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From Ashima Shiraishi, one of the world's youngest and most skilled climbers, comes a true story of strength and perseverance—in rock climbing and in life.
To a rock climber, a boulder is called a "problem," and you solve it by climbing to the top. There are twists and turns, falls and scrapes, and obstacles that seem insurmountable until you learn to see the possibilities within them. And then there is the moment of triumph, when there's...
To a rock climber, a boulder is called a "problem," and you solve it by climbing to the top. There are twists and turns, falls and scrapes, and obstacles that seem insurmountable until you learn to see the possibilities within them. And then there is the moment of triumph, when there's...
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Solving complex problems and selling their solutions is critical for personal and organizational success. However, it doesn't come naturally and most of us haven't been taught how to do it well. Research shows a host of pitfalls trips us up when we try: We're quick to believe we understand a situation and jump to a flawed solution. We seek to confirm our hypotheses and ignore conflicting evidence. We view challenges incompletely through the frameworks...
7) Time Management: How to Use Visual Maps to Solve Problems & Hack Productivity, Time Management (I
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Time Management is a book about what you need to do to become someone who is good at managing their time. This book is your one-stop shop where you can look forward to getting tips and tricks and practices you can implement into your routine. The book starts with setting the groundwork for you to be successful at becoming better at time management. Any good and effective routine needs to start with the right groundwork, and we will help you get started...
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An art historian and lawyer—who uses art to hone perceptions and build visual intelligence—presents a paradigm-shattering twist on problem solving that helps us find real solutions to everyday dilemmas.
As technology has become essential to our daily lives, our reliance on the internet and our electronic devices has exploded , short-circuiting our brains and weakening the critical skills we need to find solutions to difficult issues. Amy Herman...
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If you've ever tried to solve mathematical problems without any idea how to go about it, this book is for you. It will improve your ability to solve all kinds of mathematical problems whether in mathematics, science, engineering, business, or purely recreational mathematical problems (puzzles, games, etc.). In the pages of this book you'll discover seven indispensable problem-solving techniques: inference, classification of action sequences, state...
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No matter your field of expertise, every day you're presented with seemingly impossible challenges. Issues that you or your company can't seem to crack, even after weeks, months, or years of trying.
How do you approach these impossible challenges? Do you have a strategy that you follow, or do you just hold a brainstorming session and hope for the best? Do you tell yourself, "Think harder!" and pray inspiration will strike?
There's a better way to...
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Did you ever stop to think that the human mind is the only thing you know of that can comprehend the meaning of life? This means that somewhere back in your mind there is a place where you merge with and are one with the Mind of God. There is a place in everyone's life where the original Thinker, This Thing Called Life, enters and can, if we will permit it to, guide our thoughts and actions to the solution of all our problems. To find this place,...
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Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) includes major life skills that all students need to get along with others and live happy, healthy lives. This book delves into the essential SEL skill of solving problems, an integral component of the SEL core concept of responsible decision-making. Readers will learn about smart steps to fixing a problem. Accessible text paired with vibrant full-color photographs will allow readers to connect with the concept,...
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Learn what it takes to become a successful lead user who develops and validates innovative new business ideas.
Many of the world’s greatest innovations are spawned when smart people solve their own problems. In MBA terms, these people are called founders, but they’re also known as lead users—the first people to identify problems worth solving because they’re doing things that most other people aren’t. As lead users often stand to benefit...
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Robin Wilson is emeritus professor of pure mathematics at the Open University and emeritus professor of geometry at Gresham College, London. He has written and edited many books on topics ranging from graph theory and combinatorics, via sudoku, philately, and the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, to the history of mathematics. He is currently president of the British Society for the History of Mathematics.
On October 23, 1852, Professor Augustus De Morgan...
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