The Art of Intentional Thinking (Second Edition)

The Art of Intentional Thinking (Second Edition)
Author: Peter Hollins
Publisher: PublishDrive
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2019-08-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Your mental models and mindsets will determine your life. Harness and control them to achieve the impossible. All we can control in this life is our thoughts, which lead to perception and action. If your thoughts are running amok, it will throw your life into chaos. The life you want comes from the way you think - you need to learn how to think intentionally. Discard unconscious, harmful beliefs and embrace your true power. The Art of Intentional Thinking is a guide on transformation. Your actions, behaviors, and perspective of the world stem from your thoughts. Unfortunately, this may be harming you rather than helping you. This book takes a deep look into how people tend to think, what exactly how they should subtly re-frame their thoughts to feel confident, powerful, happy, and in charge of their own life. Intentional thinking is your vehicle to get from Point A to Point B - Point B is the life you want. Every chapter has actionable advice to implement today. The changes are small and simple, but they have huge implications. Change your thinking to change your life. Peter Hollins has studied psychology and peak human performance for over a dozen years and is a bestselling author. He has worked with a multitude of individuals to unlock their potential and path towards success. His writing draws on his academic, coaching, and research experience. Learn to reshape unhealthy thought patterns and think clearly. •How to seize agency and control of your life. •Gain perseverance and willpower quickly. •How to think in terms of taking action and motion. •How to think big, yet with realistic steps. •Embrace gratitude, humility, and thoughtfulness.

The Art of Gathering

The Art of Gathering
Author: Priya Parker
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2020-04-14
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1594634939

"Hosts of all kinds, this is a must-read!" --Chris Anderson, owner and curator of TED From the host of the New York Times podcast Together Apart, an exciting new approach to how we gather that will transform the ways we spend our time together—at home, at work, in our communities, and beyond. In The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker argues that the gatherings in our lives are lackluster and unproductive--which they don't have to be. We rely too much on routine and the conventions of gatherings when we should focus on distinctiveness and the people involved. At a time when coming together is more important than ever, Parker sets forth a human-centered approach to gathering that will help everyone create meaningful, memorable experiences, large and small, for work and for play. Drawing on her expertise as a facilitator of high-powered gatherings around the world, Parker takes us inside events of all kinds to show what works, what doesn't, and why. She investigates a wide array of gatherings--conferences, meetings, a courtroom, a flash-mob party, an Arab-Israeli summer camp--and explains how simple, specific changes can invigorate any group experience. The result is a book that's both journey and guide, full of exciting ideas with real-world applications. The Art of Gathering will forever alter the way you look at your next meeting, industry conference, dinner party, and backyard barbecue--and how you host and attend them.

The Design Way

The Design Way
Author: Harold G. Nelson
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9780262018173

A book that lays out the fundamental concepts of design culture and outlines a design-driven way to approach the world.

Building the Intentional University

Building the Intentional University
Author: Stephen M. Kosslyn
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 457
Release: 2018-08-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0262536196

How to rebuild higher education from the ground up for the twenty-first century. Higher education is in crisis. It is too expensive, ineffective, and impractical for many of the world's students. But how would you reinvent it for the twenty-first century—how would you build it from the ground up? Many have speculated about changing higher education, but Minerva has actually created a new kind of university program. Its founders raised the funding, assembled the team, devised the curriculum and pedagogy, recruited the students, hired the faculty, and implemented a bold vision of a new and improved higher education. This book explains that vision and how it is being realized. The Minerva curriculum focuses on “practical knowledge” (knowledge students can use to adapt to a changing world); its pedagogy is based on scientific research on learning; it uses a novel technology platform to deliver small seminars in real time; and it offers a hybrid residential model where students live together, rotating through seven cities around the world. Minerva equips students with the cognitive tools they need to succeed in the world after graduation, building the core competencies of critical thinking, creative thinking, effective communication, and effective interaction. The book offers readers both the story of this grand and sweeping idea and a blueprint for transforming higher education.

Intentional Tech

Intentional Tech
Author: Derek Bruff
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: College teaching
ISBN: 9781949199161

Introduction -- Times for telling -- Practice and feedback -- Thin slices of learning -- Knowledge organizations -- Multimodal assignments -- Learning communities -- Authentic audiences -- Conclusion.

The Art and Craft of College Teaching, Second Edition

The Art and Craft of College Teaching, Second Edition
Author: Robert Rotenberg
Publisher: Left Coast Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2010-05-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1598745344

"This book is unusually good. Clear, comprehensive, and immediately useful, it should be read by every faculty member and department chair."---Peter Seldin, Pace University --Book Jacket.

