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"Creative Visualization is the art of using mental imagery and affirmation to produce positive changes in your life. It is being successfully used in the fields of health, business, the creative arts, and sports, and in fact can have an impact in every area of your life. With more than six million copies sold worldwide, this pioneering bestseller and perennial favorite helped launch a new movement in personal growth when it was first published. The classic guide is filled with meditations, exercises, and techniques that can help you use the power of your imagination to create what you want in your life, change negative habit patterns, improve self-esteem, reach career goals, increase prosperity, develop creativity, increase vitality, improve your health, experience deep relaxation, and much more. This book can help you to increase your personal mastery of life."

The comments illustrate my use of sports as an example of the point that everyone can think critically if the context is right. (Which shifts discussion from people's deficits as critical thinkers to examining how to create contexts that foster people getting access to their critical thinking intelligence.)

"Monica Reuter's new book on creativity (Palgrave, 2015). She makes the provocative argument that creativity doesn't comes from individuals; it comes from groups, and from large networks distributed through society. Creativity is always defined by influential people in society, and its definition changes depending on the country you're in."

"Nobody said it better than Francis Bacon, back in 1605: For myself, I found that I was fitted for nothing so well as for the study of Truth; as having a mind nimble and versatile enough to catch the resemblances of things … and at the same time steady enough to fix and distinguish their subtler differences; as being gifted by nature with desire to seek, patience to doubt, fondness to meditate, slowness to assert, readiness to consider, carefulness to dispose and set in order; and as being a man that neither affects what is new nor admires what is old, and that hates every kind of imposture."

"includes combinations of synchronous and asynchronous, campus-based, online, distributed, simulation and massive open online course (MOOC)"

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"Power centers are elsewhere - in financial systems, corporations, technology, networks - that long since dispensed with borders. That being the case, loudmouthed, isolationist trumpery may just be a sideshow, an American exercise in après-moi-le-déluge escapism."

The Linda test has another explanation. The choices are read in context, so "Bank teller" is read as "Bank teller and not feminist." The fact that Kahneman and followers do not check out this alternative might show their confirmation bias!

"Step 1: Face Facts "This is the toughest one," said White. "And it can happen a little at a time or all at once." For White, it was the realization that his leg "wasn't growing back. That I wasn't a starfish." Step 2: Choose Life This step differentiates those who remain victims, and those who do not - "those who could imagine a positive life, that my life is more than my body, perhaps, more than this date," said White. "If you make yourself about the date, you'll get stuck in that date. In fact, one of the number one signs of victimhood is living in the past," he said. Step 3: Reach Out "You're tempted when you're bummed out and you're going through trauma to start to sink, to isolate, to go into a shell. But isolation will surely kill you," said White. "And we need people. You can't survive alone. No one survives alone. It's up to survivors as well that they need to do the reach-out, and hopefully there are also people reaching out back." Step 4: Get Moving As White recovered in an Israeli hospital, a nurse was going to let him go to the cafeteria for the first time. He got into a wheelchair.  "And the nurse, she looked down at me and left," he said. White's advice: If you want to move, push. "No one's going to do your recovery for you. No one's going to actually make you better. It's your life," he said. Step 5: Give Back"