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Autopilot: The Art & Science Of Doing Nothing (2013)

by Andrew Smart(Favorite Author)

3.45 of 5 Votes: 4

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English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

OR Books

review 1: The concept and allure of Autopilot is attention-grabbing but the ultimate confusion, unless you have a PhD and can understand most of the terms, will have you going off autopilot to change course fast! Andrew Smart has an copiousness of knowledge in the brain arena but the notion of "spacing off" to set yourself free of work and drown in creativity is not only far-fetched for most hard working people but might even be a stretch for the "artsy" crowd that will live on the street to achieve a creative state. Now I am not saying that the idea of "daydreaming" doesn't provide us an avenue to think up some pretty fascinating things but to think that it can replace organizational skills and management ability to get to the top is ludicrous! Even a talented artist or theoreti... morecal scientist still has to perform hard work to realize the dream of success. If you have a PhD or you out to gather some cool brain terminology than this is the book for you otherwise get back to work!
review 2: This short book ad its ups and downs. I found the majority of the book quite interesting, particularly when it focused on neuroscience and the parallels between your neurons and the way ant colonies work, and how that parallel does not extend to individuals. The idea that noise could improve a non-linear system like a brain was interesting, and I would like to see some of the ideas expressed here fleshed out a bit more. The end of the book sort of took a left turn, though, with an emphasis on why six sigma techniques don't work. While I happen to agree that they do not, that section felt tacked on, and didn't really mesh very well with the rest of the book. I could see the connection the author was making, but it was a bit tenuous, and I think the two ideas would have been helped by making two separate, and slightly longer books. Still, there were some interesting ideas here, that I may pursue elsewhere, or perhaps I'll just try doing nothing for a change.... less

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