideas in our understanding of intelligence and expertise, including "strategic ignorance", "meta-forgetfulness", and "functional stupidity."
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Great except for one big thing
- De J. S. Noel en 12-05-22
De: David Robson
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Becoming Nobody
- The Essential Ram Dass Collection
- De: Ram Dass
- Narrado por: Ram Dass
- Duración: 5 h y 2 m
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This audio collection brings us five essential sessions, featured in the Ram Dass documentary film Becoming Nobody, presented here in their entirety. Each beautifully illuminates a core dimension of Ram Dass’s wisdom. Through teaching stories, true accounts, eye-opening revelations, and his one-of-a-kind sense of humor, this legendary teacher helps show us the way out of the prison of our self-identity - and into the joy of being at once “nobody” and the universal divine at play in the world.
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- De wayne en 12-26-19
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The Idiot
- De: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrado por: Constantine Gregory
- Duración: 24 h y 56 m
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Prince Lyov Nikolayevitch Myshkin is one of the great characters in Russian literature. Is he a saint or just naïve? Is he an idealist or, as many in General Epanchin's society feel, an "idiot"? Certainly his return to St. Petersburg after years in a Swiss clinic has a dramatic effect on the beautiful Aglaia, youngest of the Epanchin daughters, and on the charismatic but willful Nastasya Filippovna. As he paints a vivid picture of Russian society, Dostoyevsky shows how principles conflict with emotions - with tragic results.
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Moments of surprise.
- De Theo en 05-02-18
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The Selfish Gene
- De: Richard Dawkins
- Narrado por: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
- Duración: 16 h y 12 m
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Richard Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the rare distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it. His theories have helped change the whole nature of the study of social biology, and have forced thousands to rethink their beliefs about life.
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Better than print!
- De J. D. May en 07-31-12
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The Way of Zen
- De: Alan Watts
- Narrado por: Jeremy Stockwell
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
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With a rare combination of freshness and lucidity, he delves into the origins and history of Zen to explain what it means for the world today with incredible clarity. Watts saw Zen as “one of the most precious gifts of Asia to the world,” and in The Way of Zen he gives this gift to listeners everywhere.
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Just fantastic.
- De Amazon Customer en 02-10-23
De: Alan Watts
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Motivational Interviewing
- Helping People Change and Grow
- De: William R. Miller PhD, Stephen Rollnick PhD
- Narrado por: Michael Quinlan
- Duración: 9 h y 35 m
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Now in a fully rewritten fourth edition, this is the authoritative presentation of motivational interviewing (MI), the powerful approach to facilitating change. It has been updated and streamlined to be even more user-friendly as a practitioner guide and course text. MI originators William R. Miller and Stephen Rollnick elucidate the four tasks of MI—engaging, focusing, evoking, and planning—and vividly demonstrate what they look like in action. A wealth of vignettes and interview examples illustrate the dos and don'ts of successful implementation in diverse contexts.
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Informative and Interesting
- De Jack Pierce en 08-08-24
De: William R. Miller PhD, y otros
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Good Strategy/Bad Strategy
- The Difference and Why It Matters
- De: Richard Rumelt
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 11 h y 49 m
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Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific and coherent response to - and approach for - overcoming the obstacles to progress. A good strategy works by harnessing and applying power where it will have the greatest effect. Yet, Rumelt shows that there has been a growing and unfortunate tendency to equate Mom-and-apple-pie values, fluffy packages of buzzwords, motivational slogans, and financial goals with “strategy”.
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Good but thin
- De G. London en 01-04-20
De: Richard Rumelt
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The Creative Act
- A Way of Being
- De: Rick Rubin
- Narrado por: Rick Rubin
- Duración: 5 h y 45 m
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Many famed music producers are known for a particular sound that has its day. Rick Rubin is known for something else: creating a space where artists of all different genres and traditions can home in on who they really are and what they really offer. He has made a practice of helping people transcend their self-imposed expectations in order to reconnect with a state of innocence from which the surprising becomes inevitable. Over the years, he has learned that being an artist isn’t about your specific output, it’s about your relationship to the world.
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Rick is Art
- De Ira Henke en 01-17-23
De: Rick Rubin
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Trying Not to Try
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- Gerald W. 'Jerry' LaFleur
- 12-16-22
Excellent resource for better life
Also though provoking introduction to Chinese culture plus a guide to improving our education culture
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- Chris Brooks
- 06-20-24
Wuwei and/is Beginner's Mind
An excellent balancing of ancient scholarship and everday modern experience. The author demystifies the topic while maintaining its complexity.
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-23-17
Insightful look at Eastern "enlightenment"
As someone rais ed as a fentalist form of Christianity from conception, and having later practicrd. Zen, Kundelini Yoga land more, it was very insightful!
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- JB
- 07-07-22
Confuciusion
A reasonably useful commentary on Wu Wei. The many references to Confucius were a distraction.
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- J. Floyd
- 04-14-23
Wooden performance
Couldn’t finish it. Narrator was either a robot or overly processed. Distracted from content. Might be lovely to others, but made it hard to engage.
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- KMM
- 03-09-16
excellent discussion of ancient Chinese philosophy
excellent discussion of the truth-bits of ancient Chinese philosophy and contemporary science to support it.
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- 11-02-21
delightful-more history blended with science
I didn't know what to expect from this book but I found myself pleasantly surprised, engrossed and have discovered a new interest in ancient Chinese religious philosophy
I thought it was going to be a pop science book. the first chapeter or two makes you think "this is going to turn into a weird self help book"
but then it doesn't and it's a fascinating ride through various Chinese philosophies with occasional side bars into neuroscience. highly recommend
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- 03-08-15
Another X-Ray Through the Crystal of Being Human
Strongly resonated with me, and have me a glimpse into Chinese philosophy and worldview. Gave me permission to relax more and let things just happen.
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- Elisabeth Doherty
- 06-27-14
Description misleading
Is there anything you would change about this book?
The history of Chinese philosophy is no doubt interesting and I enjoyed learning about these thinkers. But the book falls far short of the mark when it comes to practical applications for contemporary life. In addition, I found it deeply strange the amount of times dating strategies are mentioned; the author even addresses "The System"and "The Rules".
What could Edward Slingerland have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?
Made the book a more even split between philosophy and practical advice.
What does Marc Cashman bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
He reads with a sense of humor that made the long summaries of history more enjoyable.
Do you think Trying Not to Try needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?
Not really, it just wasn't interesting enough for me to justify reading another book by Slingerland.
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- Vincent Nance
- 09-06-18
GREAT foray into a classic paradox
This book is a detailed, fascinating, well researched discussion of how we can remedy an ages old philosophical paradox.
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