Author: Matt Landry
Publisher: Learning to Be
ISBN: 9781521095829
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Today, more than ever, we are losing sight of our humanity. You were taught to feel like you don't belong and much of the teaching came from yourself. You wen't born that way, though. It's time you learned that you are more than enough just as you are right now. Finally, a guide that will help you uncover the human you truly are and the happy, content, relaxed, satisfied, and self-confident person you were meant to be. Do you remember who you were before everyone told you who you should be? Buried deep within our confused, stressed out, and depressed lives is a happy person looking to break free of the chains of what we've been told we should be, and live a life free of the pressures society can place on us. We're told that we need to look a certain way, live a life in accordance with the rules of a specific religion, or make an allotted amount of money. The World around us has become a hurried, chaotic, and technological war on our brains. Learning to Be Human Again will help you to uncover your potential as a human by changing your thinking habits using a variety of proven exercises. This guide will help you to simplify your life by changing your thinking and introducing tools to begin practicing better daily habits. Human nature is slipping away from us, and as a result, we're having a harder time coping with the world, society, and the people around us. Let's take a step back and learn just what it means to be a human first, so we can understand ourselves and everyone else a little better.
Learning to Be Human Again
Author: Matt Landry
Publisher: Learning to Be
ISBN: 9781521095829
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Today, more than ever, we are losing sight of our humanity. You were taught to feel like you don't belong and much of the teaching came from yourself. You wen't born that way, though. It's time you learned that you are more than enough just as you are right now. Finally, a guide that will help you uncover the human you truly are and the happy, content, relaxed, satisfied, and self-confident person you were meant to be. Do you remember who you were before everyone told you who you should be? Buried deep within our confused, stressed out, and depressed lives is a happy person looking to break free of the chains of what we've been told we should be, and live a life free of the pressures society can place on us. We're told that we need to look a certain way, live a life in accordance with the rules of a specific religion, or make an allotted amount of money. The World around us has become a hurried, chaotic, and technological war on our brains. Learning to Be Human Again will help you to uncover your potential as a human by changing your thinking habits using a variety of proven exercises. This guide will help you to simplify your life by changing your thinking and introducing tools to begin practicing better daily habits. Human nature is slipping away from us, and as a result, we're having a harder time coping with the world, society, and the people around us. Let's take a step back and learn just what it means to be a human first, so we can understand ourselves and everyone else a little better.
Publisher: Learning to Be
ISBN: 9781521095829
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Today, more than ever, we are losing sight of our humanity. You were taught to feel like you don't belong and much of the teaching came from yourself. You wen't born that way, though. It's time you learned that you are more than enough just as you are right now. Finally, a guide that will help you uncover the human you truly are and the happy, content, relaxed, satisfied, and self-confident person you were meant to be. Do you remember who you were before everyone told you who you should be? Buried deep within our confused, stressed out, and depressed lives is a happy person looking to break free of the chains of what we've been told we should be, and live a life free of the pressures society can place on us. We're told that we need to look a certain way, live a life in accordance with the rules of a specific religion, or make an allotted amount of money. The World around us has become a hurried, chaotic, and technological war on our brains. Learning to Be Human Again will help you to uncover your potential as a human by changing your thinking habits using a variety of proven exercises. This guide will help you to simplify your life by changing your thinking and introducing tools to begin practicing better daily habits. Human nature is slipping away from us, and as a result, we're having a harder time coping with the world, society, and the people around us. Let's take a step back and learn just what it means to be a human first, so we can understand ourselves and everyone else a little better.
