实用经验：判断力技巧与科学 Practical Intelligence: The Art and Science of Common Sense

Karl Albrecht’s bestselling book Social Intelligence showed us how dealing with people and social situations can determine success both at work and in life. Now, in this groundbreaking book Practical Intelligence, Albrecht takes the next step and explains how practical intelligence (PI) qualifies as one of the key life skills and offers a conceptual structure for defining and describing common sense.
Throughout Practical Intelligence, Albrecht explains that people with practical intelligence can employ language skills, make better decisions, think in terms of options and possibilities, embrace ambiguity and complexity, articulate problems clearly and work through to solutions, have original ideas, and influence the ideas of others. Albrecht shows that everyone’s PI skills can be improved with proper education and training and challenges all of us—from parents and teachers to executives and managers—to upgrade our own skills and help others develop their own PI abilities.

作者简介：
Karl Albrecht is a management consultant, executive advisor, futurist, speaker, and author. As Chairman of Karl Albrecht International, he oversees the practical application of his ideas through consulting, seminars, and publishing. He is a prolific writer and the author of the bestselling Service America!, The Northbound Train, Brain Power, The Power of Minds At Work, and Social Intelligence.

Preface
1 A Problem and an Opportunity
Accidental Intelligence: The Terminal Assumption
The Widening "Smart Gap"
The Dumbing of America and the Culture of Amusement
Knows and Know-Nots: The New Social Divide
Who Cares? Who Needs to Care?
2 Multiple Intelligences: The Possible Human
IQ Doesn't Tell the Whole Story
There Are at Least Six Kinds of "Smart"
Building Out: Applying Theory to Everyday Life
Build-Out 1: Emotional Intelligence
Build-Out 2: Social Intelligence
The Next Build-Out: Practical Intelligence
3 What Is Practical Intelligence?
Thinking Is a Bodily Function
Meet Your Biocomputer
Brain Cycles, Brainwaves, Brain States, and the Daily Trance
Mind-Modules: You Have Many "Minds"
Mind-Models: Your Portable Reality
Four Habits That Unlock Your Mental Capacity
Four Dimensions of PI: Your Mega-Skills
Getting Started: Upgrading Your Mental "Software"
4 Mental Software Upgrade 1: Developing Mental Flexibility
Are You a Finished Product?
Dynamic Thinking and Archaic Thinking
You Might Be a Mental Redneck
The Creative Paradox
The "Beginner's Mind&": Innocence and Humility
The "Plexity" Scale
There Is No Truth--Only Your Truth, His Truth, Her Truth, Their Truth
How I Learned to Stop Arguing with People
A New Way to Think About Opinions
Three Phrases That Can Keep Your Mind Open
5 Mental Software Upgrade 2: Adopting Affirmative Thinking
Cleaning Out the Attic: Mental Decontamination
"Sensorship": Choosing What You Will Allow into Your Mind
Resistance to Enculturation, aka "Crap Detecting"
Cleanse Your Mind with a "Media Fast"
Re-Engineering Your Attitudes
The Attitude of Gratitude
The Attitude of Abundance
Practical Altruism
Meditation, Mindmovies, and Affirmations
6 Mental Software Upgrade 3: Adopting Sane Language Habits
Language as Mental Software: What You Say Is What You Think
The "Cookie Cutter" Effect of Language
Jumping to Confusions: Inferential Thinking
"Clean" and "Dirty" Language: Strategies for Semantic Sanity
Expressions You Can Remove from Your Vocabulary
The Self-Conversation: Cleaning Up Your Internal Dialog
Snappy Comebacks: The Language of Funny
7 Mental Software Upgrade 4: Valuing Ideas
Do You Have Lots of Good Ideas? (Almost Everyone Does)
"It Slipped My Mind " (Almost Everything Does)
The Greatest Thinking Tool Ever Invented
Thinking in Pictures
Are You a Yes-Person or a No-Person?
The PIN Formula: Protecting Ideas
Using Your Magical Incubator
"Metaboxical" Thinking: Breaking the Boundaries
8 Mega-Skill 1: "Bivergent" Thinking
The Divergent-Convergent Polarity: The D-C Axis
Process Consciousness: Managing the "Pivot Point"
Groupthink: The Collusion to Fail
Brainstorming: More Often Talked About Than Done
Systematic Creativity: The Balancing Act
9 Mega-Skill 2: "Helicopter" Thinking
The Abstract-Concrete Polarity: The A-C Axis
Visionaries and Actionaries: We Need Both
Connecting the Dots: You Have to See Them to Connect Them
Painting the Big Picture: Mindmapping
Explaining the Big Picture: Using the Language of Ideas
10 Mega-Skill 3: "Intulogical" Thinking
The Logical-Intuitive Polarity: The L-I Axis
Thinking Styles: Yours and Others?
Sequential Thinking: Re-Owning Your Logical Abilities
Trusting Your Hunches: Re-Owning Your Intuitive Abilities
The "Zen Mind": Flow and Mindfulness
11 Mega-Skill 4: "Viscerational" Thinking
The Rational-Emotive Polarity: The R-E Axis
First We Decide--Then We Justify: Irrational Thinking Explained
We'e All Neurotic, and That's OK
The Five Primal Fears We Live By: The Psychology of Risk
Signal Reactions: Disconnecting Your Hot Buttons
Emotions and Health: If It's on Your Mind, It's on Your Body
Can You Motivate Yourself? The "Popeye Point"
12 How to Become an Expert Problem Solver
Forget Those "Five Steps" They Taught You
Using Heuristic (aka Natural) Problem Solving
Your Five Key Mindzones
The High-Speed Problem-Solving Process
13 Success Programming: Causing the Outcomes You Want
Using What We've Learned
Mindmovies: Who's Producing Your Life's Story?
Alpha Programming: Making the Movies You Want
Your Life Wheel: Taking Stock, Setting Priorities, and Making Changes
Appendices
A Answers to Thinking Exercises
B Fifty Tips for Better Thinking
C A Vocabulary for Practical Intelligence
D A Code of Intelligent Discourse
E Learn to Meditate in "One" Lesson: The Harvard Mantra
Index