The Intentional Teacher

The Intentional Teacher
Author: Ann S. Epstein
Publisher: Conran Octopus
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2014
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781938113062

Young children and teachers both have active roles in the learning processHow do preschoolers learn and develop? What are the best ways to support learning in the early years? This revised edition of The Intentional Teacher guides teachers to balance both child-guided and adult-guided learning experiences that build on children's interests and focus on what they need to learn to be successful in school and in life.This edition offers new chapters on science, social studies, and approaches to learning. Also included is updated, expanded information on social and emotional development, physical development and health, language and literacy, mathenatics, and the creative arts. In each chapter are many practical teaching strategies that are illustrated with classroom-based anecdotes.The Intentional Teacher encourages readers to- Reflect on their principles and practices- Broaden their thinking about appropriate early curriculum content and instructional methods- Discover specific ideas and teaching strategies for interacting with children in key subject areasIntentional teaching does not happen by chance. This book will help teachers apply their knowledge of children and of content to make thoughtful, intentional use of both child-guided and adult-guided experiences.

New Age Thinking

New Age Thinking
Author: Mel D. Faber
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 263
Release: 1996
Genre: New Age movement
ISBN: 0776604171

New Age thinking is sweeping vigorously through Western culture. This highly original study is rooted in human developmental psychology as it emerges through the work of M. Mahler, D. Stern, and C. Bollas. It discloses the extent to which New Agers rely on magical, regressive beliefs and behaviours to escape the internal torment that comes with the individual separateness and the stern demands of reason.

The Heart of the Photograph

The Heart of the Photograph
Author: David Duchemin
Publisher: Rocky Nook, Inc.
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2020-03-17
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1681985470

Learn to ask better, more helpful questions of your work so that you can create stronger and more powerful photographs.

Photographers often look at an image—one they’ve either already created or are in the process of making—and ask themselves a simple question: “Is this a good photograph?” It’s an understandable question, but it’s really not very helpful. How are you supposed to answer that? What does “good” even mean? Is it the same for everyone?

What if you were equipped to ask better, more constructive questions of your work so that you could think more intentionally and creatively, and in doing so, bring more specific action and vision to the act of creating photographs? What if asking stronger questions allowed you to establish a more effective approach to your image-making? In The Heart of the Photograph: 100 Questions for Making Stronger, More Expressive Photographs, photographer and author David duChemin helps you learn to ask better questions of your work in order to craft more successful photographs—photographs that express and connect, photographs that are strong and, above all, photographs that are truly yours.

From the big-picture questions—What do I want this image to accomplish?—to the more detail-oriented questions that help you get there—What is the light doing? Where do the lines lead? What can I do about it?—David walks you through his thought process so that you can establish your own. Along the way, he discusses the building blocks from which compelling photographs are made, such as gesture, balance, scale, contrast, perspective, story, memory, symbolism, and much more. The Heart of the Photograph is not a theoretical book. It is a practical and useful book that equips you to think more intentionally as a photographer and empowers you to ask more helpful questions of you and your work, so that you can produce images that are not only better than “good,” but as powerful and authentic as you hope them to be.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Better Questions

PART ONE: A GOOD PHOTOGRAPH?
Is It Good?
The Audience's Good
The Photographer's Good

PART TWO: BETTER THAN GOOD
Better Subjects

PART THREE: BETTER EXPRESSION
Exploration and Expression
What Is the Light Doing?
What Does Colour Contribute?
What Role Do the Lines and Shapes Play?
What's Your Point of View?
What Is the Quality of the Moment?
Where Is the Story?
Where Is the Contrast?
What About Balance and Tension?
What Is the Energy?
How Can I Use Space and Scale?
Can I Go Deeper?
What About the Frame?
Do the Elements Repeat?
Harmony
Can I Exclude More?
Where Does the Eye Go?
How Does It Feel?
Where's the Mystery?
Remember When?
Can I Use Symbols?
Am I Being Too Literal?

PART FOUR: BETTER PHOTOGRAPHS
The Heart of the Photograph
Index

Dynamics in Action

Dynamics in Action
Author: Alicia Juarrero
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2002-01-25
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780262600477

What is the difference between a wink and a blink? The answer is important not only to philosophers of mind, for significant moral and legal consequences rest on the distinction between voluntary and involuntary behavior. However, "action theory"—the branch of philosophy that has traditionally articulated the boundaries between action and non-action, and between voluntary and involuntary behavior—has been unable to account for the difference. Alicia Juarrero argues that a mistaken, 350-year-old model of cause and explanation—one that takes all causes to be of the push-pull, efficient cause sort, and all explanation to be prooflike—underlies contemporary theories of action. Juarrero then proposes a new framework for conceptualizing causes based on complex adaptive systems. Thinking of causes as dynamical constraints makes bottom-up and top-down causal relations, including those involving intentional causes, suddenly tractable. A different logic for explaining actions—as historical narrative, not inference—follows if one adopts this novel approach to long-standing questions of action and responsibility.