Ways of Attending: How our Divided Brain Constructs the World 1st Edition by Iain McGilchrist (PDF)

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Attention is not just receptive, but actively creative of the world we inhabit. How we attend makes all the difference to the world we experience. And nowadays in the West we generally attend in a rather unusual way: governed by the narrowly focussed, target-driven left hemisphere of the brain.Forget everything you thought you knew about the difference between the hemispheres, because it will be largely wrong. It is not what each hemisphere does – they are both involved in everything – but how it does it, that matters. And the prime difference between the brain hemispheres is the manner in which they attend. For reasons of survival we need one hemisphere (in humans and many animals, the left) to pay narrow attention to detail, to grab hold of things we need, while the other, the right, keeps an eye out for everything else. The result is that one hemisphere is good at utilising the world, the other better at understanding it.Absent, present, detached, engaged, alienated, empathic, broad or narrow, sustained or piecemeal, attention has the power to alter whatever it meets. The play of attention can both create and destroy, but it never leaves its object unchanged. How you attend to something – or don’t attend to it – matters a very great deal. This book helps you to see what it is you may have been trained by our very unusual culture not to see.

User’s Reviews

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐Short, but interesting read.

⭐If accepted, and I believe it to be true, we desperately need the humanities…people need to learn how to read and write — and think critically. Our loss of the appreciation of the Other as well as empathy is making us “objects” and inhuman.

⭐I love Iain McGilchrist’s work, it is massively important. Unfortunately nowhere on the product page does it mention this “book” is actually a reprint of an article published in a scientific magazine. The page count is not mentioned until you scroll down to the product info table. It says 44 pages, but article is only 32 5″x7″ large-type pages. There are 12 pages of forward, title page, TOC, references and 4 blank pages. The only reason I am not returning this for a refund is that I want to support Iain’s work. There is no way I would have paid $23+tax for an article reprint if the product listing had honestly described it.

⭐This is an easy to read summary of “The Master and the Emissary” by the same author. If you don’t have a lot of time or need for detail, this book conveys the gist of the two sides of the brain.

⭐I just finished McGilchrist’s “The Master and his Emissary” and found it to be one of the finest works of research, interpretation, and cross-discipline erudition I’ve ever read. So, I was excited to see he had a newer book on the same topic: “Ways of Attending: “How our Divided Brain Constructs the World”. Unfortunately, my $15 purchase got me a 32-page summary of “The Master and his Emissary”. “Ways of Attending” is a very good summary, but, it’s a summary. A short summary. I’d suggest you spend your money instead on the “The Master and his Emissary”, read the introduction and the conclusion. You’ll learn the same things as offered by “Ways of Attending” in about the same amount of time. And, you’ll also have given yourself the opportunity to spend hours and hours on the read of a lifetime.

⭐Might it be that the dominance of the left hemisphere is reflected in the rise of the left political agenda? Something to explore I think. Further details of McGilchrist’s writings and research is a must.

⭐Clear explanation of our shared cultural confusion. Why our commitment to acquiring things doesn’t make us more feel more successful or help us understand ourselves and each other.

⭐Very interesting. Well written.

⭐This is more like a promo for his main book. You might be expecting a distilled version of all the wisdom but there’s absultely nothing in here of any value what-so-ever, it’s all held back for the main book. This ‘book’ is a joke, more like a pamphlet. Don’t waste your money on it.

⭐Returned. My own fault for not reading the fine print but £15.00 for what is essentially an essay described as a book does seem a little deceptive.

⭐In the world of management, there is a market for ‘potboilers’ – concise summaries of management books that ‘extract the meat’ from them for busy executives who do not have the time to digest the original work itself.This essay by Iain McGilchrist is the author’s own précis of one of the most important books of the past decade. It is eminently readable, and powerfully makes a case that our divided world badly needs to hear.At a time when the idiosyncrasies of human nature pose the greatest threat to the wellbeing of our own species, the metaphor of the Master and his Emissary deserves a prominent position in public discourse. I cannot recommend this little book too highly.

⭐is a scam… a book is not 44 pages….

⭐THE CONTENTS AND REALLY A SUMMARY OF HIS EARLIER BOOK THE MASTER AND HIS EMISSARY THIS BOOK IS VERY SMALL AND I THINK FAR TOO EXPENSIVE FOR WHAT IT IS BUT NOT THE AUTHPOR’S FAULT THE BOOKSELLER

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