Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1 Forgetting: Why You Won't Remember the Contents of This Book-Thereby Retaining the Most Important Information Chapter 2 Learning: Why We Are Bad at Rote Learning, but Better at Understanding the World Chapter 3 Memory: Why a False Memory Is Better Than None at All Chapter 4 Blackout: Why We Choke under Pressure and the Secret Formula for Fending off Stage Fright Chapter 5 Time: Why We Always Misjudge It-Thereby Forging Valuable Memories Chapter 6 Boredom: Why We Have Trouble Switching Ourselves off-and How Daydreams Evoke the Muse Chapter 7 Distraction: Why We Are so Flighty and Which Distractions Can Lead to More Creativity Chapter 8 Mathematics: Why the Brain Calculates Best without Numbers Chapter 9 Decisions: Why We Risk Too Much-and yet Still Choose Wisely Chapter 10 Selection: Why Choosing Is Akin to Torture-Though We Still Manage to Select the Right Option Chapter 11 Pigeonholing: How Prejudices Can Help Us, How They Can Harm Us-and How to Avoid Stereotypical Pitfalls Chapter 12 Motivation: How Our Inner Critic Limits Us-and How We Can Inspire Others Chapter 13 Creativity: Why We Can't Be Innovative at the Push of a Button-and yet We Always Have New Thoughts Chapter 14 Perfectionism: Why We Need Mistakes in Order to Improve
An Amazon.com Best Science Book of 2019!
Runnerup — 2020 Reading the West Book Awards!
Named a Notable Book by the 2019 Sigurd F. Olson Nature
Writing Awards!
“[McIntyre's] greatest strength is the quiet respect and wonder
with which he regards his subjects, a quality clearly informed by
decades of careful watching."
—Publishers Weekly
“Rick's book [The Rise of Wolf 8] is a goldmine for information on
all aspects of wolf behavior and clearly shows they are clever,
smart, and emotional beings."
—Psychology Today
“The main attraction of this book, though, is the storytelling
about individual wolves, including the powerful origin story of one
of Yellowstone’s greatest and most famous wolves."
—Washington Post
“Yellowstone’s resident wolf guru Rick McIntyre has been many
things to many people: an expert tracker for the park’s biologists,
an indefatigable roadside interpreter for visitors, and an
invaluable consultant to countless chronicles of the park’s
wolves—including my own. But he is first and foremost a storyteller
whose encyclopedic knowledge of Yellowstone’s wolf reintroduction
project—now in its 25th year—is unparalleled.”
—Nate Blakeslee, New York Times bestselling author of American Wolf
RICK MCINTYRE has spent more than fifty years watching wolves in
America’s national parks, twenty-five of those years in
Yellowstone, where he has accumulated over 100,000 wolf sightings
and educated the public about the park’s most famous wolves. He has
spoken about the Yellowstone wolves with 60 Minutes, NPR, and CBC,
and he is profiled extensively in Nate Blakeslee’s American Wolf
and in international publications. He lives in Silver Gate,
Montana.
ROBERT REDFORD—actor, director, and producer—has been a passionate
art and environmental activist since the early 1970s. He has been
an advocate for climate change awareness, clean energy, and habitat
protection for over forty years.
An Amazon.com Best Science Book of 2019!Runnerup — 2020 Reading the
West Book Awards!Named a Notable Book by the 2019 Sigurd F. Olson
Nature Writing Awards!“[McIntyre's] greatest strength is the quiet
respect and wonder with which he regards his subjects, a quality
clearly informed by decades of careful watching."
—Publishers Weekly“Rick's book [The Rise of Wolf 8] is a goldmine
for information on all aspects of wolf behavior and clearly shows
they are clever, smart, and emotional beings."
—Psychology Today“The main attraction of this book, though, is the
storytelling about individual wolves, including the powerful origin
story of one of Yellowstone’s greatest and most famous wolves."
—Washington Post“Yellowstone’s resident wolf guru Rick McIntyre has
been many things to many people: an expert tracker for the park’s
biologists, an indefatigable roadside interpreter for visitors, and
an invaluable consultant to countless chronicles of the park’s
wolves—including my own. But he is first and foremost a storyteller
whose encyclopedic knowledge of Yellowstone’s wolf reintroduction
project—now in its 25th year—is unparalleled.”
—Nate Blakeslee, New York Times bestselling author of American Wolf
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