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In hardback for the first time, this tenth-anniversary edition of the game-changing #1 New York Times bestseller features a new foreword and brand-new tools to make the work your own.
For over a decade, Brené Brown has found a special place in our hearts as a gifted mapmaker and a fellow traveller. She is both a social scientist and a kitchen-table friend whom you can always count on to tell the truth, make you laugh and, on occasion, cry with you. And what's now become a movement all started with The Gifts of Imperfection, which has sold more than two million copies in thirty-five different languages across the globe.
What transforms this book from words on a page to effective daily practices are the ten guideposts to wholehearted living. The guideposts not only help us understand the practices that will allow us to change our lives and families, they also walk us through the unattainable and sabotaging expectations that get in the way.
Brené writes, "This book is an invitation to join a wholehearted revolution. A small, quiet, grassroots movement that starts with each of us saying, 'My story matters because I matter.' Revolution might sound a little dramatic, but in this world, choosing authenticity and worthiness is an absolute act of resistance."
A landmark book that reveals, celebrates, and advocates for the special minds and contributions of visual thinkers.
A quarter of a century after her memoir, Thinking in Pictures, forever changed how the world understood autism, Temple Grandin— “an anthropologist on Mars,” as Oliver Sacks dubbed her—transforms our awareness of the different ways our brains are wired. Do you have a keen sense of direction, a love of puzzles, the ability to assemble furniture without crying? You are likely a visual thinker.
With her genius for demystifying science, Grandin draws on cutting-edge research to take us inside visual thinking. Visual thinkers constitute a far greater proportion of the population than previously believed, she reveals, and a more varied one, from the photo-realistic “object visualizers” like Grandin herself, with their intuitive knack for design and problem solving, to the abstract, mathematically inclined “visual spatial” thinkers who excel in pattern recognition and systemic thinking. She also makes us understand how a world increasingly geared to the verbal tends to sideline visual thinkers, screening them out at school and passing over them in the workplace. Rather than continuing to waste their singular gifts, driving a collective loss in productivity and innovation, Grandin proposes new approaches to educating, parenting, employing, and collaborating with visual thinkers.
In a highly competitive world, this important book helps us see, we need every mind on board.
The Comfort Book is a collection of consolations learned in hard times
and suggestions for making the bad days better. Drawing on maxims,
memoir and the inspirational lives of others, these meditations offer
new ways of seeing ourselves and the world.
This is the book to pick up when you need the wisdom of a friend, the
comfort of a hug or a reminder that hope comes from unexpected places.
Many people are stuck, or think they are. They feel frozen.
Marooned. Trapped on treadmills. They say they're stuck in the
wrong relationships, the wrong careers, the wrong places at the
wrong times. They're stuck in bad habits and can't quit. They're
stuck the past and can't let go. They're stuck in the present and
can't plan for the future. And in many cases, they're looking for
someone or something to blame. How did we get here? Consumer
culture certainly has a hand in it, training us from infancy onward
to seek instant gratification via various forms of brand loyalty:
doing the same things with the same products in the same ways over
and over again. But other factors play other key roles, notably
fear of change. Stuck is a work of social commentary that delivers
a long-awaited diagnosis for our day and age. For some, there's a
light at the end of the tunnel; this book includes stories of
people who managed to become unstuck and of others who, after much
reflection, decided that they're already exactly where they're
meant to be. Chapter 1 - ONCE UPON A TIME: Stuck in the Past
Chapter 2 - SEMIAUTOMATIC: Stuck in the Present Chapter 3 - OOPS! I
DID IT AGAIN: Stuck on Habits Chapter 4 - THE HORROR, THE HORROR:
Stuck on Trauma Chapter 5 - PEOPLE WHO NEED PEOPLE: Stuck on Others
Chapter 6 - TAKE THIS JOB AND....: Stuck on Work
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