Practical intelligence: the art and science of common sense / Karl Albrecht.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 ; Mindmodules : you have many "minds" ; Mindmodels : your portable reality ; Four habits that unlock your mental capacity ; Four 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 ; Three 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 ; How language "packages" your thoughts ; Jumping to confusions : inferential thinking ; "Clean" and "dirty" language : strategies for semantic sanity ; Expressions you can remove from your vocabulary ; The self-conversation : cleaning up your internal dialog ; Snappy comebacks : the language of funny.

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