Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights:#1 The effects of mindfulness and mindlessness are so common that few of us appreciate their importance or make use of their power to change our lives. Mindlessness and its counterpart, mindfulness, are the subjects of this book.#2 We all allow ourselves to become mindless at times. Some concert pianists memorize their music away from the keyboard so as to avoid the predicament in which their fingers know the music but they do not.#3 Because rigidly following set rules and being mindful are by definition incompatible, this book will not offer prescriptions. Instead, it will explore the implications of these ideas in different fields.