Ways of Knowing: Praxis Volume 4

Ways of Knowing is the story of Tiago Forte's obsession with the nature of knowledge – what it is, where it comes from, how it’s created, and how to help people use it more effectively.

It includes 14 essays tracing his journey to understand the interplay between "logical" ways of knowing centered in the brain, and "intuitive" ways of knowing through the body and heart. And not only to understand them, but to experience them first hand.

After years of searching and experimenting, he came to realize that there is a different way of knowing besides the intellect: as embodied instead of dissociated, as intuitive instead of analytical, as somatic instead of cerebral. So much of our most valuable knowledge isn’t stored in the form of facts and figures. It is stored inside the body and the heart as memories, instincts, traumas, and dreams.

Tiago's writing explores how memories and emotions are expressed in the human brain and body, connecting that to lessons from other cultures and throughout history, with his own journey as the backdrop tying them together.

His goal is to better understand the nature of knowledge by reuniting the mind and body that modern society so often treats as completely separate. To recruit every form of intelligence at our disposal to help us live better, happier, more fulfilling lives.