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Index
Title Page
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction
1. When Practice Makes Imperfect
Overlearned Skills
Whose Basics?
The Value of Doubt
Sideways Learning
Can a Text Teach Mindfully?
2. Creative Distraction
The Puzzle of Attention
Enhancing Novelty
Soft Vigilance
Rethinking Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
3. The Myth of Delayed Gratification
All Work and No Play
Turning Play into Work
Turning Work into Play
4. 1066 What? or The Hazards of Rote Memory
Locking Up Information
Keeping Information Available
Drawing Distinctions
5. A New Look at Forgetting
Staying in the Present
The Dangers of Mindless Memory
Absentminded versus Other Minded
Does Memory Decline?
Alternative Views of Memory and Aging
6. Mindfulness and Intelligence
Nineteenth-Century Theories of Intelligence
The Notion of Optimum Fit
An Alternative Ability
Linear versus Mindful Problem Solving
7. The Illusion of Right Answers
Hobbled by Outcomes
Actor/Observer and Other Perspectives
Uncertainty and Creative Thought
When Right Becomes Wrong
Mindfulness and Self-Definition
Learning as Re-imagining the World
Notes
Index
About the Author
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