Thought in action : expertise and the conscious mind / Barbara Gail Montero.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Montero, Barbara Gail, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thought and thinking.

Performance.

Consciousness.

Performance anxiety.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 288 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Expertise and the conscious mind /

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

It is widely held that thinking about what you are doing, as you are doing it, hinders performance. But is this true? Barbara Gail Montero explores real-life examples and draws on psychology, neuroscience, and literature to develop a theory of expertise that emphasises the role of the conscious mind in expert action.

Contents:

Preface

Acknowledgments. Introduction: what can a philosopher tell you about expertise?

"Don't think, dear; just do" and other manifestations of the just-do-it principle

Just-do-it versus cognition-in-action

What is an expert?

Does thinking interfere with doing?

Thinking fast

Continuous improvement

You can't try too hard

Effortlessness with effort

The pleasure of movement and the awareness of the self

The aesthetic experience of expert movement

Intuition, rationality, and chess expertise

Sex, drugs, rock and roll, and the meaning of life. Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 2, 2016).

ISBN:

0-19-182230-2