|
Showing 1 - 4 of
4 matches in All Departments
Poverty and superstition go hand in hand, When you have nothing,
you cling to whatever gives you hope. Tracy King was raised in a
house of contradictions. Her home was happy and creative but it was
marked by debt, by her father's alcoholism and her mother's
agoraphobia. When her father died at the hands of a local teenage
gang on the streets of their Midlands council estate, superstition
gave way to a deeper and more dysfunctional reliance on the
born-again Christian church to which Tracy and her family belonged.
In the chaos of loss, the paranormal became paranoia. In a bid to
find definitive answers, Tracy followed one belief system after
another until, accidentally, she stumbled across a book by
scientist Carl Sagan. It opened the door to scientific thinking.
Ultimately, it taught her to think for herself. And it was only
when she applied the tools of critical thinking to this exploration
of her past that she uncovered a very different kind of story.
Learning to Think is a memoir about belief. It's about poverty,
religion and superstition, grief and healing. But most of all, it's
about the liberating power of a scientific view of the world.
Tracy King was raised in a house of contradictions. Her home was
happy and creative but also shadowed by debt and her father’s
alcoholism. When her father was killed by teenagers on the streets
of their public housing project, her family developed a deep and
dysfunctional reliance on the born-again Christian church to which
they belonged, and Tracy stopped attending school. Over the years,
in a bid to balm her grief and poverty, she journeyed through
multiple belief systems, from extreme religion to the occult and
paranormal, and eventually conspiracy theories. Amid this chaos, on
the shelves of a Birmingham bookshop, she discovered an old copy of
Carl Sagan’s The Demon-Haunted World, the book that taught her
how to, finally, think critically—and for herself. Eloquently
written and brimming with surprisingly sharp humor, Learning to
Think is a battle cry for imaginative freedom and taking charge of
one’s own education.
Competitive Advantage helps leaders create a reliably profitable
and sustainable learning portfolio that generates the sought-after
impact. Based on a proprietary 25-driver Scoreboard created by
Tracy King CAE, Competitive Advantage helps clients develop a
profitable and sustainable business that makes a measurable impact
on the industries they represent. Workforce disruptions, new
technologies, and tight budgets place enormous pressure on
professional association continuing education teams. Old learning
formats and pricing models are failing. The risk of irrelevance is
imminent as competitors step into the market, creating targeted
learning programs faster and cheaper. Not to mention that learner
expectations are changing: what they want, when they want it, and
how much they are willing to pay for it. Competitive Advantage
serves the professional association industry's leadership. Tracy
helps leadership determine what investments to make with a limited
budget, learn the common mistakes associations make managing their
learning portfolio, find key investments that differentiate a
program from competitors, identify partnership opportunities that
result in passive revenue streams, and so much more. Quick fixes
feel good, but never produce lasting results. Competitive Advantage
focuses on the things that do produce lasting results and the
commitment required to develop a successful learning design.
|
You may like...
Higher
Michael Buble
CD
(1)
R487
Discovery Miles 4 870
|