Summary
Summary
At home or work, do you find yourself in similar conflicts or situations again and again? Do your relationships seem fine-but you sometimes wonder if those around you might disagree? On an immediate level, have you ever wished for greater clarity, depth, and delight in all of your experiences?"It's much easier to see the unconscious and self-defeating habits of others than our own," Kelly Boys notes, "and perceptually, to miss so much that's happening around us."In this compelling book, listeners will explore our many kinds of "blind spots," from the physical to the interpersonal: how we get them, how to reveal them, and how to work with our newfound awareness.Drawing upon neuroscience, meditation research, true personal accounts, and more, The Blind Spot Effect invites us into this hidden world.What unfolds is both a learning journey and a practice guide to bring our own unseen dimensions to light, learn from them, and help others along the way.
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Publisher's Weekly Review
This worthwhile debut from Boys, who helped launch Google's "Search Inside Yourself" mindfulness program, lays out a self-help plan designed to address the personal "blind spots" that distort people's thinking. "We are all like Hiroo in some way, blindly defending something that does not need defending anymore," says Boys, referring to a Japanese intelligence officer who, stranded on an island in the Philippines after WWII, did not learn for decades that the war had ended. A blind spot can be a compulsion to be liked, a "recycled" or recurrent emotion like anxiety, or a feeling of unworthiness-any unconscious driver of self-destructive behaviors. The author draws on the work of prominent psychologists, such as Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky (the subjects of Michael Lewis's 2016 book The Undoing Project), and mindfulness teachers, such as Jon Kabat-Zinn, to discuss how readers can get to "home base"-a state of honesty with oneself and access to one's intuition. Boys's prose does not sparkle, but it is persuasive, and readers will appreciate the series of meditation practices provided. This book takes a simple idea and drives it home. (July) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.