About the Book
In a world that seems crazier by the minute, where social and political turmoil, tense police relations, lingering pandemic anxiety, war, terrorism, and active shootings have become daily headlines, where do we find a core of sanity? Better, where can we find an effective method for dealing with irrationality, the source of most of that craziness, whether in others or in ourselves? Traditional comforts--morality, religion, superstition, and their modern counterparts in psychology and philosophy--fall short in an increasingly multi-cultural environment of clashing beliefs, values, and opinions. Even higher education, political idealism, and social reform, once thought to be the solution to all civilization's problems, have let us down.There is something better, something known to work, something that can be taught and learned. The classical Greeks had the germ of the idea, so did the intellects of the Enlightenment, though at the time no one possessed the scientific knowledge to develop that idea into a usable system. Today we finally have enough real, scientific understanding to provide a clearpath to reaching this highest potential, the pinnacle of nature: rational thought and rational conduct.Yet it's rare, in a climate of overspecialization, to find the kind of broad synthesis, the drawing together of multiple disciplines, needed to make sense of it all. We're left with a huge void that needs to be filled. The Principles of Rational Thought and Rational Conduct; A Software Upgrade for Your Mind offers a major step toward that goal.If you're interested in how we think--or how to think--if you've ever wondered why people behave the way they do, or want to improve your own thinking as well as your interaction with others and with the physical world around you in general, this book is for you. Yet you won't want to slog through an unwieldy tome loaded with overly-academic language and specialist jargon. You would welcome an easy-to-grasp distillation of real, practical knowledge from many fields of research, written in plain English, a straightforward, no-frills, point-by-point handbook of principles you can apply to your own life.Welcome to your mind upgrade.
About the Author :
Wade D. Brown is an ex-navy man (navigation and hazardous-detail helm), writer, musician, fitness instructor, small business supervisor, corporate administrative manager, entrepreneur, ESL instructor, and most recently a caregiver for the developmentally disabled. He has an educational background in physics and the natural sciences, English composition, music, and art. --------As a scientific generalist rather than a specialist, and a lifelong autodidact, he has kept abreast of developments in a wide variety of fields, from neuroscience to genetics, quantum physics to cosmology, space flight to planetary ecology, information theory to psychology, cultural anthropology to sociobiology, health and nutrition to meditation and consciousness raising. His other activities include playing jazz guitar and piano, fitness, tennis, martial arts, and investigating spirituality by developing his own method of meditation using the scientific experimental method. --------Besides his overseas travels while in the Navy to Southeast Asia, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Pakistan, New Zealand-from which he developed an abiding interest in and respect for other cultures and ways of being-he has also lived in Honolulu, Los Angeles, San Diego, Madison (Wisconsin), Clearwater (Florida), and recently returned to his home town of Eau Claire, Wisconsin to devote time to his writing.
