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Choice Points: Navigate Your Career Using the Unique PaperRoom Process

Sydney Rice

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What you don't see can hurt you: Hidden habits, unexamined beliefs, and old expectations grow from strategies you've developed to survive. These "silent partners" make change difficult. You feel stuck, trapped in terminal disatisfaction, and hungry for congruence between work and life, according to career coach Sydney Rice.

CHOICE POINTS shows you how to create the career you want and maintain control over success and quality of life. Join Rice's clients in tracing work and life paths through discovery in The PaperRoom (TM)--Rice's groundbreaking inquiry process for career exploration and discovery.

Rice's proven, user-friendly tools optimize effectiveness. You'll make invisible assumptions appear, acknowledge successes, and develop strategies that meet needs and values as new options blossom. Personal inquiry exercises will uncover blocks to change, then stretch old thinking with new practices. Scanning for content and context of current and past work, focusing on what's most satisfying, then bringing together all the information to take action, you will build from peak experiences to make personally and professionally fulfilling career choices. And you can use the author's book group guidelines to assemble a team of fellow travelers seeking a unique and meaningful career path.

My Blue Blanket: Choosing to Put It Away

Joyce Landorf Heatherley

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Powerful and inspriational-I keep it by my nightstand. 5 out of 5 stars.
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A powerful personal testimony of suffering, deep healing and recovery. As usual, Mrs. Heatherley is able to verbalize all the fears, pain and soaring hope that is within today's woman. I keep it by my nightstand and refer to the book often. Truly a comfort and source of hope.

Very moving and realistic 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

Joyce is my favorite author. She is realistic in her writings, and you know she is human just like the rest of us. In this book she shares how she finally came to grips with her relationship with her earthly father and also shares some of the responsibility for why the relationship was not ideal.

Totally Awesome 5 out of 5 stars.
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I have read this book several times, and everytime I do, it never ceases to amaze me. The truths that are revealed in the book, are truely inspirational!! Why....you may be asking??? Because, only one who has truely been broken, can explain what brokeness means...and only then can you help another in such pain. You will find in this book, what it means to be a "Wounded Healer" Joyce opens her heart so beautifully, giving us a glimps into her unworld pain...and then showing us the true path of healing. Will you choose to find the root causes to your pain...and, will you choose to put away the security of your Blue Blanket...???

Editorial Review:

This book is about choosing to set aside those blue blankets of "security" that numb us from genuine and lasting recovery from painful experiences.

Judgement and Choice, Second Edition

Robin M. Hogarth

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Despite the many formal methods available most decisions are made intuitively—that is, without apparent reasoning and almost instinctively. This revised and updated edition emphasizes the unstructured and natural way people make judgements and exercise choice, which accounts for almost all real decision-making activity, but argues that intuition can be both studied and educated. The book is quite different from standard texts on decision-making methodology and standard decisions theory in that it is written from the point of view of a psychologist who recognizes that almost all decisions are based on anticipations people make about the future (predictive judgements) which lead to choices or decisions largely based on intuition. Written in a clear and non-technical way it deals with the basis of intuitive judgement, demonstrates the limitations on the human ability to make judgements, and suggests the means of overcoming potential shortcomings. At the same time it stresses the importance of learning the limits to ones judgmental a bility. The purpose of this book is to help people make better decisions. In a world of increasing uncertainty and complexity Judgement and Choice will be of great value to all decision makers—in commerce, government service, medicine or any other professional activity. Contents Preface;

1. The nature of human judgement;
2. Randomness and the probabilistic environment;
3. Combining information for prediction;
4. Combining information for evaluation and choice;
5. Choice under uncertainty;
6. On learning relations;
7. The role of memory in judgement;
8. Creativity, imagination, and choice;
9. Problem structuring and decision aids;
10. Human judgement—an overview; Appendices; Index

Reviews of the First Edition `…I believe that Professor Hogarths book will prove to be of historical importance in the development of the field of human judgement. R.M. Corbin, Journal of Forecasting, Vol. 1. 1982. `…Hogarth has given us a clear, integrated treatment of the major issues in the field and has managed to convey both the excitement of the work itself and the direct practical implications of the findings. Terry Connolly, ASQ, June 1982.

Strong Feelings: Emotion, Addiction, and Human Behavior (Jean Nicod Lectures)

Jon Elster

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Emotion and addiction lie on a continuum between simple visceral drives such as hunger, thirst, and sexual desire at one end and calm, rational decision making at the other. Although emotion and addiction involve visceral motivation, they are also closely linked to cognition and culture. They thus provide the ideal vehicle for Jon Elster's study of the interrelation between three explanatory approaches to behavior: neurobiology, culture, and choice.

