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A problem and an opportunity -- Accidental intelligence : the terminal assumption -- The widening smart gap? -- The dumbing of America and the culture of amusement -- Knows and know-nots : the new social divide -- Who cares? : who needs to care? -- Multiple intelligences : the possible human -- IQ doesn't tell the whole story -- There are at least six kinds of smart -- Building out : applying theory to everyday life -- Build-out 1: emotional intelligence -- Build-out 2: social intelligence -- The next build-out: practical intelligence -- What is practical intelligence? -- Thinking is a bodily function -- Meet your biocomputer -- Brain cycles, brainwaves, brain states, and the daily trance -- Mind-modules : you have many minds? -- Mind-models : your portable reality -- Habits that unlock your mental capacity -- Dimensions of PI : your mega-skills -- Getting started : upgrading your mental software? -- Mental software upgrade 1: developing mental flexibility -- Are you a finished product? -- Dynamic thinking and archaic thinking -- You might be a mental redneck -- The creative paradox -- The beginner's mind : innocence and humility -- The plexity scale -- There is no truth, only your truth, his truth, her truth, their truth -- How I learned to stop arguing with people -- A new way to think about opinions -- Phrases that can keep your mind open -- Mental software upgrade 2 : adopting affirmative thinking -- Cleaning out the attic : mental decontamination -- Sensorship : choosing what you will allow into your mind -- Resistance to enculturation, A.K.A. crap detecting? -- Cleanse your mind with a media fast -- Re-engineering your attitudes -- The attitude of gratitude -- The attitude of abundance -- Practical altruism -- Meditation, mindmovies, and affirmations -- Mental software upgrade 3 : adopting sane language habits -- Language as mental software : what you say is what you think -- The cookie cutter effect of language -- Jumping to confusions : inferential. |
