Before Words is a field manual for adults who have noticed that their thinking has narrowed into a stream of inner talking and who want to recover other ways of knowing. Drawing on cognitive science, contemplative tradition, and the experience of artists, athletes, and craftspeople, the book treats nonverbal cognition not as a fringe topic but as a major underused capacity in the modern adult mind. Through more than fifty short exercises across twelve chapters, organized into a six-week practice schedule, the reader learns to delay labeling, sustain perception, rotate objects mentally, take other perspectives, imitate without narrating, work through the hands, sense quantity and pattern wordlessly, and move between verbal and nonverbal modes on purpose. The book makes a careful case that these capacities are trainable in adulthood, that the training produces visible gains in perception, manual skill, spatial reasoning, and decision-making, and that the larger effect on how a person experiences their own mind is significant enough to be worth taking seriously. It is a practical book, not a theoretical one, written for readers who want to do something rather than read about something. It assumes no special background and uses only ordinary objects.
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Before Words is a field manual for adults who have noticed that their thinking has narrowed into a stream of inner talking and who want to recover other ways of knowing. Drawing on cognitive science, contemplative tradition, and the experience of artists, athletes, and craftspeople, the book treats nonverbal cognition not as a fringe topic but as a major underused capacity in the modern adult mind. Through more than fifty short exercises across twelve chapters, organized into a six-week practice schedule, the reader learns to delay labeling, sustain perception, rotate objects mentally, take other perspectives, imitate without narrating, work through the hands, sense quantity and pattern wordlessly, and move between verbal and nonverbal modes on purpose. The book makes a careful case that these capacities are trainable in adulthood, that the training produces visible gains in perception, manual skill, spatial reasoning, and decision-making, and that the larger effect on how a person experiences their own mind is significant enough to be worth taking seriously. It is a practical book, not a theoretical one, written for readers who want to do something rather than read about something. It assumes no special background and uses only ordinary objects. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798197256744
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