Top Highlights

• self described by Kahneman, this system helps us navigate complex environments while preserving our energies and sanity. The bottom-up mind operates through mind-wandering, open attention.
• Within each of us, the Scribe summons our verbal skills to find the right words, assembles them in grammatically correct sentences, and creates sensible structures. The Scribe manages deadlines and gets the work done. But writers also access intuition, creativity, and empathy. These processes are the domain of the Muse. No matter what genre you wor...
• Rather, our minds are complex assemblages of connections, glued together with dynamic shortcuts and working in ad hoc systems.
• The Scribe and the Muse are shorthand labels for describing intentional and intuitive mental processes.
• mentioned in this book, check out the following: Thinking Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman, is a treasure trove of insight into the multitude of mysterious ways that we make decisions. Dan Ariely’s Predictably Irrational debunks the myth of the rational self, while demonstrating the consistency of the automatic systems.