The Net and the Butterfly: The Art and Practice of Breakthrough Thinking

by Olivia Fox Cabane and Judah Pollack

Book Overview

In The Charisma Myth, Olivia Fox Cabane offered a groundbreaking approach to becoming more charismatic. Now she teams up with Judah Pollack to reveal how anyone can train their brain to have more eureka insights. The creative mode in your brain is like a butterfly. It's beautiful and erratic, hard to catch and highly valued as a result. If you want to capture it, you need a net. Enter the executive mode, the task-oriented network in your brain that help you tie your shoes, run a meeting, or pitch a client. To succeed, you need both modes to work together--your inner butterfly to be active and free, but your inner net to be ready to spring at the right time and create that aha! moment. But is there any way to trigger these insights, beyond dumb luck? Thanks to recent neuroscience discoveries, we can now explain these breakthrough moments--and also induce them through a series of specific practices. It turns out there's a hidden pattern to all these seemingly random breakthrough ideas.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591847192
• ISBN13: 9781591847199
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Portfolio
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"