"Merloyd Lawrence book." Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-156) and index.
Contents:
About the author. Introduction -- 7. When practice makes imperfect -- Overlearned skills -- Whose basics? -- The value of doubt -- Sideways learning -- Can a text teach mindfully? -- 2. Creative distraction -- The puzzle of "attention" -- Enhancing novelty -- Soft vigilance -- Rethinking attention deficit hyperactivity disorder -- 3. The myth of delayed gratification -- All works and no play -- Turning play into work -- Turning work in to play -- 4. 1066 what? or The hazards of rote memory -- Locking up information -- Keeping information available -- Drawing distinctions -- 5. A new look at forgetting -- Staying in the present -- The dangers of mindless memory -- Absentminded versus other minded? -- Does memory decline? -- Alternative views of memory and aging -- 6. Mindfulness and intelligence -- Nineteenth-century theories of intelligence -- The notion of optimum fit -- An alternative ability -- Linear versus mindful problem solving -- 7. The illusion of right answers -- Hobbled by outcomes -- Actor/observer and other perspectives -- Uncertainty and creative thought -- When right becomes wrong -- Mindfulness and self-definition -- Learning as re-imagining the world -- Notes -- Index -- About the author.
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