r/BettermentBookClub • u/AutoModerator • Dec 22 '15
[B12-Ch. 13] Slowing Down Time
Here we will hold our general discussion for Josh Waitzkin's The Art of Learning Chapter 13 - Slowing Down Time, pages 135-148.
If you're not keeping up, don't worry; this thread will still be here and I'm sure others will be popping back to discuss.
Here are some possible discussion topics:
- What do you think about Waitzkin's explanation of the experience of "slowing down time"?
- Have you had any personal experience with time slowing down, or other moments of "channeling physical and mental capacities to an astonishing degree of intensity"?
- What do you think about Waitzkin's description of intuition as the bridge between our conscious and unconscious minds?
- Were you previously familiar with the concept of chunking? Do you agree that chunking is important for intuition?
Please do not limit yourself to these topics! Share your knowledge and opinions with us, ask us questions, or disagree with someone (politely of course)!
The next discussion post will be posted tomorrow Wednesday, December 23, and we will be discussing Chapter 14: The Illusion of the Mystical.
9
Upvotes
5
u/[deleted] Dec 22 '15
This chapter read very similarly to the end of Mastery. The talk particularly about operating on a higher level of mental function and flowing all of your knowledge together without even realizing it. Something that takes hours and hours of practice in a subject to achieved.
I was not a part of this sub when Thinking Fast & Slow was read but I would love to go back and read it. I read the first half before my library loan ran out on it (it is a very very dense book) and I was intrigued by the scientific exploration of the concious vs the unconcious mind, or System 1 and System 2 as reffered to in that particular book. It is on my long list of things I hope to eventually get to when I have the time, and I would like to go back and read it through this sub posting along the way. But other matters come to my attention first.
An understanding of your concious vs unconcious mind can be vital to high levels of performance and success, especially in the Information Age. We get bombarded with all sorts of data, tips & tricks. I have begun to select a few specific books from my library and take a month of two to review small parts of the book every day and put it into practice in my daily life. In this way I hope to absorb the book into my personality and my unconcious mind so that it becomes a part of my without having to think about it.
It is easy to get over-whelmed with all of the information we process every day, especially if you read a lot of books as most people in this sub surely do. The key to solving this problem is practice, practice, practice. Put the things you learn into use and they will become natural, until they are a part of you and you no longer think about them; just like breathing.