The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain - Hardcover

by Annie Murphy Paul (Author)

A New York Times Editors' Choice
A Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of 2021
A New York Times Notable Book

This paradigm-shifting guide to embodied cognition offers a dramatic new view of how our minds work, full of practical advice on how to think better:

• Mind-Body Connection: Learn how to think with the feelings and movements of your body to focus more intently, comprehend more deeply, and create more imaginatively.
• Thinking with Your Environment: Uncover how to use the physical spaces in which you learn and work, and even the natural world, to unlock new ways of solving problems.
• Social Cognition: Tap into the intelligence of those around you, from experts to peers, and discover the power of thinking with your relationships.
• Practical Self-Help Strategies: Go beyond theory with actionable techniques grounded in the findings of neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, and psychologists.

Author Biography

ANNIE MURPHY PAUL is an acclaimed science writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Scientific American, and The Best American Science Writing, among many other publications. She is the author of Origins, selected as a New York Times Notable Book, and The Cult of Personality, hailed by Malcolm Gladwell in the New Yorker as a "fascinating new book." Her TED Talk has been viewed more than 2.6 million times. Paul is a recipient of the Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellowship, the Spencer Education Journalism Fellowship, and the Bernard L. Schwartz Fellowship at New America. A graduate of Yale University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, she is currently a Learning Sciences Exchange Fellow at New America.