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Listen to the MP3 excerpt of this title! Listen to the WMA excerpt of this title! From the book Introduction: Your Brain Is Much Better Than You Think Although it is hard to overstate Leonardo da Vinci's brilliance, recent scientific research reveals that you probably underestimate your own capabilities. You are gifted with virtually unlimited potential for learning and creativity. Ninety-five percent of what we know about the capabilities of the human brain has been learned in the last twenty years. Our schools, universities, and corporations are only beginning to apply this emerging understanding of human potential. Let's set the stage for learning how to think like Leonardo by considering the contemporary view of intelligence and some results of the investigation into the nature and extent of your brain's potential. Most of us grew up with a concept of intelligence based on the traditional IQ test. The IQ test was originated by Alfred Binet (1857-1911) to measure, objectively, comprehension, reasoning, and judgment. Binet was motivated by a powerful enthusiasm for the emerging discipline of psychology and a desire to overcome the cultural and class prejudices of late nineteenth-century France in the assessment of children's academic potential. Although the traditional concept of IQ was a breakthrough at the time of its formulation, contemporary research shows that it suffers from two significant flaws. The first flaw is the idea that intelligence is fixed at birth and immutable. Although individuals are endowed genetically with more or less talent in a given area, researchers such as Buzan, Machado, Wenger, and many others have shown that IQ scores can be raised significantly through appropriate training. In a recent statistical review of more than two hundred studies of IQ published in the journal Nature, Bernard Devlin concluded that genes account for no more than 48 percent of IQ. Fifty-two percent is a function of prenatal care, environment, and education. The second weakness in the commonly held concept of intelligence is the idea that the verbal and mathematical reasoning skills measured by IQ tests (and SATs) are the sine qua nons of intelligence. This narrow view of intelligence has been thoroughly debunked by contemporary psychological research. In his modern classic, Frames of Mind (1983), psychologist Howard Gardner introduced the theory of multiple intelligences, which posits that each of us possesses at least seven measurable intelligences (in later work Gardner and his colleagues catalogued twenty-five different subintelligences). The seven intelligences, and some genius exemplars (other than Leonardo da Vinci, who was a genius in all of these areas) of each one, are: Logical-Mathematical--Stephen Hawking, Isaac Newton, Marie Curie Verbal-Linguistic--William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Jorge Luis Borges Spatial-Mechanical--Michelangelo, Georgia O'Keeffe, Buckminster Fuller Musical--Mozart, George Gershwin, Ella Fitzgerald Bodily-Kinesthetic--Morihei Ueshiba, Muhammad Ali, F. M. Alexander Interpersonal-Social--Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Queen Elizabeth I Intrapersonal (Self-knowledge)--Viktor Frankl, Thich Nhat Hanh, Mother Teresa The theory of multiple intelligences is now accepted widely and when combined with the realization that intelligence can be developed throughout life, offers a powerful inspiration for aspiring Renaissance men and women. In addition to expanding the understanding of the nature and scope of intelligence, contemporary psychological research has revealed startling...  $0.20 Rewards Audio Book (MP3) [ 24.8 Mb ]Street Date: Wednesday, December 1, 1999 Audio Book (WMA) [ 12.6 Mb ]Street Date: Wednesday, December 1, 1999 Listen to the MP3 excerpt of this title! Listen to the WMA excerpt of this title! $0.42 Rewards
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Audio Book (MP3) [ 142.4 Mb ]Street Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 Audio Book (WMA) [ 72.7 Mb ]Street Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 Listen to the MP3 excerpt of this title! Listen to the WMA excerpt of this title! From the book One That's Your Story? Slow death. An uglier two-word phrase it's hard to find. But if you're at all like the people I see in our workshops, then I'm afraid you understand the phrase all too well. How did it come to this? What am I doing? Where am I going? What do I want? Is my life working on any meaningful level? Why doesn't it work better? Am I right now dying, slowly, for something I'm not willing to die for? WHY AM I WORKING SO HARD, MOVING SO FAST, FEELING SO LOUSY? One man I heard about was quite literally going through slow death. A senior executive at a big firm, he was home the last few weeks of his life, in the final stage of cancer, in and out of lucidity, medicated so heavily that his tongue loosened and he regularly spewed his unfiltered, apparently truest thoughts. He cursed at his wife as never before, using vile, demeaning language -- all while she was caring for him day and night, knowing these were his last days on earth, the final days of their long marriage. He did the same to his kids when they visited, making an already difficult situation for them nearly