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Unthink: All You Have To Do Is Nothing
UNTHINK, All You Have To Do Is Nothing is about unblocking the subconscious and allowing it to guide your navigation of this reality. Thinking requires focus, but unthinking demands choosing courage and suspended judgment over comfort. "Proprioception of thought" is a term and concept first suggested by the brilliant late physicist David Bohm. UNTHINK advocates for breaking the compulsory "thinking" cycle by triangulating awareness, observation, and the voice in your head in the proper order to pinpoint a truer reality and clearer picture of now and tomorrow. Joining Indigenous ways of knowing (IWOK) with Western ways and science, UNTHINK weaves seminal research, practical advice, and storytelling to teach you to build intellectual and emotional muscle. Examining the critical art of unthinking, UNTHINK reveals that we don't have to believe everything we think or internalize everything we feel. It lets go of un-serving views and prizes mental flexibility over foolish consistency. What if you could distinguish intuition from bias, memory from awareness, observation from reflexive thought? You can, and I can teach you how. UNTHINK will keep its promise to take you on a journey and deliver you to a new destination, changed in the end. Get out of your head; start UNTHINK-ing!
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Published February 15, 2023
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December 23, 2023
Stop! Unthink! Learn to balance your rational and intuitive creative brains
Change!
Extreme weather, new infectious diseases that makes living, traveling and doing business in the usual way difficult, mass migration, territorial wars fought to turn back boundaries to those of years long gone, conflicts between globalism and nationalism, federalism and localism, one world homogenization and tribalism, we live in a world that is seemingly turned upside down.
And yet our individual brains, and our organizational models have gotten used to behaving as if the world were a steady state when we could just rationally do what we’ve always done.
Dr. Eric Zabiegalski, in his book Unthink shows us the folly of this pattern. He tells us to stop our brains from blindly following what he calls the “exploitation” pattern, get on the same page and follow the plan and move to a model that includes more “exploration,” observe, become aware, connect freely. In short we need to “Unthink.”
“Breaking set” is never easy, for organizations or individuals, but it is possible. Dr Zabiegalski builds upon his work on ambidextrous organization and the work of quantum mechanics pioneer, Dr. David Bohm to show us how to begin this process, to balance our brain’s intuitive capability with its analytical and rational implementation abilities.
The author doesn’t argue for an individual or business brain pattern that is either exploitation or exploration, but a balance between the two -50-50? 60-40?-20-80? It depends.
These ideas resonate with me, even though Dr. Zabiegalski and I come from different backgrounds, read different books and use different vocabulary. I found this book mind stretching and came up with five or six concrete strategies to improve my life. I recommend it.
Change!
Extreme weather, new infectious diseases that makes living, traveling and doing business in the usual way difficult, mass migration, territorial wars fought to turn back boundaries to those of years long gone, conflicts between globalism and nationalism, federalism and localism, one world homogenization and tribalism, we live in a world that is seemingly turned upside down.
And yet our individual brains, and our organizational models have gotten used to behaving as if the world were a steady state when we could just rationally do what we’ve always done.
Dr. Eric Zabiegalski, in his book Unthink shows us the folly of this pattern. He tells us to stop our brains from blindly following what he calls the “exploitation” pattern, get on the same page and follow the plan and move to a model that includes more “exploration,” observe, become aware, connect freely. In short we need to “Unthink.”
“Breaking set” is never easy, for organizations or individuals, but it is possible. Dr Zabiegalski builds upon his work on ambidextrous organization and the work of quantum mechanics pioneer, Dr. David Bohm to show us how to begin this process, to balance our brain’s intuitive capability with its analytical and rational implementation abilities.
The author doesn’t argue for an individual or business brain pattern that is either exploitation or exploration, but a balance between the two -50-50? 60-40?-20-80? It depends.
These ideas resonate with me, even though Dr. Zabiegalski and I come from different backgrounds, read different books and use different vocabulary. I found this book mind stretching and came up with five or six concrete strategies to improve my life. I recommend it.
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