This week we talk to Edward Slingerland about trying not to try
Edward Slingerland is a Professor of Asian Studies and Canada Research Chair in Chinese Thought and Embodied Cognition at the University of British Columbia, and was educated at Princeton, Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley. His areas of specialty include Chinese thought, comparative religion, cognitive science, and the relationship between the sciences and the humanities. In addition to over twenty academic journal articles in a range of fields, he has written several scholarly books, including What Science Offers the Humanities and a translation of the Analects of Confucius. His first book for a popular audience is called Trying Not to Try: Ancient China, Modern Science, and the Power of Spontaneity
 
In This Interview Ted and I Discuss...

The One You Feed parable.
Trying not to try.
The tension of trying to relax.
The conscious mind vs the unconscious mind.
The ancient secrets of Wu Wei.

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