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"In Flip Thinking, Berthold Gunster, the founder of the Dutch omdenken--or flip thinking--philosophy, presents fifteen strategies to transform your thinking away from limitations and negativities and towards possibilities and opportunities. From disrupting (turn all the rules upside down) to flaunting (play up what you want to hide) and from importing (get the enemy on board) to amplifying (do more of what works), Gunster's strategies and stories...
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"The difficulty of rethinking our assumptions is surprisingly common--maybe even fundamentally human. Our ways of thinking become habits that we don't bother to question, and mental laziness leads us to prefer the ease of old routines to the difficulty of new ones. We fail to update the beliefs we formed in the past for the challenges we face in the present. But in a rapidly changing world, we need to spend as much time rethinking as we do thinking....
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"Be productive without sacrificing peace of mind with the Lazy Genius strategy of focusing on what really matters and ignoring what doesn't. If you need a comprehensive self-help strategy but are tired of reading stacks of self-help books, here is an easy way that actually works. No more cobbling together life hacks and productivity strategies from dozens of authors and still feeling tired. The struggle is real, but it doesn't have to be in charge"--
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"In Chatter, acclaimed psychologist Ethan Kross explores the silent conversations we have with ourselves. Interweaving groundbreaking behavioral and brain research from his own lab with real-world case studies--from a pitcher who forgets how to pitch to a Harvard undergrad negotiating her double life as a spy--Kross explains how these conversations shape our lives, work, and relationships. He warns that giving in to negative and disorienting self-talk--what...
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2021.
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English
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Unearthing the untold history of how artists, scientists and authors have used mental extensions to solve, discover and create, an acclaimed science journalist presents a dramatic new view of how our minds work, offering practical advice on how we can all think better. --
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2010.
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English
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Reading this book will make you less sure of yourself—and that’s a good thing. In The Invisible Gorilla, Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons, creators of one of psychology’s most famous experiments, use remarkable stories and counterintuitive scientific findings to demonstrate an important truth: Our minds don’t work the way we think they do. We think we see ourselves and the world as they really are,...
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McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
[2008]
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1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
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English
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Providing numerous examples and illustrations; this straightforward guide introduces Productive Thinking; a practical; easy-to-learn; repeatable process that helps people understand more clearly; think more creatively; and plan more effectively. --
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Religious perspectives volume 21
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Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1968]
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[first edition].
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xxvii, 244 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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English
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"From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes--this is award winning writer Simon Winchester's brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology continues to change our lives and our minds"--Dust jacket flap
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
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First edition.
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viii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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A psychology expert offers a tool kit for thinking more clearly and making better decisions, explaining how to reframe problems using simplified concepts from science and statistics, including the law of large numbers, statistical regression, cost-benefit analysis, and causation and correlation.
14) I am right, you are wrong: from this to the new renaissance : from rock logic to the water logic
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Viking
Pub. Date
1991.
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xx, 293 pages ; 24 cm
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English
16) Never be closing: how to sell better without screwing your clients, your colleagues, or yourself
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Penguin/Portfolio
Pub. Date
2014.
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ix, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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A new way of thinking about selling that benefits both the seller and the client, Never Be Closing expands on the principles of Tim Hurson's first book, Think Better, to teach salespeople how to improve their results using a simple, repeatable framework.
20) Thinking
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Her The life of the mind volume 1
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1978]
Edition
First edition.
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xii, 258 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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