# Trying Not to Try

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- Book: [Trying Not to Try](https://www.bookquiver.com/edward-slingerland/trying-not-to-try) ([Trying Not to Try.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/edward-slingerland/trying-not-to-try.md))
- Authors: [Edward Slingerland](https://www.bookquiver.com/edward-slingerland)
- Publisher: crown
- ISBN: 978-07-7043-763-3
- Pages: 304
- Published: 2015-03-03
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A deeply original exploration of the power of spontaneity—an ancient Chinese ideal that cognitive scientists are only now beginning to understand—and why it is so essential to our well-being...