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UNCERTAIN
The Wisdom and Wonder of Being Unsure
In a world that's growing more terrifyingly unpredictable, the certain answer seems just right. But while pursuing the secrets to good thinking in scientific laboratories, operating rooms, corporate boardrooms, and on the frontiers of Artificial Intelligence, award-winning author Maggie Jackson realized that in devaluing uncertainty we have been overlooking the crucial missing link to the higher-order mind. Once largely neglected as a topic of study, the newly discovered gifts of not-knowing now fascinate the greatest cognitive scientists and offer us a remarkable antidote to the narrow-mindedness of our day.
UNCERTAIN reveals the cognitive riches that are abandoned in the flight from the unknown and the unsure. Understanding when and how to be unsure is what distinguishes a superior expert from one who is merely good enough, as young doctors are now being taught. An ambivalent executive is far more resourceful in a crisis than the ultra-decisive leaders we admire, research shows. By learning to wield uncertainty with skill and care, we can deftly navigate conflict and surprise, bolster our memory and creative imagination, and gain resilience. Featuring cutting-edge research and in-depth reporting, this paradigm-shifting book shows us how to skillfully confront the unexpected, and how to seek not-knowing in the service of curiosity and discovery.
Maggie Jackson is an award-winning author and journalist of Distracted, winner of the 2020 Dorothy Lee Book Award for excellence in technology criticism and named a Best Summer Book by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, as well as prime inspiration for Google's 2018 global initiative to promote digital well-being. Maggie Jackson has been featured in The New York Times, Business Week, Vanity Fair, amongst others, and in multiple TV segments and film documentaries worldwide. Her speaking career includes appearances at Google and Harvard Business School.
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Published 2023-11-07 by Prometheus |