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| Author | : Lucille Deslandes Kluka |
| Publisher | : Xulon Press |
| Total Pages | : 110 |
| Release | : 2007-09 |
| Genre | : Bible |
| ISBN | : 1602669287 |
I was born and raised in a typical small New England mill town called Baltic, Connecticut at the end of the Depression years. In 1972 at the age of 35 years, I desired a warmer climate. With just my personal belongings packed into my trusty steed, a 1970 Ford Galaxie 500, I left Connecticut and traveled 3,600 miles to sunny Southern California. In Long Beach, I did find the climate I was searching for. So with my experience and my California nurse's license, I was hired at the Long Beach Community Hospital, Intensive Coronary Care Unit, working there for seven years. While working full time, I attended Long Beach City College graduating in 1977. I moved to Vancouver, Washington in 1979 to present date to retirement, but not tired. To me retirement means, I can do anything I darn well please! This book is about my eye opener to life. It is a journey that took me from Severe Clinical Depression into intense journaling, which gave to me so much insight and awareness of the presence of God. As a result of my journaling, I applied it to many issues in medicine, politics, spiritual and controversial situations. I was pleased to see almost all my many articles published in the local news media. My collection in this book includes; the beginning with the 23rd Psalm, the reader's views published, and volunteerism with reporting and publishing about the agencies and organization. I included a few of the controversial incidences that I researched to debate and make my comments about. God did promise that He came to give us life and that we may have it more abundantly.
| Author | : David N Perkins |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Games & Activities |
| ISBN | : 9780393322552 |
Breakthrough thinking comes as a sudden, seemingly unaccountable moment of inspiration: From Archimedes' discovery in the bathtub of the principle of water displacement to Einstein's Theory of Relativity, from Brunelleschi's development of perspective drawing to the Impressionist revolution, from the taming of fire to the creation of the laser, it has shaped and advanced civilization.
| Author | : Katherine Ramsland |
| Publisher | : Prometheus Books |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 2012-02-21 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1616144653 |
Sudden flashes of inspiration have triggered many discoveries and inventions throughout history. Are such aha! moments merely random, or is there a way to train the brain to harness these seemingly unpredictable creative insights? This fascinating overview of the latest neuroscience findings on spontaneous thought processes, or "snaps," describes how everyone—not just geniuses—can learn to improve the likelihood of their own "eureka" moments by adopting certain rewarding attitudes and habits. As the author explains, snaps are much more than new ideas. Snaps are insights plus momentum—they instantly compel or snap us toward action. They often occur after ordinary problem solving hits an impasse. We may feel stuck, but while we’re in a quandary, the brain is rebooting. Then, when we least expect it, the solution pops into our heads. She describes the results of numerous scientific experiments studying this phenomenon. She also recounts intriguing stories of people in diverse disciplines who have had a snap experience. Both the research and the stories illustrate that it’s possible to enhance our facility for snap moments by training ourselves to scan, sift, and solve. In the emerging economy, businesses and individuals need new strategies, and it’s clear that just thinking harder no longer works. People who can snap are often a step ahead: they have a vigilance advantage from exercising brain cells that build mental agility. While snapping is rewarding, fun, and good for improving our mental skills, it’s also much more: people who snap life-changing ideas that affect many others will redirect our future. Written in an accessible, jargon-free narrative that weaves together the latest research with illuminating stories of innovative people, this book teaches us how to cultivate our own inner epiphanies to gain an edge in our imaginations, our careers, our goals—indeed, in every aspect of our lives.
| Author | : William Braxton Irvine |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 377 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0199338876 |
Great ideas often develop gradually after studying a problem at length--but not always. Sometimes, an insight hits like a bolt from the blue. For Archimedes, clarity struck while he was taking a bath. For Gustav Mahler, it came as the blades of his oars touched the water. And for Albert Einstein, it emerged while he was talking to a friend. Why do these moments of insight strike so suddenly? Why do they so often come to us when we are focused on something completely unrelated? And when great ideas "come to" us, where do they come from? In Aha!: The Moments of Insight that Shape Our World, philosopher William B. Irvine, author of A Guide to the Good Life and On Desire, explores these epiphanies, from the minor insights that strike us all daily, to the major realizations that alter the course of history. Focusing on aha moments as they take place in five different domains--religion, morality, science, math, and art--Irvine provides case studies that shed light on the different ways epiphanies happen in the different domains, and on their differing social impact. Along the way, he describes some of the great aha moments in history, from ancient times to the present day. We like to think that our greatest thoughts are the product of our conscious mind. Irvine demonstrates, though, that it is our unconscious mind that is the source of our most significant insights, and that the role the conscious mind plays in eliciting these insights is to try, unsuccessfully, to solve certain problems. Only if the conscious mind is willing to do this--and thereby experience considerable frustration--is the unconscious mind likely to reward it with a breakthrough insight-that the conscious mind will then take credit for. Irvine explores not only the neuroscience of aha moments but also their personal and social ramifications. How does a person respond to having a breakthrough insight that goes against a dominant paradigm? And how does the world respond when she shares that insight? Irvine shows that in many cases, what is most remarkable about those who have had the great insights of human history is not their but their courage and perseverance in fighting for the world to accept those insights. Aha! is a must-read for cognitive scientists, intellectual historians, philosophers, and anyone who has ever been blown away by the ideas that enlighten us when we least expect it.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 491 |
| Release | : 2021-05-25 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 9004446435 |
Creativity of an Aha!Moment and Mathematics Education introduces bisociation, the theory of Aha! moment creativity into Mathematics Education. It establishes relationships between bisociation and constructivist theories of learning laying down the basis for the new theory integrating creativity with learning.
