作品简介

　　股票交易员如何通过练习身体扫描、精准描述感受等训练，大幅提升业绩？医生如何通过把自己的身体当作雷达捕捉患者无法用言语表达出的病情，达成更准确的诊断？普利策奖得主如何在一面墙上绘制错综复杂的写作大纲，从而完成厚达4000页的历史巨著？管理者如何挣脱《乌合之众》带来的偏见，大大提升应对当今社会复杂性的能力？事实上，更好的思考，意味着更少地使用大脑，学着把整个世界变成你思维的延伸，你将获得超越性的思考能力。

　　AGI时代呼啸而来，面对人机协作的生存周期，重新理解大脑的个体意义具体而深远。大脑不是计算机、肌肉，而是喜鹊，这个形象的比喻揭示了“思考”的原理——延展思维决定思考力。延展思维的本质是情境认知的扩展，思考力来自在具体场景中的刻意练习。去建立延展思维的场景智慧，我们才能真正进入人机共生的新常态。

　　作者基于认知科学、心理学、生物学等领域的最新研究，为我们揭开了大幅提升思考能力的大脑秘密：借助大脑之外的事物思考。我们将从三个方面开启这项了不起的变革：通过具身认知、情境认知和分布式认知来大幅拓展心智和思维，并基于此来逐一领会其中诸多简单而有效的实践方法，你将在这趟饱含传奇性和科学性的阅读之旅中，轻松而愉快地学会事半功倍的思考方式。

　　安妮·墨菲·保罗，知名科普作家、记者，毕业于耶鲁大学和哥伦比亚大学新闻研究生院，目前是新美国学习科学交流中心（LSX）的研究员，美国全国公共广播电台（NPR）及其王牌播客“隐藏的大脑”（Hidden Brain）的资深主笔。

　　曾任耶鲁大学讲师及普尔沃教育与学习中心高级顾问、《今日心理学》高级编辑，荣获罗莎琳·卡特精神健康新闻奖学金、伯纳德·施瓦茨奖学金、斯宾塞教育奖学金和新美国未来式奖学金等重要奖项。

　　在心理学、认知科学和生物学的科普领域卓有建树，已出版《思考如何超越思考》《子宫里的起跑线》《个人崇拜》等著作，作品广泛见于《时代》《纽约时报》《纽约时报书评》《波士顿环球报》《科学美国人》《石板》《探索》《健康》等主流媒体。在世界各地广泛讲授关于学习和认知的新科学，其TED演讲已有超过260万人观看。

　　译者：吴艳红，北京大学心理与认知科学学院、机器感知与智能教育部重点实验室教授，行为与心理健康北京市重点实验室副主任，北京大学心理与认知科学学院学位委员会主任，教育部特聘教授，博士生导师。

Introduction of works

How can stock traders dramatically improve their performance by practicing body scans and accurately describing their feelings? How can doctors make more accurate diagnoses by using their bodies as radar to catch what patients can't put into words? How did a Pulitzer Prize winner draw an intricate writing outline on one wall to complete a 4,000-page history tome? How can managers break away from the Mob bias and dramatically improve their ability to deal with the complexities of today's society? In fact, thinking better means using your brain less, learning to turn the whole world into an extension of your mind, and you will gain the ability to think beyond.

AGI era comes roaring, in the face of human-machine collaboration survival cycle, the individual understanding of the brain has specific and far-reaching significance. The brain is not a computer, a muscle, but a magpie, this image of the metaphor reveals the principle of "thinking" - extended thinking determines thinking power. The essence of extended thinking is the expansion of situational cognition, and thinking power comes from deliberate practice in specific scenes. To establish the scene wisdom of extended thinking, we can truly enter the new normal of human-machine symbiosis.

Based on the latest research in cognitive science, psychology, biology and other fields, the author reveals the brain's secret to greatly improving our thinking ability: thinking with the help of things outside the brain. We will begin this remarkable transformation in three ways: through embodied cognition, situational cognition, and distributed cognition to greatly expand the mind and thinking, and based on this, to understand the many simple and effective practices, you will easily and happily learn to do more with less in this legendary and scientific reading journey.

Annie Murphy Paul is a popular science writer and journalist who graduated from Yale and Columbia Graduate Schools of Journalism. She is currently a research fellow at the New American Learning Science Exchange (LSX) and a senior writer for NPR and its flagship podcast, Hidden Brain.

He is a former lecturer at Yale University and Senior Advisor to the Pulver Center for Education and Learning, senior editor of Psychology Today, and recipient of major awards such as the Rosalynn Carter Scholarship in Mental Health Journalism, the Bernard Schwartz Scholarship, the Spencer Scholarship in Education, and the New America Future Scholarship.

He has made great achievements in the field of popular science in psychology, cognitive science and biology, and has published books such as Thinking Beyond Thinking, The Starting Line in the Womb, and the Cult of Personality. His works have been widely published in mainstream media such as Time, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Boston Globe, Scientific American, SLATE, Discovery, and Health. The new science of learning and cognition is widely taught around the world, and his TED talks have been watched by more than 2.6 million people.

Yanhong Wu is Professor of the Key Laboratory of Machine Perception and Intelligence of the Ministry of Education, School of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University; Deputy Director of the Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health; Director of the Degree Committee of the School of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University; Special Professor and doctoral supervisor of the Ministry of Education.