Practical intelligence the art and science of common sense /
Throughout Practical Intelligence, Albrecht explains that people with practical intelligence can employ language skills, make better decisions, think in terms of options and possibilities, embrace ambiguity and complexity, articulate problems clearly and work through to solutions, have original idea...
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New York, NY :
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2018.
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Table of Contents:
- A problem and an opportunity
- Accidental intelligence : the terminal assumption
- The widening smart gap?
- The dumbing of America and the culture of amusement
- Knows and know-nots : the new social divide
- Who cares? : who needs to care?
- Multiple intelligences : the possible human
- IQ doesn't tell the whole story
- There are at least six kinds of smart
- Building out : applying theory to everyday life
- Build-out 1: emotional intelligence
- Build-out 2: social intelligence
- The next build-out: practical intelligence
- What is practical intelligence?
- Thinking is a bodily function
- Meet your biocomputer
- Brain cycles, brainwaves, brain states, and the daily trance
- Mind-modules : you have many minds?
- Mind-models : your portable reality
- Habits that unlock your mental capacity
- Dimensions of PI : your mega-skills
- Getting started : upgrading your mental software?
- Mental software upgrade 1: developing mental flexibility
- Are you a finished product?
- Dynamic thinking and archaic thinking
- You might be a mental redneck
- The creative paradox
- The beginner's mind : innocence and humility
- The plexity scale
- There is no truth, only your truth, his truth, her truth, their truth
- How I learned to stop arguing with people
- A new way to think about opinions
- Phrases that can keep your mind open
- Mental software upgrade 2 : adopting affirmative thinking
- Cleaning out the attic : mental decontamination
- Sensorship : choosing what you will allow into your mind
- Resistance to enculturation, A.K.A. crap detecting?
- Cleanse your mind with a media fast
- Re-engineering your attitudes
- The attitude of gratitude
- The attitude of abundance
- Practical altruism
- Meditation, mindmovies, and affirmations
- Mental software upgrade 3 : adopting sane language habits
- Language as mental software : what you say is what you think
- The cookie cutter effect of language
- Jumping to confusions : inferential.
- thinking
- Clean and dirty language : strategies for semantic sanity
- Expressions you can remove from your vocabulary
- The self-conversation : cleaning up your internal dialog
- Snappy comebacks : the language of funny
- Mental software upgrade 4 : valuing ideas
- Do you have lots of good ideas? (almost everyone does)
- It slipped my mind ... (almost everything does)
- The greatest thinking tool ever invented
- Thinking in pictures
- Are you a yes-person or a no-person?
- The P.I.N. formula : protecting ideas
- Using your magical incubator
- Metaboxical thinking : breaking the boundaries
- Mega-skill 1: bivergent thinking
- The divergent-convergent polarity : the DC axis
- Process consciousness : managing the pivot point
- Groupthink : the collusion to fail
- Brainstorming : more often talked about than done
- Systematic creativity : the balancing act
- Mega-skill 2: helicopter thinking
- The abstract-concrete polarity : the AC axis
- Visionaries and actionaries : we need both
- Connecting the dots : you have to see them to connect them
- Painting the big picture : mindmapping
- Explaining the big picture : using the language of ideas
- Mega-skill 3: intulogical thinking
- The logical-intuitive polarity : the II axis
- Thinking styles : yours and others
- Sequential thinking : re-owning your logical abilities
- Trusting your hunches : re-owning your intuitive abilities
- The zen mind : flow and mindfulness
- Mega-skill 4: viscerational thinking
- The rational-emotive polarity : the RE axis
- First we decide, then we justify : irrational thinking explained
- We're all neurotic and that's ok
- The five primal fears we live by : the psychology of risk
- Signal reactions : disconnecting your hot buttons
- Emotions and health : if it's on your mind, it's on your body
- Can you motivate yourself? : the Popeye point
- How to become an expert problem solver
- Forget those five steps they taught you
- Using heuristic (A.K.A. natural) problem solving
- Your five key mindzones
- The high-speed problem-solving process
- Success programming : causing the outcomes you want
- Using what we've learned
- Mindmovies : who's producing your life's story?
- Alpha programming : making the movies you want
- Your life wheel : taking stock, setting priorities, and making changes.