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Book Future Minded

    Book Details:
  • Author : Magda Osman
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2014-03-11
  • ISBN : 1350312193
  • Pages : 185 pages

Download or read book Future Minded written by Magda Osman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What drives us to make decisions? Future-Minded explores the psychological processes of agency and control. If you've ever wondered why we think of coincidences as matters of fate rather than the result of the laws of probability, this book provides the answer. From memory and reasoning to our experiences of causality and consciousness, it unpicks the mechanisms we use on a daily basis to help us predict, plan for and attempt to control the future. Future-Minded - Features a wealth of real world examples to help you engage with this fast-developing area. - Provides clear analysis of psychological experiments and their findings to explain the evidence behind the theory. Thought-provoking and highly topical, Future-Minded is fascinating reading for psychology students studying cognition or consciousness, and for anyone interested in understanding how we try to determine the future.

Book Homo Prospectus

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  • Author : Martin E. P. Seligman
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2016-06-14
  • ISBN : 019937449X
  • Pages : 401 pages

Download or read book Homo Prospectus written by Martin E. P. Seligman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our species is misnamed. Though sapiens defines human beings as "wise" what humans do especially well is to prospect the future. We are homo prospectus. In this book, Martin E. P. Seligman, Peter Railton, Roy F. Baumeister, and Chandra Sripada argue it is anticipating and evaluating future possibilities for the guidance of thought and action that is the cornerstone of human success. Much of the history of psychology has been dominated by a framework in which people's behavior is driven by past history (memory) and present circumstances (perception and motivation). Homo Prospectus reassesses this idea, pushing focus to the future front and center and opening discussion of a new field of Psychology and Neuroscience. The authors delve into four modes in which prospection operates: the implicit mind, deliberate thought, mind-wandering, and collective (social) imagination. They then explore prospection's role in some of life's most enduring questions: Why do people think about the future? Do we have free will? What is the nature of intuition, and how might it function in ethics? How does emotion function in human psychology? Is there a common causal process in different psychopathologies? Does our creativity change with age? In this remarkable convergence of research in philosophy, statistics, decision theory, psychology, and neuroscience, Homo Prospectus shows how human prospection fundamentally reshapes our understanding of key cognitive processes, thereby improving individual and social functioning. It aims to galvanize interest in this new science from scholars in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy, as well as an educated public curious about what makes humanity what it is.

Book Future Shock

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  • Author : Alvin Toffler
  • Publisher : Bantam
  • Release : 2022-01-11
  • ISBN : 0593159764
  • Pages : 624 pages

Download or read book Future Shock written by Alvin Toffler and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The classic work that predicted the anxieties of a world upended by rapidly emerging technologies—and now provides a road map to solving many of our most pressing crises. “Explosive . . . brilliantly formulated.” —The Wall Street Journal Future Shock is the classic that changed our view of tomorrow. Its startling insights into accelerating change led a president to ask his advisers for a special report, inspired composers to write symphonies and rock music, gave a powerful new concept to social science, and added a phrase to our language. Published in over fifty countries, Future Shock is the most important study of change and adaptation in our time. In many ways, Future Shock is about the present. It is about what is happening today to people and groups who are overwhelmed by change. Change affects our products, communities, organizations—even our patterns of friendship and love. But Future Shock also illuminates the world of tomorrow by exploding countless clichés about today. It vividly describes the emerging global civilization: the rise of new businesses, subcultures, lifestyles, and human relationships—all of them temporary. Future Shock will intrigue, provoke, frighten, encourage, and, above all, change everyone who reads it.

Book Future Minds

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  • Author : Richard Watson
  • Publisher : Hachette UK
  • Release : 2010-11-26
  • ISBN : 1857884582
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book Future Minds written by Richard Watson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-11-26 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is for anyone who’s curious about rethinking their thinking or unleashing the extraordinary potential of the human mind.

