[Neurons] BRAND NEW BOOK from NSP --- THINKING FOR HUMANS -- A Truly Revolutionary Book!

Sat Jan 27 15:07:48 EST 2024

This is a truly Revolutionary Book!

·       If you want to learn to truly and deeply think and get beyond and
behind the surface of things --- this is it!

Announcing--- the Arrival of the Latest Book from Neuro-Semantics
Publications.   ** For ordering a copy--- see the end of this post.**

PREFACE

"Thinking is very hard work.  

And management fashions are a wonderful substitute for thinking."

Tom Davenport

"Peter F. Drucker, CIO Magazine, 1997

I

have written Thinking For Humans because of what I believe about thinking
and about its incredibly extensive effects within the human experience.
Here's what I believe: 

           The quality of your life is the quality of your thinking.

           To be "fully alive/fully human" requires the ability to truly
and authentically think and think for yourself.

           Thinking lies at the core of everything that we do that's human.

           As you think, so you are and so you are becoming.  Your thinking
defines you and shapes your inner self and "personality."

           The quality of your beliefs, decisions, emotions, memories,
knowledge, imaginations, etc. depends on the quality of your thinking.

           To manage your thinking requires that you think about your
thinking, to use your meta-cognition to meta-think.

           Meta-thinking enables a special kind of learning- meta-learning
by which you can then manage the quality of your thinking.

An Untaught Essential

While thinking is the most fundamental thing you do, the great majority of
people have never been taught how to truly think.  That's because at school
we are taught what to think; we are not taught how to think.  Thinking was,
and continues to be, assumed and taken for granted.  It should not.
Consequently, the great majority of people are poor thinkers.  Their
thinking is superficial and is easily dominated and distorted by emotions.
As the quality of their thinking is low, this causes most of their problems
in life. Shockingly, we mostly think our way into difficulties as we fail to
discern quality information, make bad decisions, engage in stupid actions,
create disastrous relationships, etc.  All of that sabotages one's best
efforts.  The good news is that you can think your way out of those problems
by learning the genuine article-critical and precise thinking.

"... the problem is that we think very poorly.  How could it be otherwise
when few of us are given any instruction..." Steven Alan, Thinking
Creatically (1991, p. ix)

If thinking governs the way you learn, the way you comprehend the world, the
way you make decisions, the way you relate to others, the way you manage
yourself, the way you treat yourself and others, no wonder thinking plays
the most critical role in your successes and failures.  Yet most people
dismiss thinking as unimportant.  They assume that "thinking is thinking"
and "what else could it be?"  They don't know that a person's brain could be
active without the person actually thinking.  They don't know there are
multiple kinds of non-thinking.  In each, a person may seem to be thinking,
and he may think that he's thinking, but he is not actually "thinking"
(chapter 21).

Thinking Assumptions

Because of the very nature of true thinking, there are numerous assumptions
and myths that we commonly hold about thinking.  There are also things about
thinking which no one has ever told you.  There are things that are
important-critically important.  And someone needs to tell you!  When I
discovered them, I began communicating them as widely and as often as I
could.  These things make the difference between clarity and confusion,
success and failure, joy and depression, optimism and pessimism.  If you
don't know these things about the most fundamental human response, you will
hardly know what is the essence of being human.  Thinking is that important!

The founder of IBM, Thomas Watson Sr. used the mantra "Think" in his 1914
brand.  A century later, Steve Jobs used "Think different" as his brand for
Apple.  Why this emphasis by these leading CEOs in business?  Because there
is a deficiency of real thinking!  Joey Reiman put it this way:

"Thinking is not a core competency in business.  Daydreaming is frowned
upon, and fast solutions are rewarded.  As a result, the workplace is often
the last place you'll find real live thinkers." (Purpose, 2013, p. 151)

The Book's Design

Thinking For Humans focuses centrally on the most fundamental thing you
do-think.  I'll therefore begin in Part I with the most fundamental aspects
of what thinking is and provide a series of chapters on those most essential
thinking skills.  Does that mean thinking is a skill?  Yes, and you would do
well to think about thinking as a skill-a mental activity that gives you a
lease on life.  Parts II and III covers the constructive or eureka thinking
skills and the executive thinking skills.

Part IV focuses on the seven kinds of deceptive non-thinking aspects-
aspects which we all default to, and which lie at the heart of most of our
problems.  When you know these, and can shift to real thinking, you will be
able to solve most of the problems that you will ever face.  By learning the
14 thinking skills, your intelligence will increase and you will become an
excellent problem solver.  That's because "intelligence" is not a trait, it
is a function of thinking-how a person thinks, your range of flexibility.  

