The Art Of Organizing Thoughts : Slow Wisdom For a Fast World – Shigehiko Toyama (Hardcover)

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First published in Japan in 1983, Shigehiko Toyama’s classic, now translated into English by Arthur Reiji Morris, argues that piling up knowledge does not make us wise. The more information we take in, the easier it becomes to stop thinking for ourselves.

Toyama contrasts “gliders”, people who only move when pushed by instructions, with “airplanes”, who power their own thinking. He shows how to become the second kind: by letting ideas mature slowly, stepping away from a problem and sleeping on it, and forgetting on purpose to keep the mind clear and creative. A calm, wise antidote to information overload and hustle culture.