PRIMAL INTELLIGENCE

PRIMAL INTELIGENCE focuses on a key source of human intelligence: the non-logical, noncomputational brain processes responsible for future thinking and imagination. This "low-data intelligence" is a core driver of leadership, innovation, and resilience. It helps us solve complex and open-ended problems, anticipate the future faster, experience less anxiety and anger, and rebound quicker from failure.

The book presents story exercises for training the low-data regions of your brain, improving your leadership, your powers of innovation, and your overall resilience. These are big claimsbut they have been validated by independent research trials run by the US Army and have been published in leading academic journals, from Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences to the Harvard Business Review. They have been embraced by executives at some of the world's biggest and most creative companies, and they have been validated on scientific trials with students as young as eight.

Angus Fletcher is a professor of story science at The Ohio State University's Project Narrative, the world's leading academic think tank for the study of how stories work. He is the author of Wonderworks and Storythinking.