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Jonathan Rowson

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in Aberdeen, The United Kingdom

April 18, 1977

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https://www.systems-souls-society.com/

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Jonathan Rowson is co-founder and Director of Perspectiva, "a research platform that seeks to build the intellectual foundations for a more conscious society – a diverse and plural society awake to itself, united by an awareness of ecological constraints, systemic influences and the development of human empathy and consciousness throughout the lifespan."

He is an applied philosopher with degrees spanning a range of humanities and social sciences from Oxford, Harvard and Bristol Universities.

He is also a former Scottish chess grandmaster, a three-time Scottish Chess Champion and the No. 1 ranked Scottish player as of October 2017.

As Director of the Social Brain Centre at the United Kingdom's Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Man ...more

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Average rating: 4.26 · 316 ratings · 34 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Seven Deadly Chess Sins 4.37 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 2000 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chess for Zebras 4.37 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Moves That Matter: A Chess Grandmaster on the Game of Life 4.06 avg rating — 112 ratings — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Understanding the Grunfeld 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1998	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	THE POWER OF CURIOSITY. HOW LINKING INQUISITIVENESS TO INNOVATION COULD HELP TO ADDRESS OUR ENERGY CHALLENGES 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New In Chess Book of Chess Improvement by Alexander Morozevich, Mikhail Tal, Boris Gelfand 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Secrets of Opening Surprises 2 by Jeroen Bosch (Editor), Alexander Beliavsky, Jonathan Rowson liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2004	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I was beginning to understand that the best kinds of freedom involved choosing your constraints wisely, and claiming them as your own.”
― Jonathan Rowson, The Moves That Matter: A Chess Grandmaster on the Game of Life

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“Maturing into a viable adulthood is partly about discipline, but it is also about luck. Aldous Huxley famously wrote that experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you. That is profoundly correct. Our life experience is not one event after the other but a series of opportunities to grow by making sense of what is meaningful and what isn't. Some do that better than others.”
― Jonathan Rowson, The Moves That Matter: A Chess Grandmaster on the Game of Life

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“Metaphors matter because they give conceptual shape to life, and we live within the dimensions of those shapes as if they were real. The cognitive scientists George Lakoff and Mark Johnson suggest: ‘Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.’ Life really is ‘a journey’, ‘big’ things really are significant, sophisticated ideas really are ‘deep’. Such conceptual shapes are real because we make them so. It helps to wake up to the fact that we are to some extent free to create new conceptual shapes, indeed that this may offer our only hope for a genuinely new world.”
― Jonathan Rowson, The Moves That Matter: A Chess Grandmaster on the Game of Life

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