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WHAT ARE THEY SAYING?
This is our title for longer
book summaries,
not all of which will be for sale.
The summaries here will be "non-critical,"
allowing you to quickly get important ideas without wading through
long arguments. You will need to test ideas for yourself without
opinions blocking your own thinking. Brouse through our favourite
titles.
HOW DO WE
KNOW?
Our five senses tell us, most of what's
happening and social training helps us, feel content with choices.
Yet, lately people are paying more
attention to their "inner voice."
This seems different the from conscience we learn from parents and
teachers. Meditation seems the favourite way to listen for the inner
voice and we recently discovered a game which promises to enhance
this. Currently we are investigating this game:
THE POWER OF OPTIMISM
This important book is sadly out of print but author Alan Loy McGinnis
had to go beyond psychology! He found a dozen traits in biographies
of famous people.
Regaining Optimism may prove to be one
of the most important ideas developed in the last couple decades,
so we have devoted a page to check yourself in this regard.
Here are 12 Traits of Optimists taken from McGinnis
1.Optimists are seldom surprised by trouble 2.Optimists look for
partial solutions.
3.Optimists believe they have control over their future.
4.Optimists allow time for regular renewal 5.Optimists interrupt
their negative trains of thought.
6.Optimists raise their power of appreciation. 7.Optimists use their
imagination to rehearse success.
8.Optimists are cheerful, even when they can't be happy.
9. Optimists think they have great capacity for stretching
10.Optimists build lots of love into their lives 11.Optimists like
to swap good news 12.Optimists practice accepting what cannot be
changed
The Eco Principle by
Arthur Lyon Dahl, blends Ecology & Economics. The Author points
out that both words came from "Ecos" meaning house.
He notices more and more people are displaced from the work force,
because the 20th Century economic question is: "how can
we maximize the efficiency of material wealth creation with minimum
human and capital inputs?"
Dahl also points out we have an inherent need to be of service and
21st Century economics ought to ask: "how can can we maximize
the total wealth produced for the whole society making the best
use of ALL available human productive potential?" He
concludes: "Unemployment would be like throwing money away."
& "Automatic retirement would be a waste of resources."
Funky
Business
This book is reviewed on
its own page. The dust cover starts: "The corporate world has
to be a more interesting place to be. A place where people can be
creative risk-taking entrepreneurs; a place where talent wants to
live. A place where ideas happen and exciting products happen faster.
And then change does too!
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