The Power of Mindful Learning by Ellen J

The Power of Mindful Learning by Ellen J. Langer
Publisher: Addison Wesley Longman, Inc.
Paperback, 167pp.
ISBN: 0201339919
Publisher: Addison Wesley Longman, Inc.
Pub. Date: March 1998

From The Publisher:
In business, sports, laboratories, or at home, our learning is hobbled by certain antiquated and pervasive misconceptions. In this pithy, liberating, and delightful book she gives us a fresh, new view of learning in the broadest sense. Such familiar notions as delayed gratification, "the basics", or even "right answers", are all incapacitating myths which Langer explodes one by one. She replaces them with her concept of mindful or conditional learning which she demonstrates, with fascinating examples from her research, to be extraordinarily effective. Mindful learning takes place with an awareness of context and of the ever-changing nature of information. Learning without this awareness, as Langer shows convincingly, has severely limited uses and often sets one up for failure.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 When Practice Makes Imperfect
2 Creative Distraction
3 The Myth of Delayed Gratification
4 1066 What? or the Hazards of Rote Memory
5 A New Look at Forgetting
6 Mindfulness and Intelligence
7 The Illusion of Right Answers
Notes
Index

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