The Thinking Life: How to Thrive in the Age of Distraction
Sep 2011 · Macmillan + ORM
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How do we turn off the noise of daily life, turn on our brains, and begin to engage in that fundamental human activity known as thinking again? P.M. Forni, America's civility expert has given some thought to how we can successfully think our way through a greatly distracting world and live a better life.
In The Thinking Life, he looks at the importance of thinking: how we do it, why we don't do it enough and why we need to do more of it. In twelve short chapters, he gives readers a remedy for the Age of Distraction, an age fuelled by social networking overload, compulsive texting and an omnipresent stream of cellphone calls. He shows how to put aside time each day to improve:
- Attention
- Introspection
- Self-control
- Positive thinking
- Proactive thinking
- Decision making
- Creative thinking
- Problem solving
Just as Forni did with civility, he puts the importance of good thinking front and center in a book as lucid and profound as his earlier works.
"The most provocative and useful book I've read in years." -Robert Sutton, New York Times bestselling author of The No Asshole Rule
In The Thinking Life, he looks at the importance of thinking: how we do it, why we don't do it enough and why we need to do more of it. In twelve short chapters, he gives readers a remedy for the Age of Distraction, an age fuelled by social networking overload, compulsive texting and an omnipresent stream of cellphone calls. He shows how to put aside time each day to improve:
- Attention
- Introspection
- Self-control
- Positive thinking
- Proactive thinking
- Decision making
- Creative thinking
- Problem solving
Just as Forni did with civility, he puts the importance of good thinking front and center in a book as lucid and profound as his earlier works.
"The most provocative and useful book I've read in years." -Robert Sutton, New York Times bestselling author of The No Asshole Rule
How do we turn off the noise of daily life, turn on our brains, and begin to engage in that fundamental human activity known as thinking again? P.M. Forni, America's civility expert has given some thought to how we can successfully think our way through a greatly distracting world and live a bett...
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The insights and ideas presented in this book are not obvious. Rather they are the essence of what it takes to have a happy life in this hectic world, distilled into actions that make sense to everyone. More than just "things you can do," written in this book are ideas on "the ways that you can look at things differently". Nobody is going to change the world to work for them as much as they are going to learn how to adapt to the world around them. This book takes care of that idea nicely and elegantly. Overall a great book on the subject of coping with life and finding happiness.
About the author
Dr. P.M. Forni (1951-2018) was an award-winning professor of Italian Literature at Johns Hopkins University. In 2000 he founded The Civility Initiative at Johns Hopkins and taught courses on the theory and history of manners. He is the author of Choosing Civility: The Twenty-five Rules of Considerate Conduct (2002) and The Civility Solution: What to Do When People Are Rude (2008). Reports on his work have appeared on The New York Times, The Times of London, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Los Angeles Times. He has been a on a number of radio and television shows, including ABC's World News Tonight, CBS Sunday Morning and BBC's Outlook. He lived in Baltimore, Maryland.
Dr. P.M. Forni (1951-2018) was an award-winning professor of Italian Literature at Johns Hopkins University. In 2000 he founded The Civility Initiative at Johns Hopkins and taught courses on the theory and history of manners. He is the author of Choosing Civility: The Twenty-five Rules of Conside...
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