The First 20 Hours
Author: Josh Kaufman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101623047
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Forget the 10,000 hour rule— what if it’s possible to learn the basics of any new skill in 20 hours or less? Take a moment to consider how many things you want to learn to do. What’s on your list? What’s holding you back from getting started? Are you worried about the time and effort it takes to acquire new skills—time you don’t have and effort you can’t spare? Research suggests it takes 10,000 hours to develop a new skill. In this nonstop world when will you ever find that much time and energy? To make matters worse, the early hours of practicing something new are always the most frustrating. That’s why it’s difficult to learn how to speak a new language, play an instrument, hit a golf ball, or shoot great photos. It’s so much easier to watch TV or surf the web . . . In The First 20 Hours, Josh Kaufman offers a systematic approach to rapid skill acquisition— how to learn any new skill as quickly as possible. His method shows you how to deconstruct complex skills, maximize productive practice, and remove common learning barriers. By completing just 20 hours of focused, deliberate practice you’ll go from knowing absolutely nothing to performing noticeably well. Kaufman personally field-tested the methods in this book. You’ll have a front row seat as he develops a personal yoga practice, writes his own web-based computer programs, teaches himself to touch type on a nonstandard keyboard, explores the oldest and most complex board game in history, picks up the ukulele, and learns how to windsurf. Here are a few of the simple techniques he teaches: Define your target performance level: Figure out what your desired level of skill looks like, what you’re trying to achieve, and what you’ll be able to do when you’re done. The more specific, the better. Deconstruct the skill: Most of the things we think of as skills are actually bundles of smaller subskills. If you break down the subcomponents, it’s easier to figure out which ones are most important and practice those first. Eliminate barriers to practice: Removing common distractions and unnecessary effort makes it much easier to sit down and focus on deliberate practice. Create fast feedback loops: Getting accurate, real-time information about how well you’re performing during practice makes it much easier to improve. Whether you want to paint a portrait, launch a start-up, fly an airplane, or juggle flaming chainsaws, The First 20 Hours will help you pick up the basics of any skill in record time . . . and have more fun along the way.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101623047
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Forget the 10,000 hour rule— what if it’s possible to learn the basics of any new skill in 20 hours or less? Take a moment to consider how many things you want to learn to do. What’s on your list? What’s holding you back from getting started? Are you worried about the time and effort it takes to acquire new skills—time you don’t have and effort you can’t spare? Research suggests it takes 10,000 hours to develop a new skill. In this nonstop world when will you ever find that much time and energy? To make matters worse, the early hours of practicing something new are always the most frustrating. That’s why it’s difficult to learn how to speak a new language, play an instrument, hit a golf ball, or shoot great photos. It’s so much easier to watch TV or surf the web . . . In The First 20 Hours, Josh Kaufman offers a systematic approach to rapid skill acquisition— how to learn any new skill as quickly as possible. His method shows you how to deconstruct complex skills, maximize productive practice, and remove common learning barriers. By completing just 20 hours of focused, deliberate practice you’ll go from knowing absolutely nothing to performing noticeably well. Kaufman personally field-tested the methods in this book. You’ll have a front row seat as he develops a personal yoga practice, writes his own web-based computer programs, teaches himself to touch type on a nonstandard keyboard, explores the oldest and most complex board game in history, picks up the ukulele, and learns how to windsurf. Here are a few of the simple techniques he teaches: Define your target performance level: Figure out what your desired level of skill looks like, what you’re trying to achieve, and what you’ll be able to do when you’re done. The more specific, the better. Deconstruct the skill: Most of the things we think of as skills are actually bundles of smaller subskills. If you break down the subcomponents, it’s easier to figure out which ones are most important and practice those first. Eliminate barriers to practice: Removing common distractions and unnecessary effort makes it much easier to sit down and focus on deliberate practice. Create fast feedback loops: Getting accurate, real-time information about how well you’re performing during practice makes it much easier to improve. Whether you want to paint a portrait, launch a start-up, fly an airplane, or juggle flaming chainsaws, The First 20 Hours will help you pick up the basics of any skill in record time . . . and have more fun along the way.