intolerable, and certainly bringing them nothing remotely like peaceful closure. Mostly, though, the man's most shocking, blistering commentary was reserved, in absentia, for his boss: vicious, intermittently coherent paroxysms of resentment and contempt for the president of his firm who, it was painfully obvious now, the dying executive blamed for most of the anger, frustration, and general rottenness he'd felt the past two decades. Slow death. It comes in different forms. Two years ago a heart surgeon came to our institute. The first morning he had his blood work done and took a turn in the BodPod (a chamber inside which one's lean body mass can be measured with exceptional accuracy, through the displacement of air rather than water). His results were borderline alarming -- extremely elevated levels of cholesterol, glucose, blood lipids, triglycerides, C-reactive protein. He was given a copy of the results. When his turn came to discuss the meaning of the numbers and how to approach them, the surgeon said, "I don't want to talk about it." "You know what these numbers mean," said Raquel Malo, our director of nutrition and executive training. "Of course I do," he snapped. "I'm a doctor!" "What if I was your patient and I got these numbers?" "I'd be all over you." "Yet you're telling me -- " "I said I don't want to talk about it." "But -- " "Change the subject or I'm on the next plane home," he said. "Don't bring it up again while I'm here." Two days later the doctor left, having done nothing to address his perilous health, or even to acknowledge there was anything to address. He returned to his thriving medical practice, where he would continue to caution patients to reduce their risk of cardiovascular disease. (Of all the demographics we see, health care providers as a group hover near the bottom in fitness and physical well-being.) Slow death: what a harsh phrase. Is that really what's happening to all those people, the ones who start out contented by what is good and pure in life -- a simple cup of coffee, a few seemingly reasonable life goals (a nice salary, say, and one's own home) -- and who, once they've achieved those goals, can't even be satisfied because they've already moved on to life's next-sized latte (six-figure salary, second home, three cars), only to move on to something double-extra grande when that's... $0.55 Rewards
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Listen to the MP3 excerpt of this title! Listen to the WMA excerpt of this title! Chapter One IT'S CALLED A BREAKUP BECAUSE IT'S BROKEN In these first few hours or days or weeks of your breakup, there's one all-important truth that you need to recognize: Some things can't and shouldn't be fixed, especially that loser who dumped you or forced you to dump him. It's over for a reason, and even if you're in denial about it, deep down inside you probably know what that reason is. Even if you feel baffled by his decision to end it, it boils down to the same thing every time: Your relationship, despite its promise, has ceased to be right for one or both of you. It is, in effect, broken. That doesn't make the breakup any easier to handle or change the overwhelming nature of the sadness that you feel. But that sadness, in turn, doesn't make it less broken. If you've reached this point, where one or both of you feel that walking away is the best course of action, the cracks are there. And starting today, you're not the kind of woman who settles for broken or hangs on to damaged goods, be it a radio, a pair of shoes, or a relationship. Your life is not a yard sale. It's time to get rid of all the broken stuff that you've been lugging around for days, months, and maybe even years, and make the bold decision to start looking for stuff that works. The bright, clean, simple, easy, runs-so-smoothly-I-don't-even-have-to-think-about-it kind of works. Being the first one to recognize that a relationship isn't a match doesn't win you any great prize--just the guilt of having to hurt someone's feelings. So even though you are clearly wounded, getting out of this broken relationship is the best thing possible, even if you didn't know it was broken until now. "But some things can be fixed,"you say. True, but can your relationship be fixed? Anything is possible, but we'd say probably not. Generally, if one person thinks that the breakup is the right move, they're probably right even if it feels so wrong. Because unless there are two people putting on the coveralls and getting down in the trenches with some duct tape and superglue and a fierce determination, it isn't going to happen. Need more convincing? How about this: The person you loved took a good long look at the awesomeness that is you, evaluated your relationship together, and said, "No, thanks. I'll try my luck elsewhere." Or you said it to him. Either way, that alone should make you realize that it wasn't a match made in heaven and they're not worth donning coveralls for. Anyone who assesses you or your relationship as disposable is not worthy of your time or tears. Right now, your mind is probably working overtime to come up with all the reasons that you should still be together. Your heart is hurting and your mind wants to find a way to undo the pain. Just... $0.32 Rewards
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