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Title: Embracing the Wide Sky
Subtitle: A Tour Across the Horizons of the Mind
Author: Daniel Tammet
Narrator: Daniel Gerroll
Format: Abridged
Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-23-09
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 49 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind
Publisher's Summary:
Tammet explains that the differences between savant and non-savant minds have been exaggerated; his astonishing capacities in memory, math, and language are neither due to a cerebral supercomputer nor any genetic quirk, but are rather the results of a highly rich and complex associative form of thinking and imagination. Autistic thought, he argues, is an extreme variation of a kind that we all do, from daydreaming to the use of puns and metaphors.
Embracing the Wide Sky combines meticulous scientific research with Tammet's detailed descriptions of how his mind works to demonstrate the immense potential within us all. He explains how our natural intuitions can help us to learn a foreign language, why his memories are like symphonies, and what numbers and giraffes have in common. We also discover why there is more to intelligence than IQ, how optical illusions fool our brains, and why too much information can make you dumb.
Many readers will be particularly intrigued by Tammet's original ideas concerning the genesis of genius and exceptional creativity. He illustrates his arguments with examples as diverse as the private languages of twins, the compositions of poets with autism, and the breakthroughs, and breakdowns, of some of history's greatest minds.