The book is organized around parallel analyses of emotion and addiction in order to bring out similarities as well as differences. Elster's study sheds fresh light on the generation of human behavior, ultimately revealing how cognition, choice, and rationality are undermined by the physical processes that underlie strong emotions and cravings. This book will be of particular interest to those studying the variety of human motivations who are dissatisfied with the prevailing reductionisms.

I Never Knew I Had A Choice: Explorations in Personal Growth (with InfoTrac)

Gerald Corey, Marianne Schneider Corey

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Total reviews: 7 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Nice Idea, VERY Poor Execution (w/ Catholic bias) 2 out of 5 stars.
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This book attempts to cover most if not all the major areas of life in which we must make choices about who we are as individuals, what direction we wish to go. The title of the book suggests that the book's design is to enlighten the reader about the nature of such choices.

Unfortunately, in the my eyes and those of the other introspective members of a class just finished that required this book, the book is a failure in that it attempts to cover so very much material, is insufficiently edited, and generally fails to focus attention on the key life choices suggested by the book's title. Instead, we found the book a rather empty promise of good things to come.

Chapter one begins with some good insight into various ways we learn or relate to the world that may differ from others. That's useful information. Chapter two deals with the major issues children must deal with to mature (at least in western cultures). Chapter two is the highpoint of the book, and its rapidly downhill from there thru another 400pgs and 12 chapters.

A typical chapter will open with 2-4 pages of well conceived, well written text outlining in general terms a life issue such as sexuality or aging. But then the authors will drone on in needless and counter-productive detail without every reaching a point or conclusion, and often going into tantential personal examples that add little -- both clear signs of an absentee editor.

The chapter on sexuality has no -- repeat, no -- mention of birth control, abortion or masturbation, suggesting a Catholic bias to their approach. Does that make sense to you if this is a book about choice?

In fact, my central complaint about this book is that the title could have been a great focal point for the authors. Instead, it seems to have been a marketing afterthought and has little to do with the authors' book.

Our class of 13 had a hand in selecting this book at the beginning of our spring term. While the choice was unanimous, we were equally unanimous in our great disappointment with the book when it was all over.

Editorial Review:

Thousands of readers have been touched by past editions of this warm, frank, and personal book focused on personal growth. This book is designed to help students expand their self-awareness as they explore the significant choices available to them in the various dimensions of life. As students work through the self-inventories, exercises, and activities and read the first-person accounts of the choices real people have made in response to challenging life events, they will begin to explore themselves, their lives, and their beliefs and attitudes in a way that is personally empowering.

CONOCE EL PODER DE TU CAMPO CUANTICO (Spanish Edition)

Anderson, Brenda

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A menudo pensamos que nuestra vida se encuentra a merced de todo tipo de circunstancias y de fuerzas externas que nos hacen navegar a su capricho. Este libro demuestra que, por el contrario, todos tenemos el poder de dar forma a nuestra propia existencia, y que sólo de nosotros depende conseguir más plenitud y más éxito. Brenda Anderson argumenta que todo en el universo está interconectado y muestra cómo utilizar el campo cuántico para tomar el control de nuestra propia vida y llevarla a la Zona de Poder. / Brenda Anderson presents a fresh approach to everyday life based on the premise that everyone and everything in the universe are interconnected, and she shows you how to play the quantum field to create success and joy at home or on the job. She posits that the old rules no longer apply and presents a new set of rules, which include ten energetic choices you can make to take control of your life and move into what she calls the Power Zone. Once you grasp how easy it is to move among the choices along the energy spectrum, each day will become a dynamic, empowering exploration of the unlimited potential of the Field.

Affective Intelligence and Political Judgment

George E. Marcus, W. Russell Neuman, Michael MacKuen

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Although the rational choice approach toward political behavior has been severely criticized, its adherents claim that competing models have failed to offer a more scientific model of political decisionmaking. This measured but provocative book offers precisely that: an alternative way of understanding political behavior based on cognitive research.

The authors draw on research in neuroscience, physiology, and experimental psychology to conceptualize habit and reason as two mental states that interact in a delicate, highly functional balance controlled by emotion. Applying this approach to more than fifteen years of election results, they shed light on a wide range of political behavior, including party identification, symbolic politics, and negative campaigning.

Remarkably accessible, Affective Intelligence and Political Judgment urges social scientists to move beyond the idealistic notion of the purely rational citizen to form a more complete, realistic model that includes the emotional side of human judgment.

The Intelligent Imitator: Towards an Exemplar Theory of Behavioral Choice (Advances in Psychology)

Reidar Kvadsheim

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The Intelligent Imitator: Towards an Exemplar Theory of Behavioral Choice (Advances in Psychology)

Reidar Kvadsheim

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