From start to finish nonsense the power of not knowing is a highly readable engrossing book that explains how important it is to be able to deal with ambiguity and not to be always seeking closure author jamie holmes points out early in the book that successfully dealing with ambiguity and uncertainty does not require a high iq but requires that one learns to master the emotional challenge of figuring out what to do when one has no idea what to do he states that he hopes to . But as nonsense reveals our need for closure has its own dangers it makes us stick to our first answer which is not always the best and it makes us search for meaning in the wrong places when we latch onto fast and easy truths we lose a vital opportunity to learn something new solve a hard problem or see the world from another perspective in other words confusion that uncomfortable . Jamie holmes nonsense the power of not knowing disappointed me given the other reviews i had seen and the general buzz that this book has seemed to generate first of all holmes does not provide his own account of how to deal with ambiguity rather the book is a collection of stories ranging from the motogp to the fashion industry to the yom kippur war in which different individuals face ambiguity and respond to it in either stereotypical bad or good ways holmes does well in making . Nonsense the power of not knowing holmes jamie isbn 9780385348393 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon