What would it feel like to experience the world again like a child--deeply engaged with our senses and filled with wonder and creativity? Original Mind takes us on an odyssey back to our "beginner's mind," and into our many undeveloped potentials. Through fascinating research, insights, stories, and engaging practices largely overlooked by other "brain science" books, neuroscience and learning pioneer Dee Joy Coulter challenges us to question the conventional definitions and limitations of our minds, and then to move ...
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What would it feel like to experience the world again like a child--deeply engaged with our senses and filled with wonder and creativity? Original Mind takes us on an odyssey back to our "beginner's mind," and into our many undeveloped potentials. Through fascinating research, insights, stories, and engaging practices largely overlooked by other "brain science" books, neuroscience and learning pioneer Dee Joy Coulter challenges us to question the conventional definitions and limitations of our minds, and then to move beyond them. This delight-driven odyssey explores a vast landscape of untapped dimensions of consciousness, including: How to see again with the fresh wonder of an infant Calming, Enriching, Magnetizing, and Self-Regulating--four keys to character development and emotional resilience How reading profoundly changes our brains, and how to develop the remarkable capacities of the "pre-literate" mind Engaging the body to enrich the art of thinking Boredom, Complexity, Ambiguity, Permeability, and Novelty--five "tolerances" to liberate creativity and joy Protecting--and expanding--our cognitive faculties as we age Blending newfound intuitive skills and "school-learned" abilities to navigate the complex demands of the modern world, and much more
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This item is in overall good condition. Covers and dust jackets are intact but may have minor wear including slight curls or bends to corners as well as cosmetic blemishes including stickers. Pages are intact but may have minor highlighting/ writing. Binding is intact; however, spine may have slight wear overall. Digital codes may not be included and have not been tested to be redeemable and/or active. Minor shelf wear overall. Please note that all items are donated goods and are in used condition. Orders shipped Monday through Friday! Your purchase helps put people to work and learn life skills to reach their full potential. Orders shipped Monday through Friday. Your purchase helps put people to work and learn life skills to reach their full potential. Thank you!
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Very Good. No Dj. Book Octavo, hardcover, VG in white boards with blue lettering on spine. Clean and unmarked. No dj. 252 pp. plus notes on author. What would it feel like to experience the world again like a child, deeply engaged with our senses and filled with wonder and creativity? Reclaim your earlier mind, stepping stones to character, lessons from other cultures, in search of wisdom and more.