The Lost Art Of Thinking

Author : Neil Nedley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780966197921
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Art of Thinking written by Neil Nedley and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lost Art of Thinking is a unique tool that you can use to improve mental performance, emotional intelligence, and life satisfaction in a practical and all inclusive way. - Experience emotional calm and stability under tremendous stress.- Make lasting positive changes in your mental ability and mood. - Find high levels of motivation, with more energy and better productivity. - Develop a high ability to think through complex situations, analyze information accurately, and make correct decisions habitually. - Improve your relationships and enjoy a healthy zest for life.

Author : Neil Allen Nedley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Art of Thinking written by Neil Allen Nedley and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a tool to help improve mental performance, emotional intelligence and life satisfaction. It provides a scientific and Christian look at enhancing your life.

Author : L.S. Dugdale
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062932659
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Art of Dying written by L.S. Dugdale and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Columbia University physician comes across a popular medieval text on dying well written after the horror of the Black Plague and discovers ancient wisdom for rethinking death and gaining insight today on how we can learn the lost art of dying well in this wise, clear-eyed book that is as compelling and soulful as Being Mortal, When Breath Becomes Air, and Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. As a specialist in both medical ethics and the treatment of older patients, Dr. L. S. Dugdale knows a great deal about the end of life. Far too many of us die poorly, she argues. Our culture has overly medicalized death: dying is often institutional and sterile, prolonged by unnecessary resuscitations and other intrusive interventions. We are not going gently into that good night—our reliance on modern medicine can actually prolong suffering and strip us of our dignity. Yet our lives do not have to end this way. Centuries ago, in the wake of the Black Plague, a text was published offering advice to help the living prepare for a good death. Written during the late Middle Ages, ars moriendi—The Art of Dying—made clear that to die well, one first had to live well and described what practices best help us prepare. When Dugdale discovered this Medieval book, it was a revelation. Inspired by its holistic approach to the final stage we must all one day face, she draws from this forgotten work, combining its wisdom with the knowledge she has gleaned from her long medical career. The Lost Art of Dying is a twenty-first century ars moriendi, filled with much-needed insight and thoughtful guidance that will change our perceptions. By recovering our sense of finitude, confronting our fears, accepting how our bodies age, developing meaningful rituals, and involving our communities in end-of-life care, we can discover what it means to both live and die well. And like the original ars moriendi, The Lost Art of Dying includes nine black-and-white drawings from artist Michael W. Dugger. Dr. Dugdale offers a hopeful perspective on death and dying as she shows us how to adapt the wisdom from the past to our lives today. The Lost Art of Dying is a vital, affecting book that reconsiders death, death culture, and how we can transform how we live each day, including our last.

Author : Rolf Dobelli
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062359800
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Thinking Clearly written by Rolf Dobelli and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world-class thinker counts the 100 ways in which humans behave irrationally, showing us what we can do to recognize and minimize these “thinking errors” to make better decisions and have a better life Despite the best of intentions, humans are notoriously bad—that is, irrational—when it comes to making decisions and assessing risks and tradeoffs. Psychologists and neuroscientists refer to these distinctly human foibles, biases, and thinking traps as “cognitive errors.” Cognitive errors are systematic deviances from rationality, from optimized, logical, rational thinking and behavior. We make these errors all the time, in all sorts of situations, for problems big and small: whether to choose the apple or the cupcake; whether to keep retirement funds in the stock market when the Dow tanks, or whether to take the advice of a friend over a stranger. The “behavioral turn” in neuroscience and economics in the past twenty years has increased our understanding of how we think and how we make decisions. It shows how systematic errors mar our thinking and under which conditions our thought processes work best and worst. Evolutionary psychology delivers convincing theories about why our thinking is, in fact, marred. The neurosciences can pinpoint with increasing precision what exactly happens when we think clearly and when we don’t. Drawing on this wide body of research, The Art of Thinking Clearly is an entertaining presentation of these known systematic thinking errors--offering guidance and insight into everything why you shouldn’t accept a free drink to why you SHOULD walk out of a movie you don’t like it to why it’s so hard to predict the future to why shouldn’t watch the news. The book is organized into 100 short chapters, each covering a single cognitive error, bias, or heuristic. Examples of these concepts include: Reciprocity, Confirmation Bias, The It-Gets-Better-Before-It-Gets-Worse Trap, and the Man-With-A-Hammer Tendency. In engaging prose and with real-world examples and anecdotes, The Art of Thinking Clearly helps solve the puzzle of human reasoning.

Author : Ernest Dimnet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7U/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Thinking written by Ernest Dimnet and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Isaacs
Publisher : Currency
ISBN 13 : 0385479999
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dialogue written by William Isaacs and published by Currency. This book was released on 1999-09-14 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dialogue provides practical guidelines for one of the essential elements of true partnership--learning how to talk together in honest and effective ways. Reveals how problems between managers and employees, and between companies or divisions within a larger corporation, stem from an inability to conduct a successful dialogue.