Learning To Be Human
Author: Leston L. Havens
Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Original Wisdom
Author: Robert Wolff
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1594776717
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
• Explores the lifestyle of indigenous peoples of the world who exist in complete harmony with the natural world and with each other. • Reveals a model of a society built on trust, patience, and joy rather than anxiety, hurry, and acquisition. • Shows how we can reconnect with the ancient intuitive awareness of the world's original people. Deep in the mountainous jungle of Malaysia the aboriginal Sng'oi exist on the edge of extinction, though their way of living may ultimately be the kind of existence that will allow us all to survive. The Sng'oi--pre-industrial, pre-agricultural, semi-nomadic--live without cars or cell phones, without clocks or schedules in a lush green place where worry and hurry, competition and suspicion are not known. Yet these indigenous people--as do many other aboriginal groups--possess an acute and uncanny sense of the energies, emotions, and intentions of their place and the living beings who populate it, and trustingly follow this intuition, using it to make decisions about their actions each day. Psychologist Robert Wolff lived with the Sng'oi, learned their language, shared their food, slept in their huts, and came to love and admire these people who respect silence, trust time to reveal and heal, and live entirely in the present with a sense of joy. Even more, he came to recognize the depth of our alienation from these basic qualities of life. Much more than a document of a disappearing people, Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing holds a mirror to our own existence, allowing us to see how far we have wandered from the ways of the intuitive and trusting Sng'oi, and challenges us, in our fragmented world, to rediscover this humanity within ourselves.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1594776717
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
• Explores the lifestyle of indigenous peoples of the world who exist in complete harmony with the natural world and with each other. • Reveals a model of a society built on trust, patience, and joy rather than anxiety, hurry, and acquisition. • Shows how we can reconnect with the ancient intuitive awareness of the world's original people. Deep in the mountainous jungle of Malaysia the aboriginal Sng'oi exist on the edge of extinction, though their way of living may ultimately be the kind of existence that will allow us all to survive. The Sng'oi--pre-industrial, pre-agricultural, semi-nomadic--live without cars or cell phones, without clocks or schedules in a lush green place where worry and hurry, competition and suspicion are not known. Yet these indigenous people--as do many other aboriginal groups--possess an acute and uncanny sense of the energies, emotions, and intentions of their place and the living beings who populate it, and trustingly follow this intuition, using it to make decisions about their actions each day. Psychologist Robert Wolff lived with the Sng'oi, learned their language, shared their food, slept in their huts, and came to love and admire these people who respect silence, trust time to reveal and heal, and live entirely in the present with a sense of joy. Even more, he came to recognize the depth of our alienation from these basic qualities of life. Much more than a document of a disappearing people, Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing holds a mirror to our own existence, allowing us to see how far we have wandered from the ways of the intuitive and trusting Sng'oi, and challenges us, in our fragmented world, to rediscover this humanity within ourselves.
Try Again
Author: Joseph Loturco
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595217095
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Science fiction today, fact tomorrow. Travel aboard the battleship, explore and defend the fleet as it meets aliens for trading.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595217095
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Science fiction today, fact tomorrow. Travel aboard the battleship, explore and defend the fleet as it meets aliens for trading.
Back to Human
Author: Dan Schawbel
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
ISBN: 0738235016
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER A Financial Times Book of the Month Back to Human explains how a more socially connected workforce creates greater fulfillment, productivity, and engagement while preventing burnout and turnover. The next generation of leaders must create a workplace where teammates feel genuinely connected, engaged, and empowered -- without relying on technology. Based on Dan Schawbel's exclusive research studies -- featuring the perspectives of over 2,000 managers and employees across different age groups -- Back to Human reveals why virtual communication, though vital and useful, actually contributes to a stronger sense of isolation at work than ever before. How can we change this culture? Schawbel offers a self-assessment called the "Work Connectivity Index" that measures the strength of team relationships. He also shares exercises, examples, and activities that readers can work on individually or as a team, which will help them increase personal productivity, be more collaborative, and become more fulfilled at work. Back to Human ultimately helps you decide when and how to use technology to build better connections in your work life. It is a call to action to leaders across the world to make the workplace a better experience for all of us.
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
ISBN: 0738235016
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER A Financial Times Book of the Month Back to Human explains how a more socially connected workforce creates greater fulfillment, productivity, and engagement while preventing burnout and turnover. The next generation of leaders must create a workplace where teammates feel genuinely connected, engaged, and empowered -- without relying on technology. Based on Dan Schawbel's exclusive research studies -- featuring the perspectives of over 2,000 managers and employees across different age groups -- Back to Human reveals why virtual communication, though vital and useful, actually contributes to a stronger sense of isolation at work than ever before. How can we change this culture? Schawbel offers a self-assessment called the "Work Connectivity Index" that measures the strength of team relationships. He also shares exercises, examples, and activities that readers can work on individually or as a team, which will help them increase personal productivity, be more collaborative, and become more fulfilled at work. Back to Human ultimately helps you decide when and how to use technology to build better connections in your work life. It is a call to action to leaders across the world to make the workplace a better experience for all of us.
Seen Known + Heard
Author: Lauren C Shippy
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
In Seen, Known + Heard, Lauren Shippy walks us through a journey of understanding ourselves and all of those around us (family, coworkers, friends, and more) so that we can: • Uncover our longing for more in this life. • Understand how to communicate best with all ages so that we can enjoy relationships, rather than spend time fighting generational dynamics. • Get fulfillment for ourselves and from our relationships at work and at home. • Take an inventory of our own previous wounds in life, and understand how they apply to how we react today, and what we can do to heal them. • Discover the 4 steps to seeing, hearing and knowing yourself and others so that you can practice this in your life and business. • Know how to create a powerful culture that shifts neighborhoods, workplaces, schools, governments, families, and friendships. • Walk away feeling refreshed, renewed, healed and a bit more whole.
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
In Seen, Known + Heard, Lauren Shippy walks us through a journey of understanding ourselves and all of those around us (family, coworkers, friends, and more) so that we can: • Uncover our longing for more in this life. • Understand how to communicate best with all ages so that we can enjoy relationships, rather than spend time fighting generational dynamics. • Get fulfillment for ourselves and from our relationships at work and at home. • Take an inventory of our own previous wounds in life, and understand how they apply to how we react today, and what we can do to heal them. • Discover the 4 steps to seeing, hearing and knowing yourself and others so that you can practice this in your life and business. • Know how to create a powerful culture that shifts neighborhoods, workplaces, schools, governments, families, and friendships. • Walk away feeling refreshed, renewed, healed and a bit more whole.
The Marvelous Learning Animal
Author: Arthur W. Staats
Publisher: Prometheus Books
ISBN: 1616145986
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
What makes us human? In recent decades, researchers have focused on innate tendencies and inherited traits as explanations for human behavior, especially in light of groundbreaking human genome research. The author thinks this trend is misleading. As he shows in great detail in this engaging, thought-provoking, and highly informative book, what makes our species unique is our marvelous ability to learn, which is an ability that no other primate possesses. In his exploration of human progress, the author reveals that the immensity of human learning has not been fully understood or examined. Evolution has endowed us with extremely versatile bodies and a brain comprised of one hundred billion neurons, which makes us especially suited for a wide range of sophisticated learning. Already in childhood, human beings begin learning complex repertoires—language, sports, value systems, music, science, rules of behavior, and many other aspects of culture. These repertoires build on one another in special ways, and our brains develop in response to the learning experiences we receive from those around us and from what we read and hear and see. When humans gather in society, the cumulative effect of building learning upon learning is enormous. The author presents a new way of understanding humanness—in the behavioral nature of the human body, in the unique human way of learning, in child development, in personality, and in abnormal behavior. With all this, and his years of basic and applied research, he develops a new theory of human evolution and a new vision of the human being. This book offers up a unified concept that not only provides new ways of understanding human behavior and solving human problems but also lays the foundations for opening new areas of science.
