Everyone Is Talking About This Stuff

As I was mulling over the idea of writing this book, I started to notice that a lot of people in different disciplines were talking about the topics in which I was interested. But these were in very different and diverse areas, including the following:

  • MBA and executive-level training

  • Cognitive science research

  • Learning theory

  • Nursing, health care, aviation, and other professions and industries

  • Yoga and meditative practices

  • Programming, abstraction, and problem solving

  • Artificial intelligence research

When you start to find the same set of ideas—the same common threads—showing up in different guises in these very different areas, that’s usually a sign. There must be something fundamental and very ...

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