Book description
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.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- PREFACE
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- 1. A PROBLEM AND AN OPPORTUNITY
- 2. MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES: The Possible Human
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3. WHAT IS PRACTICAL INTELLIGENCE?
- 3.1. THINKING IS A BODILY FUNCTION
- 3.2. MEET YOUR BIOCOMPUTER
- 3.3. BRAINCYCLES, BRAINWAVES, BRAIN STATES, AND THE DAILY TRANCE
- 3.4. MINDMODULES: YOU HAVE MANY "MINDS"
- 3.5. MINDMODELS: YOUR PORTABLE REALITY
- 3.6. FOUR HABITS THAT UNLOCK YOUR MENTAL CAPACITY
- 3.7. FOUR DIMENSIONS OF PI: YOUR MEGA-SKILLS
- 3.8. GETTING STARTED: UPGRADING YOUR MENTAL "SOFTWARE"
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4. MENTAL SOFTWARE UPGRADE 1: Developing Mental Flexibility
- 4.1. ARE YOU A FINISHED PRODUCT?
- 4.2. DYNAMIC THINKING AND ARCHAIC THINKING
- 4.3. YOU MIGHT BE A MENTAL REDNECK . . .
- 4.4. THE CREATIVE PARADOX
- 4.5. THE "BEGINNER'S MIND": INNOCENCE AND HUMILITY
- 4.6. THE "PLEXITY" SCALE
- 4.7. THERE IS NO TRUTH—ONLY YOUR TRUTH, HIS TRUTH, HER TRUTH, THEIR TRUTH . . .
- 4.8. HOW I LEARNED TO STOP ARGUING WITH PEOPLE
- 4.9. A NEW WAY TO THINK ABOUT OPINIONS
- 4.10. THREE PHRASES THAT CAN KEEP YOUR MIND OPEN
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5. MENTAL SOFTWARE UPGRADE 2: Adopting Affirmative Thinking
- 5.1. CLEANING OUT THE ATTIC: MENTAL DECONTAMINATION
- 5.2. "SENSORSHIP": CHOOSING WHAT YOU WILL ALLOW INTO YOUR MIND
- 5.3. RESISTANCE TO ENCULTURATION, A.K.A."CRAP DETECTING"
- 5.4. CLEANSE YOUR MIND WITH A "MEDIA FAST"
- 5.5. RE-ENGINEERING YOUR ATTITUDES
- 5.6. THE ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE
- 5.7. THE ATTITUDE OF ABUNDANCE
- 5.8. PRACTICAL ALTRUISM
- 5.9. MEDITATION, MINDMOVIES, AND AFFIRMATIONS
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6. Mental Software Upgrade 3: Adopting Sane Language Habits
- 6.1. LANGUAGE AS MENTAL SOFTWARE: WHAT YOU SAY IS WHAT YOU THINK
- 6.2. HOW LANGUAGE "PACKAGES" YOUR THOUGHTS
- 6.3. JUMPING TO CONFUSIONS: INFERENTIAL THINKING
- 6.4. "CLEAN" AND "DIRTY" LANGUAGE: STRATEGIES FOR SEMANTIC SANITY
- 6.5. EXPRESSIONS YOU CAN REMOVE FROM YOUR VOCABULARY
- 6.6. THE SELF-CONVERSATION: CLEANING UP YOUR INTERNAL DIALOG
- 6.7. SNAPPY COME-BACKS: THE LANGUAGE OF FUNNY
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7. MENTAL SOFTWARE UPGRADE 4: Valuing Ideas
- 7.1. DO YOU HAVE LOTS OF GOOD IDEAS? (ALMOST EVERYONE DOES)
- 7.2. "IT SLIPPED MY MIND . . ." (ALMOST EVERYTHING DOES)
- 7.3. THE GREATEST THINKING TOOL EVER INVENTED
- 7.4. THINKING IN PICTURES
- 7.5. ARE YOU A YES-PERSON OR A NO-PERSON?
- 7.6. THE P.I.N. FORMULA: PROTECTING IDEAS
- 7.7. USING YOUR MAGICAL INCUBATOR
- 7.8. "METABOXICAL" THINKING: BREAKING THE BOUNDARIES
- 8. MEGA-SKILL 1: "Bivergent" Thinking
- 9. MEGA-SKILL 2: "Helicopter" Thinking
- 10. MEGA-SKILL 3: "Intulogical" Thinking
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11. MEGA-SKILL 4: "Viscerational" Thinking
- 11.1. THE RATIONAL-EMOTIVE POLARITY: THE R-E AXIS
- 11.2. FIRST WE DECIDE, THEN WE JUSTIFY: IRRATIONAL THINKING EXPLAINED
- 11.3. WE'RE ALL NEUROTIC, AND THAT'S OK
- 11.4. THE FIVE PRIMAL FEARS WE LIVE BY: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF RISK
- 11.5. SIGNAL REACTIONS: DISCONNECTING YOUR HOT BUTTONS
- 11.6. EMOTIONS AND HEALTH: IF IT'S ON YOUR MIND, IT'S ON YOUR BODY
- 11.7. CAN YOU MOTIVATE YOURSELF? THE "POPEYE POINT"
- 12. HOW TO BECOME AN EXPERT PROBLEM SOLVER
- 13. SUCCESS PROGRAMMING: Causing the Outcomes You Want
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A. Answers to Thinking Exercises
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A.1. Chapter 6. Solution to the "Inference" Problem
- A.1.1. Chapter 6. Solution to the "Inference" Problem
- A.1.2. Chapter 7. Solution to the "Bookworm" Problem
- A.1.3. Chapter 7. Solution to the Famous Nine-Dot Problem
- A.1.4. Chapter 7. Solution to the Anagram "teralbay"
- A.1.5. Chapter 10. Solution to the "Boat" Problem
- A.1.6. Chapter 10 Solution to the Water Glass Problem
- A.1.7. Chapter 10. Word Ladders
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A.1. Chapter 6. Solution to the "Inference" Problem
- B. FIFTY TIPS FOR BETTER THINKING
- C. A VOCABULARY FOR PRACTICAL INTELLIGENCE
- D. A CODE OF INTELLIGENT DISCOURSE
- E. LEARN TO MEDITATE IN "ONE" LESSON: The Harvard Mantra
Product information
- Title: Practical Intelligence: The Art and Science of Common Sense
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2009
- Publisher(s): Pfeiffer
- ISBN: 9780470444320
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