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Talk is cheap. Your hands have to be on the steering wheel to learn the feel of slipping tyres. Your feet need to be on the ladder to tell you that you're heading too high. We all use vigilance and courage, constantly problem-solving to survive - and most of the time we don't even notice we're doing it. Welcome to our human AI. Imagine if we could harness this superpower we take for granted, and use our physical intelligence to move and act more efficiently and effectively in the world. As an internationally recognized neuroscientist, Scott Grafton heads up an 'Action Lab' studying goal-directed behaviour; as a practicing doctor, he intimately understands the workings of the human body; and as an avid mountain-climber, he knows that nothing lays bare the most important components of movement and mind than removing the comforts of modern life. Drawing on the latest scientific discoveries, experiences with patients, and his own gripping stories of survival - escaping from bears, scaling impossibly high mountains - Professor Grafton is uniquely positioned to illuminate new methods we can accelerate and amplify our learning through, explain the movement combinations that maximise performance while optimizing efficiency - and pinpoint why it is that we fail when we perform under high stakes, and what we can do about it. Just as Matthew Syed's BOUNCE showed us that what we perceive as talent is the outcome of intensive repetitive training, so Scott Grafton reveals the learning behind our most primal instincts: and how understanding our physical intelligence means we can get smarter and more successful.
