Embracing the Wide Sky, Daniel Tammet
Embracing the Wide Sky, Daniel Tammet
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Embracing the Wide Sky
A Tour Across the Horizons of the Mind

Author: Daniel Tammet

Narrator: Daniel Gerroll

Abridged: 6 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/06/2009


Synopsis


From the New York Times bestselling author of Born on a Blue Day...

Owner of "the most remarkable mind on the planet" (Entertainment Weekly), Daniel Tammet captivated audiences and won worldwide critical acclaim with his 2007 memoir Born on a Blue Day and its vivid depiction of a life with autistic savant syndrome. In his fascinating new work, he writes with characteristic clarity and personal awareness as he sheds light on the mysteries of savants' incredible mental abilities -- and our own.

Daniel Tammet explains that the differences between savant and nonsavant minds have been exaggerated; his astonishing capacities in memory, math and language are due to neither a cerebral supercomputer nor any genetic quirk, but are rather the results of a highly rich and complex associative form of thinking and imagination. Autistic thought, he argues, is an extreme variation of a kind that we all do, from daydreaming to the use of puns and metaphors.

Embracing the Wide Sky combines meticulous scientific research with Tammet's detailed descriptions of how his mind works to demonstrate the immense potential within us all. It is a unique and brilliantly imaginative portrait of how we think, learn, remember, and create, brimming with personal insights and anecdotes and with explanations of the most up-to-date, mind-bending discoveries from fields ranging from neuroscience to psychology and linguistics. This is a profound and provocative work that will transform our understanding and respect for every kind of mind.

About Daniel Tammet

Daniel Tammet is a writer, linguist, and educator. A 2007 poll of 4,000 Britons named him as one of the world's "100 living geniuses." His last book, the New York Times bestseller Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant, has been translated into 18 languages. He lives in Avignon, France.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Aurélien on April 16, 2020

I had first discovered Daniel Tammet with Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant , his autobiography where he retells his life with Asperger, synaesthesia, and savant syndrome. I had found it so compelling (what a incredible mind!) that I decided to follow up with Em......more

Goodreads review by Nichola on February 17, 2009

Don't look here for a continuation of the author's life journey (he is an autistic savant, and so much more). His first book was a descriptive story of his experiences and development. But in this latest book he seems to have grown beyond self examination to give a fairly comprehensive view of cogni......more

Goodreads review by Susanavallejoch on April 13, 2017

Un libro de divulgación que no profundiza en ningún tema concreto, pero recorre los suficientes como para hacerte comprender algunos mecanismos que explican nuestra forma de pensar y entender el mundo. Es muy entretenido y está plagado de interesantes datos y curiosidades. Muy recomendable para mentes......more

Goodreads review by Nick on January 17, 2016

Though I like a bit of popular science and neurology/psychology, and have read books about Aspergers (and the like) in the past, this was a bit light and told me nothing new. As adequately written as it was, there was little to stand this book above others on the same subject.......more

Goodreads review by Lara on December 27, 2009

Really well written, and pretty fascinating stuff. My grandfather was a neurosurgeon towards the end of the lobotomy days, and so I've always been really interested in how the brain works and why we think and perceive the way we do, and intrigued that we still know relatively little about it all. I......more