Rapt

Author : Winifred Gallagher
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781594202100
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rapt written by Winifred Gallagher and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The behavioral scientist author of Just the Way You Are presents a provocative argument that the quality of one's life is directly related to the focus of one's attention, drawing on the latest findings in neuroscience and psychology to cover such topics as the human capacity for training concentration, the ways in which the creative mind thinks, and why people deliberate on the wrong factors when making big decisions.

Author : Winifred Gallagher
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101032596
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rapt written by Winifred Gallagher and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-04-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revolutionary look at how what we pay attention to determines how we experience life Acclaimed behavioral science writer Winifred Gallagher's Rapt makes the radical argument that much of the quality of your life depends not on fame or fortune, beauty or brains, fate or coincidence, but on what you choose to pay attention to. Rapt introduces a diverse cast of characters, from researchers to artists to ranchers, to illustrate the art of living the interested life. As their stories show, by focusing on the most positive and productive elements of any situation, you can shape your inner experience and expand your world. By learning to focus, you can improve your concentration, broaden your inner horizons, and most important, feel what it means to be fully alive.

Author : Winifred Gallagher
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0143116908
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rapt written by Winifred Gallagher and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revolutionary look at how what we pay attention to determines how we experience life Acclaimed behavioral science writer Winifred Gallagher's Rapt makes the radical argument that much of the quality of your life depends not on fame or fortune, beauty or brains, fate or coincidence, but on what you choose to pay attention to. Rapt introduces a diverse cast of characters, from researchers to artists to ranchers, to illustrate the art of living the interested life. As their stories show, by focusing on the most positive and productive elements of any situation, you can shape your inner experience and expand your world. By learning to focus, you can improve your concentration, broaden your inner horizons, and most important, feel what it means to be fully alive.

Author : Elizabeth Waterston
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802086853
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rapt in Plaid written by Elizabeth Waterston and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2003-12-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrate a long-lasting connection between Scottish and Canadian literary traditions and illuminates the way Scottish ideas and values still wield surprising power in Canadian politics, education, theology, economics and social mores.

Author : Ramdas Lamb
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 079148856X
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rapt in the Name written by Ramdas Lamb and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the Ram bhakti tradition and a fascinating account of its practice among a group of Central Indian Untouchables.

Author : Laurie Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144382352X
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "Rapt in Secret Studies" written by Laurie Johnson and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-12 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Rapt in Secret Studies”: Emerging Shakespeares is a collection of new essays in Shakespeare Studies from a generation of scholars presently emerging out of Australia and New Zealand. These 18 essays respond in a myriad of ways to the challenge of Prospero’s phrase from The Tempest, in which he tells his daughter Miranda that in his life before the island he had been “rapt in secret studies”-to an early modern audience, these words were likely to mean much more than a predilection for the black arts, as modern audiences tend to hear in them. Each of the key words used by Prospero evoked a range of meanings in early modern times, to which the emerging scholars represented in this collection responded by imagining new pathways in Shakespeare Studies, a field of study that has in recent times risked being marginalised even within the traditional liberal arts. The “secret studies” of which Prospero speaks are, in fact, more liberal than dark, and so the response by new scholars to a challenge issued by one of Shakespeare’s characters more than four centuries ago has a renewed sense of relevance in the academy today. The essays are divided into three sections, each of which is oriented toward meanings that are specifically associated with one of the key terms in Prospero’s phrase. The “rapt” section has essays concerned with excess in its various forms-jealousy, obsession, sex, violence, and even death-as well as with travel and its impact on ways of knowing about the world. In the “secret” section, the nature of things about which the early modern could scarcely speak are taken into consideration, with essays on prevailing early modern myths, infidelities, stillborn children, contagion, and the instruments of secrecy such as gossip and spies. Finally, in the “study” section, essays cover issues related both to early modern textual practice-the use of historical source materials in Shakespeare’s writing, questions of multiple authorship, and the issue of early modern style and kinds of drama-and to more modern scholarly practice, such as the role of Shakespeare in the New Bibliography and the New Historicism.

Author : Ian Robertson Duncan
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0615193706
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ballad Rapt written by Ian Robertson Duncan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Winged Way presents Ian Robertson Duncan's first book of poems. In these ballads, incantations, sonnets and haiku, Duncan explores a metaphysics of body and world in a form called the wordsong.

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summary of Winifred Gallagher's Rapt written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-05-09T22:59:00Z with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Focusing attention is a skill that can be learned and improved upon. It is the key to designing your daily experience, because it allows you to decide what to focus on and what to suppress. #2 Your attention is constantly being focused on different targets, and you must choose what to attend to in constructing your daily experience. Near Central Park’s Strawberry Fields, some bird lovers have scattered lots of seed in a clearing, creating an avian mosh pit that’s a natural laboratory for experimenting with biased competition. #3 When you first enter the feeding area, your attention is stimulus-driven, and you glance randomly at the busy tableau. When you decide to focus on a particular target, such as a little woodpecker called the yellow-bellied sapsucker, your attention is active and goal-oriented. #4 Your attentional system, like the magician, focuses you on some things at the expense of others. As you continue your stroll, you realize that although you vividly recall that top-hatted trickster, with the exception of a woman in a bright violet jacket who stood right beside him, you only fuzzily recall the rest of the scene.

Author : Thomas Dekker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dekker his Dreame. In which, beeing rapt with a poeticall enthusiasme, the great volumes of Heauen and Hell to him were opened, in which he read many wonderfull things. With a woodcut written by Thomas Dekker and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Dekker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decker's Dream, in Which, Being Rapt with a Poetical Enthusiasm, the Great Volumes of Heaven and Hell Were Opened to Him, in which He Read Many Wonderful Things. Reprinted from the Rare Edition of 1620 written by Thomas Dekker and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: