Practical intelligence
Subtitle: the art and science of common sense
By: Karl Albrecht.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2007
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780787995652
Subjects: Common sense; Success; Conduct of life
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A problem and an opportunity; title: Accidental intelligence : the terminal assumption; title: The widening smart gap?; title: The dumbing of America and the culture of amusement; title: Knows and know-nots : the new social divide; title: Who cares? : who needs to care?; title: Multiple intelligences : the possible human; title: IQ doesn't tell the whole story; title: There are at least six kinds of smart; title: Building out : applying theory to everyday life; title: Build-out 1: emotional intelligence; title: Build-out 2: social intelligence; title: The next build-out: practical intelligence; title: What is practical intelligence?; title: Thinking is a bodily function; title: Meet your biocomputer; title: Brain cycles, brainwaves, brain states, and the daily trance; title: Mind-modules : you have many minds?; title: Mind-models : your portable reality; title: Habits that unlock your mental capacity; title: Dimensions of PI : your mega-skills; title: Getting started : upgrading your mental software?; title: Mental software upgrade 1: developing mental flexibility; title: Are you a finished product?; title: Dynamic thinking and archaic thinking; title: You might be a mental redneck; title: The creative paradox; title: The beginner's mind : innocence and humility; title: The plexity scale; title: There is no truth, only your truth, his truth, her truth, their truth; title: How I learned to stop arguing with people; title: A new way to think about opinions; title: Phrases that can keep your mind open; title: Mental software upgrade 2 : adopting affirmative thinking; title: Cleaning out the attic : mental decontamination; title: Sensorship :  choosing what you will allow into your mind; title: Resistance to enculturation, A.K.A. crap detecting?; title: Cleanse your mind with a media fast; title: Re-engineering your attitudes; title: The attitude of gratitude; title: The attitude of abundance; title: Practical altruism; title: Meditation, mindmovies, and affirmations; title: Mental software upgrade 3 : adopting sane language habits; title: Language as mental software : what you say is what you think; title: The cookie cutter effect of language; title: Jumping to confusions : inferential thinking; title: Clean and dirty language : strategies for semantic sanity; title: Expressions you can remove from your vocabulary; title: The self-conversation : cleaning up your internal dialog; title: Snappy comebacks : the language of funny; title: Mental software upgrade 4 : valuing ideas; title: Do you have lots of good ideas? (almost everyone does); title: It slipped my mind ... (almost everything does); title: The greatest thinking tool ever invented; title: Thinking in pictures; title: Are you a yes-person or a no-person?; title: The P.I.N. formula : protecting ideas; title: Using your magical incubator; title: Metaboxical thinking : breaking the boundaries; title: Mega-skill 1: bivergent thinking; title: The divergent-convergent polarity : the DC axis; title: Process consciousness  : managing the pivot point; title: Groupthink : the collusion to fail; title: Brainstorming : more often talked about than done; title: Systematic creativity : the balancing act; title: Mega-skill 2: helicopter thinking; title: The abstract-concrete polarity : the AC axis; title: Visionaries and actionaries : we need both; title: Connecting the dots : you have to see them to connect them; title: Painting the big picture : mindmapping; title: Explaining the big picture : using the language of ideas; title: Mega-skill 3: intulogical thinking; title: The logical-intuitive polarity : the II axis; title: Thinking styles : yours and others; title: Sequential thinking : re-owning your logical abilities; title: Trusting your hunches : re-owning your intuitive abilities; title: The zen mind : flow and mindfulness; title: Mega-skill 4: viscerational thinking; title: The rational-emotive polarity : the RE axis; title: First we decide, then we justify : irrational thinking explained; title: We're all neurotic and that's ok; title: The five primal fears we live by : the psychology of risk; title: Signal reactions : disconnecting your hot buttons; title: Emotions and health : if it's on your mind, it's on your body; title: Can you motivate yourself? : the Popeye point; title: How to become an expert problem solver; title: Forget those five steps they taught you; title: Using heuristic (A.K.A. natural) problem solving; title: Your five key mindzones; title: The high-speed problem-solving process; title: Success programming : causing the outcomes you want; title: Using what we've learned; title: Mindmovies : who's producing your life's story?; title: Alpha programming : making the movies you want; title: Your life wheel : taking stock, setting priorities, and making changes.