{"product_id":"the-end-of-knowing-joe-robert-thornton-9798234205148","title":"The End of Knowing: The Journey to Unlearning","description":"The End of Knowing: The Journey to Unlearning arrives at a critical moment in a culture shaped by misinformation, political polarization, algorithmic echo chambers, workplace disruption, and accelerating technological change. Its central premise is both timely and provocative: meaningful growth may require not the accumulation of more knowledge, but the deliberate release of inherited assumptions. In The End of Knowing, Joe Robert Thornton examines the nature of knowledge itself, along with the philosophical, emotional, and cultural barriers that prevent people from determining whether what they believe is factual, useful, or worthy of continued trust. This is not an argument against knowledge. It is a reckoning with the certainty we attach to what we think we know. Throughout life, the question is often not whether we have learned enough, but whether we have unlearned enough. The task is not to discard facts; it is to reconsider the conviction with which we once held certain beliefs. Unlearning is an intentional process of releasing a false or limiting narrative when new experiences, evidence, knowledge, or observation reveal a more complete truth. At its deepest level, unlearning is about rediscovering who we may have been before the world told us who we were supposed to become. Thornton presents unlearning as a philosophical expedition-an invitation to dig beneath the foundations of certainty and examine the assumptions that shape our identities, relationships, institutions, and worldview. The book also introduces a four-stage model of unlearning: Denial, Doubt, Discomfort, and Development. The End of Knowing confronts essential questions: - Why do you believe what you believe? - What if some of what you were taught was false or designed to serve others' interests? - What if the framework that once made you capable now prevents you from seeing clearly? - What happens when familiar habits of thought-what we call \"knowledge\"-bec\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joe Robert Thornton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798234205148\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vizzionnary Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d","brand":"Joe Robert Thornton","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":50780320465151,"sku":"9798234205148","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-end-of-knowing-joe-robert-thornton-9798234205148","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}