Publisher: Prometheus Books
ISBN: 1616145986
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
What makes us human? In recent decades, researchers have focused on innate tendencies and inherited traits as explanations for human behavior, especially in light of groundbreaking human genome research. The author thinks this trend is misleading. As he shows in great detail in this engaging, thought-provoking, and highly informative book, what makes our species unique is our marvelous ability to learn, which is an ability that no other primate possesses. In his exploration of human progress, the author reveals that the immensity of human learning has not been fully understood or examined. Evolution has endowed us with extremely versatile bodies and a brain comprised of one hundred billion neurons, which makes us especially suited for a wide range of sophisticated learning. Already in childhood, human beings begin learning complex repertoires—language, sports, value systems, music, science, rules of behavior, and many other aspects of culture. These repertoires build on one another in special ways, and our brains develop in response to the learning experiences we receive from those around us and from what we read and hear and see. When humans gather in society, the cumulative effect of building learning upon learning is enormous. The author presents a new way of understanding humanness—in the behavioral nature of the human body, in the unique human way of learning, in child development, in personality, and in abnormal behavior. With all this, and his years of basic and applied research, he develops a new theory of human evolution and a new vision of the human being. This book offers up a unified concept that not only provides new ways of understanding human behavior and solving human problems but also lays the foundations for opening new areas of science.
The Good Man
Author: Edward Jae-Suk Lee
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1882593944
Category : Amnesia
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
With this striking novel, Edward Jae-Suk Lee delivers the beautifully and poignantly told story of Gabriel Cuttman, an aging Korean War veteran--a good man who has done bad things and is struggling with a terrible secret.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1882593944
Category : Amnesia
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
With this striking novel, Edward Jae-Suk Lee delivers the beautifully and poignantly told story of Gabriel Cuttman, an aging Korean War veteran--a good man who has done bad things and is struggling with a terrible secret.
Wellbeing, Equity and Education
Author: Jennifer Spratt
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 331950066X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
This book critically examines multiple discourses of wellbeing in relation to the composite aims of schooling. Drawing from a Scottish study, the book disentangles the discursive complexity, to better understand what can happen in the name of wellbeing, and in particular, how wellbeing is linked to learning in schools. Arguing that educational discourses have been overshadowed by discourses of other groups, the book examines the political and ideological policy aims that can be supported by different discourses of wellbeing. It also uses interview data to show how teachers and policy actors accepted, or re-shaped and remodelled the policy discourses as they made sense of them in their own work. When addressing schools’ responses to inequalities, discussions are often framed in terms of wellbeing. Yet wellbeing as a concept is poorly defined and differently understood across academic and professional disciplines such as philosophy, psychology, health promotion, and social care. Nonetheless, its universally positive connotations allow policy changes to be ushered in, unchallenged. Powerful actions can be exerted through the use of soft vocabulary as the discourse of wellbeing legitimates schools’ intervention into personal aspects of children’s lives. As educators worldwide struggle over the meaning and purpose of schooling, discourses of wellbeing can be mobilised in support of different agendas. This book demonstrates how this holds both dangers and opportunities for equality in education. Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach is used to offer a way forward in which different understandings of wellbeing can be drawn together to offer a perspective that enhances young people’s freedoms in education and their freedoms gained through education.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 331950066X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
This book critically examines multiple discourses of wellbeing in relation to the composite aims of schooling. Drawing from a Scottish study, the book disentangles the discursive complexity, to better understand what can happen in the name of wellbeing, and in particular, how wellbeing is linked to learning in schools. Arguing that educational discourses have been overshadowed by discourses of other groups, the book examines the political and ideological policy aims that can be supported by different discourses of wellbeing. It also uses interview data to show how teachers and policy actors accepted, or re-shaped and remodelled the policy discourses as they made sense of them in their own work. When addressing schools’ responses to inequalities, discussions are often framed in terms of wellbeing. Yet wellbeing as a concept is poorly defined and differently understood across academic and professional disciplines such as philosophy, psychology, health promotion, and social care. Nonetheless, its universally positive connotations allow policy changes to be ushered in, unchallenged. Powerful actions can be exerted through the use of soft vocabulary as the discourse of wellbeing legitimates schools’ intervention into personal aspects of children’s lives. As educators worldwide struggle over the meaning and purpose of schooling, discourses of wellbeing can be mobilised in support of different agendas. This book demonstrates how this holds both dangers and opportunities for equality in education. Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach is used to offer a way forward in which different understandings of wellbeing can be drawn together to offer a perspective that enhances young people’s freedoms in education and their freedoms gained through education.