Author : Thomas H. Davenport
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
ISBN 13 : 1422166465
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thinking for a Living written by Thomas H. Davenport and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2005-09-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge workers create the innovations and strategies that keep their firms competitive and the economy healthy. Yet, companies continue to manage this new breed of employee with techniques designed for the Industrial Age. As this critical sector of the workforce continues to increase in size and importance, that's a mistake that could cost companies their future. Thomas Davenport argues that knowledge workers are vastly different from other types of workers in their motivations, attitudes, and need for autonomy--and, so, they require different management techniques to improve their performance and productivity. Based on extensive research involving over 100 companies and more than 600 knowledge workers, Thinking for a Living provides rich insights into how knowledge workers think, how they accomplish tasks, and what motivates them to excel. Davenport identifies four major categories of knowledge workers and presents a unique framework for matching specific types of workers with the management strategies that yield the greatest performance. Written by the field's premier thought leader, Thinking for a Living reveals how to maximize the brain power that fuels organizational success. Thomas Davenport holds the President's Chair in Information Technology and Management at Babson College. He is director of research for Babson Executive Education; an Accenture Fellow; and author, co-author, or editor of nine books, including Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know (HBS Press, 1997).

Author : Andrew S. Curran
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1590516702
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely written by Andrew S. Curran and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best Book of the Year – Kirkus Reviews A spirited biography of the prophetic and sympathetic philosopher who helped build the foundations of the modern world. Denis Diderot is often associated with the decades-long battle to bring the world’s first comprehensive Encyclopédie into existence. But his most daring writing took place in the shadows. Thrown into prison for his atheism in 1749, Diderot decided to reserve his best books for posterity–for us, in fact. In the astonishing cache of unpublished writings left behind after his death, Diderot challenged virtually all of his century's accepted truths, from the sanctity of monarchy, to the racial justification of the slave trade, to the norms of human sexuality. One of Diderot’s most attentive readers during his lifetime was Catherine the Great, who not only supported him financially, but invited him to St. Petersburg to talk about the possibility of democratizing the Russian empire. In this thematically organized biography, Andrew S. Curran vividly describes Diderot’s tormented relationship with Rousseau, his curious correspondence with Voltaire, his passionate affairs, and his often iconoclastic stands on art, theater, morality, politics, and religion. But what this book brings out most brilliantly is how the writer's personal turmoil was an essential part of his genius and his ability to flout taboos, dogma, and convention.

Author : Vincent Ryan Ruggiero
Publisher : Pearson Education
ISBN 13 : 9780205119387
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Thinking written by Vincent Ryan Ruggiero and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Thinking introduces students to the principles and techniques of critical thinking, taking them step-by-step through the problem-solving process. Emphasizing creative and active thought processes, the author asserts that good thinking and problem-solving is based on learnable strategies. The book's four parts, "Be Aware," "Be Creative," "Be Critical," and "Communicate Your Ideas," present students with a process for solving problems and resolving controversial issues. Discussions of how to evaluate ideas and how to question long-held assumptions or biases help students look at concepts critically. This text can be used in freshman experience courses, freshman composition courses, and a wide array of other courses where instructors want to enhance students' critical thinking skills.

Author : Marvin McGee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781657892859
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Thinking Big written by Marvin McGee and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The secret of confidence and positivity you've never been told... Until now You enter a coffee shop on your way to yet another busy, soul-crushing day in the office. Suddenly, everybody stops what they're doing, they turn and stare at you. What's even worse - that stare is disapproving and critical. How often have you felt negative energy coming from others? How often have you lost your mojo when approaching a stranger, fearing a negative reaction? How often have you felt completely defeated, worthless, under-appreciated? Do you have those loud negative voices in your head, telling you that you're just not good enough? Here's a little secret you need to learn today: Most people are neutral towards you. It's your own self-perception that paints the negative picture. As an individual, you are the one responsible for building yourself up. Obviously, that's easier said than done. And you're not alone in this massive endeavor. Did you know that: Up to 85% of the world's population is affected by low self-esteem Literally all people battling some kind of addiction have low self-esteem Only 2% of women think they're beautiful The lower your self-esteem, the lower your ability to silence the voices in your head shouting about your inability to do something People lacking confidence don't have a deep sense of their authentic self And these are just a few detrimental facts linked to a negative mindset. If only you could learn to be positive and to believe in yourself! The good news is that you can. And you can get results in as little as 30 days (the amount of time it takes to form a new habit). So buckle up and get ready for the coming 30 days with The Art of Thinking Big. In The Art of Thinking Big, you will discover: The number one way to turn negative thoughts into positive ones Why self-confidence is much more important in your life than you probably believe The main difference between an achievable goal and a fantasy Writing it down can make it happen - the power of organizing your ideas 5 powerful self-love habits A reliable strategy to chase negative thoughts away How to finally stop caring about other people's opinions Why you were born RICH and you can continue being rich throughout your life Excuses - the number one killer of motivation and accomplishment (and how to banish them forever) To top it all off, you will be provided with powerful guidance on changing the habits that are holding you back. How much longer will you sit on the sofa, drenched in self-pity and no desire to accept responsibility for your own choices? Change is a ton easier than you believe it to be. And don't forget that every lengthy journey starts with a single, often hesitant step. With the right guidance, support network and motivation, you can overcome the hindrances that are keeping you from living your life to the fullest. So, what are you waiting for? To provoke positive change in your everyday existence, start living to the fullest and see your dreams materialize themselves, scroll up and click the "Add to Cart" button now!