| Author | : Diana Dias |
| Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
| Total Pages | : 218 |
| Release | : 2023-10-11 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1837688672 |
Today more than ever, our world needs creativity and innovation as key pillars to drive growth, face challenges, and stand out in a competitive and demanding world. It has become pressing to reflect on how creativity and innovation can be fostered in society, especially among the younger generation who will be the protagonists of inevitable changes in the future. This book focuses on the intrinsic and fruitful link between creativity and innovation. It encompasses a set of reflections, experiences, and insights on how these two concepts become effective levers of each other. It also focuses on how to foster creativity and innovation in people, organizations, and communities, as well as how creativity and innovation can effectively make a difference for the better in a world that increasingly needs new and innovative solutions to increasingly complex problems. From diverse cultures and scientific fields and dissimilar research methodologies, the contributions that make up this book present an integrated approach to creativity and innovation as central concepts to contribute to a better society and better world. We believe that creativity and innovation are indeed the forces that drive progress, expression, and discovery. Investing in them is investing in a better, more balanced, and sustainable world.
| Author | : Karl Albrecht |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 420 |
| Release | : 2007-06-15 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0787995657 |
Karl Albrecht’s bestselling book Social Intelligence showed us how dealing with people and social situations can determine success both at work and in life. Now, in this groundbreaking book Practical Intelligence, Albrecht takes the next step and explains how practical intelligence (PI) qualifies as one of the key life skills and offers a conceptual structure for defining and describing 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 ideas, and influence the ideas of others. Albrecht shows that everyone’s PI skills can be improved with proper education and training and challenges all of us—from parents and teachers to executives and managers—to upgrade our own skills and help others develop their own PI abilities.
| Author | : Philip Fine |
| Publisher | : Frontiers Media SA |
| Total Pages | : 374 |
| Release | : 2020-01-31 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 2889632172 |
| Author | : Suzanne Simard |
| Publisher | : Knopf |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2021-05-04 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0525656103 |
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest—a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery Suzanne Simard is a pioneer on the frontier of plant communication and intelligence; her TED talks have been viewed by more than 10 million people worldwide. In this, her first book, now available in paperback, Simard brings us into her world, the intimate world of the trees, in which she brilliantly illuminates the fascinating and vital truths--that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp, but are a complicated, interdependent circle of life; that forests are social, cooperative creatures connected through underground networks by which trees communicate their vitality and vulnerabilities with communal lives not that different from our own. Simard writes--in inspiring, illuminating, and accessible ways—how trees, living side by side for hundreds of years, have evolved, how they learn and adapt their behaviors, recognize neighbors, compete and cooperate with one another with sophistication, characteristics ascribed to human intelligence, traits that are the essence of civil societies--and at the center of it all, the Mother Trees: the mysterious, powerful forces that connect and sustain the others that surround them. And Simard writes of her own life, born and raised into a logging world in the rainforests of British Columbia, of her days as a child spent cataloging the trees from the forest and how she came to love and respect them. And as she writes of her scientific quest, she writes of her own journey, making us understand how deeply human scientific inquiry exists beyond data and technology, that it is about understanding who we are and our place in the world.
| Author | : L. Barsanti |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 541 |
| Release | : 2012-12-06 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9401001413 |
How fast and powerful can computers become? Will it be possible someday to create artificial brains that have intellectual capabilities comparable to those of human beings? The answers to these questions depend to a very great extent on a single factor: how small and dense we can make computer circuits. Very recently, scientists have achieved revolutionary advances that may very well radically change the future of computing. There are significant advantages to using biological molecules in a new computational paradigm, since nature has solved similar problems to those encountered in harnessing organic molecules to perform data manipulation. Biomolecules could be used as photonic devices in holography, as spatial light modulators, in neural network optical computing, as nonlinear optical devices, and as optical memories. Such computers may use a billion times less energy than electronic computers, while storing data in a trillionth of the space, while also being highly parallel. Research projects implemented by national and international groups have produced a large amount of data from multidisciplinary work, ranging from physics and engineering to chemistry and biology.