Book College and the Future

Download or read book College and the Future written by Richard Ashley Rice and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Forum and Column Review

Download or read book Forum and Column Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Homo Prospectus

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  • Author : Martin E. P. Seligman
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2016-06-07
  • ISBN : 0199374481
  • Pages : 401 pages

Download or read book Homo Prospectus written by Martin E. P. Seligman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our species is misnamed. Though sapiens defines human beings as "wise" what humans do especially well is to prospect the future. We are homo prospectus. In this book, Martin E. P. Seligman, Peter Railton, Roy F. Baumeister, and Chandra Sripada argue it is anticipating and evaluating future possibilities for the guidance of thought and action that is the cornerstone of human success. Much of the history of psychology has been dominated by a framework in which people's behavior is driven by past history (memory) and present circumstances (perception and motivation). Homo Prospectus reassesses this idea, pushing focus to the future front and center and opening discussion of a new field of Psychology and Neuroscience. The authors delve into four modes in which prospection operates: the implicit mind, deliberate thought, mind-wandering, and collective (social) imagination. They then explore prospection's role in some of life's most enduring questions: Why do people think about the future? Do we have free will? What is the nature of intuition, and how might it function in ethics? How does emotion function in human psychology? Is there a common causal process in different psychopathologies? Does our creativity change with age? In this remarkable convergence of research in philosophy, statistics, decision theory, psychology, and neuroscience, Homo Prospectus shows how human prospection fundamentally reshapes our understanding of key cognitive processes, thereby improving individual and social functioning. It aims to galvanize interest in this new science from scholars in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy, as well as an educated public curious about what makes humanity what it is.

Book Future Matters

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  • Author : Barbara Adam
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2007-09-30
  • ISBN : 9047422597
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book Future Matters written by Barbara Adam and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-09-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Future Matters concerns contemporary approaches to the future – how the future is known, created and minded. In a social world whose pace continues to accelerate the future becomes an increasingly difficult terrain. While the focus of social life is narrowing down to the present, the futures we create on a daily basis cast ever longer shadows. Future Matters addresses this paradox and its deep ethical implications. It locates contemporary approaches to the future in a wider sociological and historical framework of practices, traces differences and continuities, and shows how contemporary practices of futures-construction make taking responsibility for futures all but impossible.

Book The Nature of Future

Download or read book The Nature of Future written by Leslie Haden Baron Haden-Guest and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Greats of Sci Fi  H  G Wells Edition

Download or read book The Greats of Sci Fi H G Wells Edition written by Jules Verne and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-26 with total page 10716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat presents to you this unique SF collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. H. G. Wells: The Time Machine The War of the Worlds The Island of Doctor Moreau The Invisible Man... Jules Verne: Journey to the Center of the Earth 20.000 Leagues under the Sea The Mysterious Island... Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Last Man Edgar Wallace: Planetoid 127 The Green Rust... Otis Adelbert Kline: The Venus Trilogy The Mars Series Malcolm Jameson: Captain Bullard Series Garrett P. Serviss: Edison's Conquest of Mars A Columbus of Space The Sky Pirate... Arthur Conan Doyle: The Professor Challenger Series Francis Bacon: New Atlantis Edwin A. Abbott: Flatland Jack London: Iron Heel The Scarlet Plague The Star Rover... Robert Louis Stevenson: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde George MacDonald: Lilith H. Rider Haggard: King Solomon's Mines She William H. Hodgson: The House on the Borderland The Night Land... Edgar Allan Poe: Some Words with a Mummy Mellonta Tauta... H. P. Lovecraft: Beyond the Wall of Sleep The Cats of Ulthar Celephaïs Edward Bellamy: Looking Backward: 2000–1887 Equality... Mark Twain: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Owen Gregory: Meccania the Super-State Margaret Cavendish: The Blazing World Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels William Morris: News from Nowhere Samuel Butler: Erewhon Edward Bulwer-Lytton: The Coming Race James Fenimore Cooper: The Monikins Hugh Benson: Lord of the World Fred M. White: The Doom of London Ernest Bramah: The Secret of the League Arthur D. Vinton: Looking Further Backward Robert Cromie: The Crack of Doom Anthony Trollope: The Fixed Period Cleveland Moffett: Richard Jefferies: After London Francis Stevens: The Heads of Cerberus Percy Greg: Across the Zodiac David Lindsay: A Voyage to Arcturus Stanley G. Weinbaum: Stories from the Solar System Abraham Merritt: The Moon Pool The Metal Monster... Hyne: The Lost Continent

Book Bulletin

    Book Details:
  • Author : North Carolina. State Department of Archives and History
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1910
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 522 pages

Download or read book Bulletin written by North Carolina. State Department of Archives and History and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Publications

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  • Author : North Carolina. State Department of Archives and History
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1907
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1010 pages

Download or read book Publications written by North Carolina. State Department of Archives and History and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book HR in VUCA World

    Book Details:
  • Author : KS Praveen
  • Publisher : Notion Press
  • Release : 2018-12-26
  • ISBN : 1684662257
  • Pages : 150 pages

Download or read book HR in VUCA World written by KS Praveen and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2018-12-26 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.” – Ralph W. Emerson Michael Phelps, one of the most decorated Olympians of all time (28 gold medals in swimming), has beaten champions from different countries and comenumerouno with his immense talent and swift swimming. Now, imagine Phelps swimming in a sea and confronting a whale on one side, a shark on the other, and a crocodile farther ahead. It is also raining heavily. Phelps has to avoid the whale, shark and crocodile to reach ashore. To escape them, he has to think, act and swim fast. Somehow, he marshals all his energy and makes a great escape! Incredible yet very much plausible. This is what one confronts in the VUCA World. The HR needs to act quickly to stave off disaster and move ahead swiftly and skillfully. For that, it should be able to adapt, maneuver and stay afloat. HR in the VUCA World is a comprehensive guide for HR to succeed in the VUCA World, with strategies and tips from experts in diverse fields. Right from portraying HR in the VUCA World to capturing emerging trends in the VUCA World, this insightful book provides you all that you need to know about Human Resources in the VUCA World and ways to excel in it.

Book Shepherds in the Image of Christ

Download or read book Shepherds in the Image of Christ written by Mary Diane Langford CDP and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bishop John Shaw was importing priests from Europe when he discerned the need for a seminary for the Diocese of San Antonio, TX. A locally-formed clergy was key to the support of the Catholic faith in the young diocese. Relying on five diocesan priests as faculty, Shaw dedicated St. Johns Seminary in 1915. A frontier, make-do attitude energized the first faculty as they taught and guided the seminarys first class who lived and studied in what had been the bishops residence. In its first century, St. Johns Assumption Seminary has trained nearly 800 priests for service in arch/dioceses across the US and foreign lands. With the guidance of arch/diocesan priests in the first 25 years, the Congregation of the Missions (Vincentians) in the second 25 years, and again directed by archdiocesan priests and a diverse faculty in the last 50 years, St. Johns Assumption has both struggled and thrived. Collaborating with Oblate School of Theology, St. Johns Assumption nationally-known for its pioneering bilingual-bicultural programs, stands on solid ground as it begins its second century. Shepherds in the Image of Christ chronicles 100 years of molding men and boys into priests for the Roman Catholic Church of Texas and beyond.

Book War  Peace  and the Future

Download or read book War Peace and the Future written by Ellen Key and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Future Minded

    Book Details:
  • Author : Zaimah Khan
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-07-27
  • ISBN : 9781641379939
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book Future Minded written by Zaimah Khan and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you prepare kids for jobs that don't yet exist? Kids learning in a system created for a bygone world? Especially when they're learning in a system designed for a different world. Future Minded: Preparing Today's Youth for Tomorrow's Workplace delves deep into how students are being educated in a system created more than 100 years ago; a system that could not anticipate current or future jobs. The book emphasizes the intersection of education, workforce and preparedness for the fourth industrial revolution. Author Zaimah Khan asks readers: Have you ever thought about what kind of new jobs the future will hold? Do you want your kids to be ready for the future of work? Do you wonder what skills your kids will need to be successful in the Fourth Industrial Revolution? You will love Future Minded if you are thinking about what jobs will be like in the future. Whether your children will be ready for future jobs? Or, what skills kids should develop to be successful in the future? Regardless of how young your children or students are, this book will show you how you can support them in the development of soft skills that are transferable across industries.

Book Leaders Make the Future

Download or read book Leaders Make the Future written by Bob Johansen and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are in a time of accelerating disruptive change. In a VUCA world - one characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity - traditional leadership skills won't be enough, noted futurist Bob Johansen argues. Drawing on the latest forecasts from the Institute for the Future - the first futures think tank ever to outlive its forecasts - this powerful book explores the external forces that are shaking the foundations of leadership and unveils ten critical new leadership skills. How adroit are you at dilemma flipping - turning problems that can't be solved into opportunities? Can you develop bio - empathy - the ability to learn from and apply the principles of nature in your leadership? Are you able to practice immersive learning - dive into very different - from - you physical and online worlds and learn from them? Johansen provides role models, tools, and advice to help you develop these and seven other future leadership skills. In addition, Johansen deals with two new forces that are shaping the future. The first is the ''digital natives'' - people fifteen years and younger who have grown up in a digital world. The second is cloud - based supercomputing, which will enable extraordinarily rich new forms of connection, collaboration, and commerce. In this thoroughly updated and expanded second edition, Johansen is joined by the prestigious Center for Creative Leadership. CCL's contributions help readers understand the new leadership skills by linking them to existing skills, and they provide analytics and exercises so readers can more fully develop these new skills.