Reddit reviews Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: How Intelligence Increases When You Think Less

If you liked this article, might I suggest a couple books. They literally changed how I see myself and other people. I know people brag about books "changing their life", but these books force you to realize how little control you actually have over your mind, and assess whether that control is actually productive. The subconscious is a fascinating subject.

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Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: How Intelligence Increases When You Think Less

I imagine it's something like the book, "Thinking Fast and Slow."
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374533555/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_t0vuDbFEVXZKZ

Or "Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind."

Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: How Intelligence Increases When You Think Less
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0060955414/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_I1vuDbKS6BF9X

Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind explains why your best ideas come to you in the shower.

There are problems with the IQ tests, even though there are correlations with income, standards of living, education, etc... it still promotes some rather archaic notions about intelligence and thinking patterns. For instance, IQ tests are timed, correct? Problem with this is that timed-tests encourage rapid thinking (similar to debates and other such nonsense) which eliminates the subconscious 'tortoise' mind from the equation. Here's a book written about this very thing:

https://www.amazon.com/Hare-Brain-Tortoise-Mind-Intelligence/dp/0060955414

I'm not saying IQ tests aren't efficient in terms of correlation, however one can seriously doubt and be skeptical that we have intelligence figured out to such a degree where we could measure it so precisely. There's reasons why geniuses like Chomsky and the like don't take IQ tests too seriously, even Bill Gates stopped obsessing over them during the middle of his Microsoft run. [Although may be it was PC pressure since IQ tests tend to favor Ashkenazis, Whites, and East Asians?]

Due to very low levels of education, many African Nations have the lowest IQ scores in the world, on average

Africans score roughly the same in nations that don't have "very low levels of education." Australian abo's score something like an average of 70 despite living in Australia. Much of this is due to the fact they've literally done nothing but be paleolithic hunter gatherers for the past 60,000 years until the British arrived basically. Their culture never counted beyond three and had really no use for something like abstract thinking to any large degree.