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"Holmes... debuts with a provocative analysis of the roots of uncertainty... The author's bright anecdotes and wide-ranging research stories are certain to please many readers."—Kirkus Reviews"This isn't really about 'nonsense,' as in silliness, but about ambiguity—when it's helpful, when it's not; and how people react to it for good or ill... The many fans of the work of Malcolm Gladwell... will enjoy this readable and thought-provoking work."—Library Journal (starred)"By clearly staking out his thesis and exploring the topic with a dash of mischief, Holmes convincingly demonstrates that stressful situations can cause us to cling more steadfastly to our beliefs and discard unwelcome information, but he also offers a primer on how to combat these natural tendencies. While life is full of nonsense, managing our response to uncertainty makes all the sense in the world."—Booklist"An extremely useful primer for anyone who wants to better understand the complicated ways ambiguity affects human decision-making."—New York Magazine"Holmes is a fine writer and a clear thinker who leads us through the uses of confusion in art, business, medicine, engineering, police work and family life... If we want people to be prepared for the work of life and of living together, we should encourage lessons in the art of skepticism." —Washington Post"If you're hard-wired to know and want to get more comfortable not knowing, this book will guide you down that long, dark hall."—Charlotte Observer“Uncomfortable with ambiguity? Maybe you shouldn’t be. In this energetic, tale-filled, fascinating tour of a broad horizon, Jamie Holmes shows that people often prosper when and because they are uncertain. A persuasive argument, but one thing is clear: You’ll learn a lot from this book.” —Cass R. Sunstein, professor, Harvard University, and coauthor of Nudge “Jamie Holmes has written a refreshing, lively book sparkling with insights and entertaining stories that illustrate how the mind deals with ambiguity. And he makes the case well that how we manage ambiguity both as individuals and as a species is critical to our future success.” —Peter Bergen, author of Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad “How do we make sense of the nonsensical? Extract meaning from endless ambiguity? In Nonsense, Jamie Holmes takes us on an engrossing journey into the mind’s ability to process the murky world around us. From women’s hemlines to Nazi spies, Henri Matisse to Anton Chekhov, Holmes is an entertaining guide into the vagaries of our comprehension of reality—and the power we can derive from nonsense, if only we give it a chance.” —Maria Konnikova, author of Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes “A book of astonishing stories and deep insights into how people deal with ambiguity, a subject that has troubled human beings forever, and never mattered more than it does now.” —Peter Beinart, associate professor, CUNY, columnist for The Atlantic and HaaretzFrom the Hardcover edition.
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About the Author
Jamie Holmes is a Future Tense Fellow at New America and a former Research Coordinator at Harvard University in the Department of Economics. He holds an M.I.A. from Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs and his writing has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, Slate, Politico, the Christian Science Monitor, The New Republic, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and the Daily Beast.
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Product details
Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Broadway Books; Reprint edition (October 11, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0385348398
ISBN-13: 978-0385348393
Product Dimensions:
5.2 x 0.7 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
3.9 out of 5 stars
73 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#49,975 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
I began Nonsense with great enthusiasm. For the first 25 pages or so, I was enthralled. But by page 100, it became clear that this book was primarily a collection of well-written anecdotes and paraphrases of published research. Together these made for snippets of interesting reading- and interesting tidbits to share at social functions. But they weren't powerful enough to overcome the overall lack of a meaningful point.Ultimately, Holmes offers some wise cautions against rushing headlong into decision. For instance:"When making a decision, make a habit of consciously considering your stress level at the time. Are you feeling rushed? Are you tired? Are you having personal problems? Formalize reminders of how different kinds of anxiety affect your decisions and the consequences of those judgments" (80).Certainly this is good advise, but it doesn't warrant an entire book. An article would suffice.
This book definitely wanders. I'd actually like to know more about what the author believes, and not just a bunch of anecdotes. It doesn't seem like he bothers to tie everything together in a way that makes sense. It's okay to have a lot of qualitative evidence and stories...but at least connect the dots? I loved an NPR interview that I read with Holmes but the book just did not live up to expectations.
It's a nice fresh topic: How does uncertainly and ambiguity affect us? The studies that Holmes covers are also relatively new and definitely interesting. The real stumbling block for me is that the book often jumped around and was divided into so many little sections that it was difficult to maintain momentum and interest.
This is a pleasant read, though not very deep. I feel the book could have been reduced to a third of its actual length. Still it has some important insights that, anyhow, have been developed much better elsewhere, viz, Fogelin's "Walking the tightrope of Reason..."
I loved Jamie Holmes writing style because I love Malcolm Gladwell's. Engaging, immersive anecdotes that reveal the major themes at deeper and deeper levels. Extremely well researched. Once I was done reading the book, I started reading it again from the beginning to let the themes sink in at a deeper level. This book has important implications for how we teach our children. Do our students always expect problems to have one clear answer? Based on most classrooms, the answer is "yes." How do we prepare our students for the ambiguity of the real world? I am discussing this book with my teaching colleagues for how to change our classrooms.
Holmes employs a wide range of sources to illustrate his ideas in this provocative book....I mean, spies, scientists, shrinks, artists and especially brilliant storytellers. The view that acknowledged uncertainty is the closest we often get to "knowing" is both satisfying and challenging. I will now read this again! A true intellectual thrill.
This was our book group selection for Sunday January 17, 2016. We did enjoy the book and the discussion though a larger than normal number of us were absent for not reading the book or travel purposes. I found it amazing how focused many were on the 15 questions that are supposed to measure how tolerant you are of ambiguity. I found the questions too ambiguous to be valuable especially since they are self-graded questions. How ambiguous that makes it! When pressed I chose three as my rating for me for all of them giving me a score of 45. But even in the discussion ensuing I found everyone taking the questions in such ambiguous ways that what was most obvious was that all of the members of the group were really very comfortable with ambiguity. Considering they are also all members of the Anchorage Unitarian Universalist Fellowship – perhaps the sect with the most ambiguous principles – that should not have been in doubt. So what is the take away of this interesting selection of stories about how individuals more tolerant of ambiguity end up doing better in certain situations? From events like Waco, finding Nazis, selling clothing, and dealing with cultural differences, the measures seem to indicate more power to those who are either genetically predisposed to deal with cognitive dissonance well instead of getting angry or antsy to those who perhaps can learn to have such an acceptance disposition by learning multiple languages (perhaps the most interesting chapter to me) we get the sense that acceptance of complexity is the more mature, more progressive, characteristic to have.
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