Some (recently) encountered books/articles which apply to Human Communication dynamics to LIFE
( Suggestions welcome! )
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| ► Talking To Strangers: - Malcolm Gladwell-- (Little,Brown) {Examples of miscommunication that can occur when interaction with people we don't know} | |
► Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking - Malcolm Gladwell-- (Back Bay/Little, Brown) {the roles of instincts & hunches in human perception}
► The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption - Clay Johnson(Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media, Inc.) {too much information! We're drowning in data but starved for knowledge}
► Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell-- (Back Bay/Little,Brown) {success = talent+ luck+ opportunity+ thinking outside the box}
► Quiet (the power of introverts in a World that can't stop talking) - Susan Cain -- (Crown Publishers) {our society usually undervalues such personalities - although as much as one-third of the population fall into this category!}
► Imagine: How Creativity Works- Jonah Lehrer (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) {approaching the creative mind as a learn-able process, not a uniquely innate talent.}
► Language: The Cultural Tool - Daniel L. Everett (Pantheon Books) {our encoding skill is actually a complex combination of brain function, cognition, culture, and communication}
► Mind Code: How the Language we use influences the way we think - Charles E. Bailey (Global Institute for Scientific Thinking, Lake Mary,FL) { "integrates physical biological, social, & cognitive behavioral science with complex adaptive systems"... and "deciphers the natural language code--the key to understanding the how and why of human thought"}
►Sticks and Stones (Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy) - Emily Bazelon (Random House) {an exploration of the complex & complicated dynamics underlying such non humane behaviors}
►The Organized Mind ( Thinking Straight in the age of Information Overload) - Daniel J. Levitin (Dutton) { a neuroscientist explores how "Highly Successful Person's seem to maximize the brain's ability to strategize the organization via memory and pragmatic techniques}
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