Professional Skills
Beyond Your Brain: Innovative Strategies for Clearer Thinking
Life is complicated. Both at work and in our personal lives, we face daily dilemmas requiring complex, critical thought. We sit at our desks and wrack our brains for insight. “Think harder,” we tell ourselves. “Use your head. Focus.” But renowned science writer Annie Murphy Paul argues for another, more inventive solut...
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About this course
Life is complicated. Both at work and in our personal lives, we face daily dilemmas requiring complex, critical thought. We sit at our desks and wrack our brains for insight. “Think harder,” we tell ourselves. “Use your head. Focus.” But renowned science writer Annie Murphy Paul argues for another, more inventive solution: thinking outside our heads. In her book The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain, she shares how a host of extra-neural resources can help us focus more effectively, comprehend more deeply, and create more imaginatively.
Course outline
12 topics · 95 min
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Use Your Head
- 3 Listen to Your Body
- 4 The Power of Affect Labeling
- 5 Thinking With Movement
- 6 In Defense of Gestures
- 7 The Nature of Thought
- 8 The Privacy Principle
- 9 The Super-Powered Social Brain
- 10 Four Principles to Creating “Groupiness”
- 11 Conclusion
- 12 Quiz
Beyond Your Brain: Innovative Strategies for Clearer Thinking
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