How to Think More Effectively
Description
We know that our minds are capable of great things because, every now and then, they come out with a brilliant idea or two. However, our minds are also unpredictable, spending large stretches of time idling or distracting themselves.
This is a book about how to optimize these beautiful yet fitful instruments so that they can more regularly and generously produce the sort of insights and ideas we need to fulfill our potential and achieve the contentment we deserve.
Among other things, we learn how to grasp fragile and flighty thoughts before they disappear through anxiety and fear; at what times of day to try to work and for how long; how to make use of our boredom and instincts; and how to overcome timid and predictable approaches to the largest problems. The result is an operating manual to that most wondrous, though intermittent and always baffling, organ: the human mind.
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The School of Life Press brings together the thinking and ideas of the School of Life creative team under the direction of series editor, Alain de Botton. Their books share a coherent, curated message that speaks with one voice: calm, reassuring, and sane.
Content
Introduction
1 Strategic Thinking
2 Cumulative Thinking
3 Butterfly Thinking
4 Independent Thinking
5 Focused Thinking
6 Philosophical Meditation
7 'Mad' Thinking
8 Friend Thinking
9 Reading Thinking
10 Envious Thinking
11 Analogical Thinking
12 Empathetic Thinking
13 Death Thinking
14 Love Thinking
15 Skeptical Thinking
