Working wonders : how to make the impossible happen /
Ryszard Praszkier.
Bok Engelsk 2019 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (xii, 199 pages) : : digital, PDF file(s).
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| Utgave | 1st ed.
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| Opplysninger | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jul 2019).. - Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Author's Note: List of Characters -- Introduction -- Part I Those Who Made the Impossible Happen -- Chapter 1 "The Purpose of Work Is to Feel Good about Life" -- Pursuing a New Idea against All Odds -- The Implementation and the Success -- What Are His Messages? -- Spreading the Word despite Adversity -- Changing Impossible to Possible -- Chapter 2 Bringing Empathy to Schools -- Aggression and Bullying in Schools Become Prevailing -- A Dream: School Without Aggression -- The Key to Change in the Classroom -- Baby Time -- Documenting ROE's Impact -- Now the Preschoolers! -- Changing Impossible to Possible -- Chapter 3 "Moving the World with One Hand" -- Disaster Strikes -- First Glimmers of Hope -- Making It About Others -- Skepticism -- Building Sustainability -- Changing Impossible to Possible -- Chapter 4 Those Who Made the Impossible Happen -- What Do They Have in Common? -- A New Personality Characteristic: Possibilitivity -- Working Wonders: How to Make the Impossible Happen -- Striking the Balance -- Opposition Through Humor in the Polish Underground Solidarity Movement -- Part II Entrenching and Defending the Fortress -- Chapter 5 Brain Unmalleability -- Plasticity and Unmalleability -- Perceiving New Challenges -- Examples of "No Way" Reactions -- Chapter 6 Keep It Consistent -- Festinger's Concept of Cognitive Dissonance -- "No Way" Examples, Continued -- Chapter 7 Majority Influence -- The Asch Conformity Experiments -- The Need for Identity -- A Double-Edged Sword -- Doing the Impossible? No Way! -- Chapter 8 Connections That Close the Mind -- Small Worlds -- Vertical Communication -- Finding the Balance -- Chapter 9 Personal Book on Shared Reality -- How Real Is Real -- Social Identity Theory.. - Personal Book on Shared Reality -- Cognitive Bias -- From Un-possibilitivity to Possibilitivity -- Part III Opening the Mind -- Chapter 10 They Did It! -- The Best Education in the Poorest Areas -- Please Take Care of Your Personal Issues During Work Time! -- Autistic Woman Pioneers Humane Solution to Handling Livestock -- Chapter 11 Brain Plasticity -- Pathways for the Brain to Rewire Itself -- Synaptic Brain Plasticity -- Neurogenesis Brain Plasticity -- Brain Plasticity and Possibilitivity -- Chapter 12 Creativity Opens Closed Doors -- Are All People Creative? -- Connecting Distant and Unexpected Concepts -- The Joy of Creativity and the Creativity of Joy -- Happy Neuro-connectors -- The Whole Brain -- Creativity Fosters Wonder-Making -- Chapter 13 Complexity, Inconsistent Thinking, and Paradoxes -- Chaos May Help -- The Black Swan Metaphor -- Creative Contradictions -- Insightful Role of Paradoxes -- Inconsistencies Pave the Way for Working Wonders -- Chapter 14 Minority Influence -- Humanistic Psychiatry: From a Minority Group to Majority Transformation -- Bubbles of New in the Sea of Old -- Casting Doubts -- Consistency or Flexibility? -- Creative Minority and Possibilitivity -- Chapter 15 Networks That Boost Creativity -- Accidental Encounters -- Horizontal and Diagonal Communication and Informal Networks -- New Architecture: Tearing Down the Walls Between Disciplines -- The Power of Weak Connections -- Ambience: Opening the Mind for the Impossible -- Chapter 16 Sync Your Mind with Others -- The Mystery of Sync -- Human Sync -- Sync Coordinates -- Sync Makes It Possible -- Chapter 17 Opening the Mind -- Striking the Balance -- Launching a Business out of the Hospital -- Summary -- Part IV Do-It-Yourself Tips -- Chapter 18 Precondition One -- Social Capital -- Rocky Flats Challenge -- Empowering Leadership -- Unbiased Choice: Doable or Undoable.. - Summary and Tips -- Chapter 19 Forest for the Trees -- Mary's Family -- The More Distant the More Abstract -- Haiku for Business -- Distance Augments Creativity -- Summary and Tips -- Chapter 20 The Opening Value of Allegories, Metaphors, and Paradoxes -- Storytelling -- Baker-Baker Paradox -- Metaphors Used in Business -- Paradoxes in Psychotherapy -- Paradoxes in Operation -- Summary and Tips -- Chapter 21 Games and Simulations -- Simulation Games Online -- Real-Life Role Playing in Business -- Problem Solving -- Family Role Playing -- Role Playing: Expanding Possibilitivity -- Summary and Tips -- Chapter 22 Joy and Dancing -- The Power of Joy -- Joy at Work -- Dance to Innovate -- Business as Dancing -- Dancing Keeps You Healthy -- Dance for Empathy -- Possibilitivity -- Summary and Tips -- Chapter 23 A Flexible Body Opens the Mind -- The Significance of Proprioception -- Feldenkrais' Discoveries -- Alexander Technique -- Brain Plasticity Through Body Movements and Possibilitivity -- Summary and Tips -- Chapter 24 Imagination as a Key to the Impossible -- The Tedious Family -- Revival of the Wall Clocks -- Imagination for Personal and Family Development -- Summary and Tips -- Chapter 25 Summary -- It Is Trainable -- War Victims: A Seemingly Insurmountable Problem -- Amputee Turns Victims into Leaders -- Rats Against Landmines -- Summary and Tips -- Précis -- The Lady Who Did Not Behave Properly -- Changing the Inner-City from Within -- The Girl Who Stood up Against Her Tribe -- "He Who Sows Utopia Will Reap Reality" -- Making the Impossible Happen -- Appendix: Measuring Possibilitivity -- Introduction -- Abstract -- First Step: Identifying Stories -- Second Step: Constructing the Questionnaire -- Third Step: Validation -- Fourth Step: Using the P- level Questionnaire for Research -- References -- Index.. - The difference between what's possible and what's not is a construct of the human mind, a matter of perspective, and it's one that can be changed. Working Wonders explains the fundamentals that shape the mind: how it builds walls to protect itself and how a person can tear those walls down to tackle challenges that would have previously been discounted as unrealistic. This volume shares case studies featuring people making the impossible a reality and, in doing so, changing the world for the better. On a deeper level and yet still using non-technical language, the book identifies possible neurological and psychosocial mechanisms that limit the brain, and techniques that may open it up to exploring the seemingly unachievable. Praszkier also introduces the concept of 'possibilitivity', a personality trait that reflects the propensity to perceive insurmountable challenges as doable, and concludes by presenting a portfolio of 'Do It Yourself' techniques.
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| ISBN | 1-108-55314-1
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