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Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Author's Note; Introduction; Part One: The Essential Foundations; Chapter 1: Misunderstanding: The Hidden Trap; The hidden hamster wheel; An essential question; Chapter 2: The Power of Insight; Reading for information; Reading for insight; Chapter 3: How Perception is Created; The Gherkin and the bell curve; Chapter 4: The Power of Principles; The principles of flight; The factory settings; Expectation management; Context-sensitive; Chapter 5: The Psychological Immune System; The brilliance of the body; The tip of the iceberg; Fearful thinking. The trick is not minding that it hurtsRumble strips; Chapter 6: Habitual Thought Patterns; What the thinker thinks, the prover proves; The river still flows; Chapter 7: Stress: The Source and the Solution; The source of stress; The light's better here; The solution to stress; Chapter 8: The Ultimate Leverage Point; Hallucinations; Level 1
Material reality; Level 2
The content of thinking (i.e. what you're thinking about); Level 3
The structure of thinking; Level 4
The nature of THOUGHT; Part Two: The Deep Drivers; Chapter 9: Innate Clarity and Peace of Mind. Your understanding of how life worksYou have innate clarity and peace of mind; Chapter 10: Creativity and Disruptive Innovation; Disruptive innovation; The gap; Chapter 11: Authenticity: Your True Identity; Chapter 12: Intuition: Navigating by Wisdom; Chapter 13: Toxic Goals and Authentic Desires; The security blanket; A tale of two automobiles; Authentic desires; Chapter 14: The Power of Presence; Being present; Digging, sanding and sweeping; Clear mind, more time; Chapter 15: Resilience; Sleepwalking; Life is not a problem to be solved; Chapter 16: Connection and Relationships. Listening to be impactedThe London Olympics; Two worlds in one; Part Three: The Way Forward; Chapter 17: There's Only One Problem; Chapter 18: Penicillin for the Mind; The infinite elevator; Penicillin for the mind; Chapter 19: Do Nothing; 1. What's the "right" direction, and how do you know when you're pointed in that direction?; 2. If you're "doing nothing," how does anything ever get done?; 3. How is this helpful?; Chapter 20: The Leadership Delusion; An innate capacity for leadership; If only I knew how ... ; Beating the bell curve; Chapter 21: Living a Life You Love; A practical example. The power of principles revisitedChapter 22: Capitalizing on Chaos, Complexity and Uncertainty; The current wave-shift; Early signs of the 4th wave; Understanding the nature of THOUGHT; The experience economy; The critical 4th-wave factor; Chapter 23: The Art of Sustainable Change; Separate realities; The network effect; Chapter 24: Inspired Action; List of Distinctions; Acknowledgments; Innate Thinking®; Professional development programmes; Corporate programmes; Jamie Smart(J); Index