Throughout this book, there is a central theme: The quality of your thinking
determines the quality of your mental and emotional well-being.  A central
component of mental and emotional illness is poor thinking-distorted
thinking, and thinking that is not under your control.  When you correct
your thinking-you set in motion a healthy way of moving through the world
that makes you more effective and productive, that makes the way you relate
to family and friends more rewarding and loving, and the life you live more
joyful.

"The neurotic is not emotionally sick- he is cognitively wrong!  If health
and neurosis are, respectively, correct and incorrect perceptions of
reality, propositions of fact and propositions of value merge in this
area..." (Maslow, 1970, p. 153)

On the surface, thinking seems so natural that it may seem silly to spend
time learning how to think!  On second thought, however, if you listen to
how some people talk, you know they are not actually thinking, or if they
are, they are thinking so poorly that it is creating even more problems for
them.  You might wonder, "Have they not been taught how to think accurately
and sanely?"  The truth is that thinking is your secret weapon for
succeeding in every aspect of life.  It is the secret for sanity and
well-being, for healthy relationships and productive careers.

In the field of Personal Constructs, Don Bannister (1971) argued that
instead of thinking about people in terms of static and immutable
characteristics instead of as a "person in motion."  Therefore we "should be
investigating the process of thinking itself. That's what I have designed
this book to do-to study and understand thinking as a process, a function,
and as a skill.

"Intelligence has been regarded as a trait; we have studied such static and
allegedly immutable characteristics when we should have been investigating
the process of 'thinking', of solving problems, of construing." (D.
Bannister, 1971, p. 63)

Preparation for - Thinking for Humans

I wish I had written Thinking For Humans first.  But I could not have done
that.  I first needed to immerse myself in the fields of Critical Thinking,
Learning, Creative Thinking, Decision Making, Wisdom, etc.  I also need to
begin teaching and training people in the art of thinking which I did in the
Neuro-Semantic "Brain Camps." Further, I had to learn how to facilitate real
thinking without overwhelming people (which I did when I began).  In
preparation for writing this book I first wrote the thinking series:

           Executive Thinking (2018)

           Executive Deciding (2022)

           Executive Wisdom (2022)

           Executive Learning (2019)

           Hypnotic Thinking (2020)

           Humorous Thinking (2021)

           Metaphorical Thinking (2022)

           Predictive Thinking (2022)

           Thinking as a Modeler (2018)

Thinking for Humans: The Art of Mindful Awareness

This subtitle goes to my wife, Geraldine.  One day when we were at Starbucks
for our reading time, as she was reading the manuscript, she commented, "You
know, what you are writing is actually the science of mindfulness.  While
mindfulness is about being aware, it is more literally,  mind-full about how
to think."

Thinking For Humans is an invitation to discover the true magic of
thinking-real thinking, thinking that is authentic, accurate,
self-correcting, and precise.  As you do, you will become increasingly more
able to deal with life, people, and reality as they truly are, rather than
how you wish it to be.  Then, as a critical thinker, you will see through
illusions, deceptions, and the cover-ups all around you.  As a real thinker,
you will be able to use your knowledge more effectively, solve problems more
productively, and live more adventuresomely.  In anticipation that you will
become a force to be reckoned with, welcome to the thinking adventure.

Table of Contents:

Thinking For Humans

Preface
4

Introduction to Thinking
8

1. Why Think about Thinking?
9

2. An Overview of Thinking
16

3.  How Thinking Develops
25

4. What is Thinking?
31

5. Emotions for Thinking
39

Part I: Essential Thinking
45

6. Considering
47

7. Questioning
58

8. Doubting
67

9. Detailing
77

10. Distinguishing
86

Part II: Constructive Thinking
96

11. Inferential Thinking
97

12. Organizational Thinking
105

13. Creative Thinking
114

14. Synergistic Thinking
123

Part III: Executive Thinking

131

15. Learning
135

16. Deciding
146

17. Discerning
157

18. Reflexivity
164

19. Sacrilizing
174

20. Modeling Thinking
183

Part V: When Thinking 

             Goes Wrong
192

21. Non-Thinking
193

22. Hellish Thinking
206

VI.  Thinking Solutions
214

23. Unlearning
215

24. Correcting Semantic Reactivity
221

25. Thinking and 

               the Meta Place
228

26. Thinking for a Living
236

Appendices:
243

A: The Meta-Model
243

B: What is Critical Thinking
245

C: Cognitive Distortions
247

C: Cognitive Biases
248

D: Cognitive Fallacies
249

Bibliography
250

Author
253

Neuro-Semantics
256

HOW DO I ORDER A COPY??

·       The book retails at  $25 plus shipping.

·       For the current special --- and before we put it on the website, it
is $20   (a 20% discount).

·       And no it will not be on The Shop until much later.

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L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

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738 Beaver Lodge

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