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These are two books about thinking, brain activities and how people learn, perceive and make actions. The latter book, Thinking Fast and Slow, is a bit academic, but does talk a lot about two thinking systems, System 1 and System 2 (sorry, the field's names for them, not mine). System 1 is your intuitive primal-ish thinking method and System 2 is your analytic "multiply 341 by 14" thinking method.
A lot of what is discussed ties into a lot of Anders Ericssons' work on expert learning (the 10,000 hours rule of thumb). Essentially, a lot of academic style learning is System 2 based. To become fluent in what one learns, it has to move to System 1 thinking. For example, when you see "HELLO" you can't but recognize its meaning (unless you're reading this the first time and you're chinese). But when you see "GUTABAK" you would have to search through your mind to derive meaning from it. (Don't bother, I just made up that string of letters.)
Now You See It also talks about thinking although on a more practical level, but about learning in general. Here, the book talks about how the actual neurons in one's brain die out as one ages from infant to adult. That dying out is actually good for us. If all those neurons and synapses are present and wired through adulthood, we would be experiencing all sorts of eternal stimuli that it would be impossible to deal with it. It would mean there's no "noise". Everything is "signal" and it would be impossible for one to practically function under that scenario.
I'm talking about it here because it affects how one were to learn fencing, teach fencing and how motor skills are burned into the body (the "muscle memory" concept is not just a catchy phrase: the neurons and nerve fibers are actually being created/destroyed to be optimized for whatever one is training for). Again, this shows the physiological support for the 10,000 hours hypothesis of Ericsson.
I would suggest people at least read up on the descriptions of the books if not the books themselves and feel free to discuss.
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