These activities, developed and tested at the authors' social skills treatment center, help kids with Asperger's disorder, nonverbal learning disorder, and other social-skill deficits to develop a social sense. Knowing Yourself, Knowing Others covers reading social cues, developing strategies to avoid meltdowns, guessing at other people's intentions, and more.

Our brains seek order and resist the unexpected, inconsistent, and counterintuitive. But life is more often paradoxical than predictable — which is why formulas for fulfillment and success often fail. Instead of fighting the tide of contradiction and confusion, Marc Lesser asserts, we can learn to understand and even embrace them using the simple tools he presents in these pages. Readers learn to master five core competencies: Know Yourself, Forget Yourself; Be Confident, Question Everything; Fight for Change, Accept What Is; Embrace Emotion, Embody Equanimity; and Benefit Others, Benefit Yourself. The result is balance, a version of Buddhism’s “middle way,” which prompts understanding of what is required in any given moment and actions through which we skillfully “dance” with paradox in enriching and joyful ways. Bolstered by the latest in neuroscience, this guide is nuanced and direct, profound and practical.

A common-sense examination of the subject of personality for those who are interested in self-help and self-improvement.

Alex Carberry has written a concentrated and powerful new book which breaks fresh ground by drawing on ancient Sufic traditions and other time-honoured sources of wisdom in order to help you discover your true nature and begin the journey to find yourself and to better understand others. For the first time English speaking readers are given direct access to the penetrating insights of Sufi masters into the invisible elements which determine all human personality types and the opportunities they present to unlock the many advantages that come from simply knowing yourself and by understanding the way other people really are. This book is a small hidden doorway to the secret gardens of our own true happiness and the prospect of an emotional life free of destructive tensions and greater professional success.

This open access book clarifies confusions of strategy that have existed for nearly 40 years through the core thoughts of three fundamental elements. Unlike the traditional definition of strategy as "a plan to achieve a long-term goal from overall considerations”in a linear view, this book defines strategy from non-linear viewpoint as it is in the real world. The art of a strategy lies not only in the determination of development goals, but also in the identification of development problems and putting forward overall guiding ideology of solving problems. Rich illustrations as well as numerous business and military cases are presented in helping readers to understand the fundamental elements of strategy.The general scope of the book includes introductions to the three fundamental elements of strategy, three-sub decisions of a complete strategic decision, incomplete strategies, relationship between tactic and strategy, three elements of competitive and corporative strategies. There may be biases in company-level, real strategic decision-making which makes a complete strategy not necessarily a perfect one. The book introduces biases and reasons for the biases, helping industrial strategic decision-makers understand the importance of knowing the nature of the company, the industry and its environment. In addition, this book also presents principles and evaluation approaches of strategic decisions, explores the reasons for the excessive definitions of the strategy concept, and discusses directions of future’s research tasks.The book will benefit business managers who are interested in knowing what a complete strategic decision is and how to avoid errors or biases in strategic decision-making. It also benefits students in business schools (especially in MBA/EMBA programs) who are (or will be) on executive positions. Academic researchers may find it is interesting to understand strategy from the view of the three elements. The new view provides a novel insight into strategy and promotes several research directions in the future. The three elements of strategy are also applicable to military strategies and readers who are interested in military and may find its value as well.

When you uncover the hidden forces driving your personality, you can unlock your full potential for greatness. Author Joanne Antoun's system allows you to quickly and easily learn how to evaluate personality types on your own in a matter of seconds. You won't have to suffer through lengthy, meandering questionnaires-in fact, there are none at all-or refer to any other resources to achieve complete understanding. This system is simple, fast, easy to use, direct, focused, accurate, thorough, and complete. By using Antoun's system, you can discover why you do the things you do, how you perceive the world, why people respond to you the way they do, and, most importantly, how you can understand yourself and others better at home, at work, in love, socially and more. We all have unconscious motivations, both positive and otherwise. Only by defining what drives us, however, can we hope to harness our own power to live the life we were born to live. You can heal the past, live in the present, and create the future you desire. Your time is now.

Over the past twenty years, Liisa Kyle, Ph.D. has devised self-discovery questions and activities to help people understand themselves better. She's created this comprehensive workbook so you can: * examine your beliefs, personality, strengths, and challenges* understand how you operate* assess what is important, fulfilling, or meaningful to you* discover new insights about yourself* review your past to understand your present. When you understand yourself better, you can: * do more of what is truly meaningful, healthy, or fun for you - and less of what is not * make effective decisions* get things done* improve your relationships* handle challenges* experience real, personal change and growth* get more out of lifeThis book is designed for use by individuals, couples, and small groups

Know Thyself: The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge takes the reader on tour of the nature, value, and limits of self-knowledge. Mitchell S. Green calls on classical sources like Plato and Descartes, 20th-century thinkers like Freud, recent developments in neuroscience and experimental psychology, and even Buddhist philosophy to explore topics at the heart of who we are. The result is an unvarnished look at both the achievements and drawbacks of the many attempts to better know one’s own self. Key topics in this volume include: Knowledge – what it means to know, the link between wisdom and knowledge, and the value of living an "examined life" Personal identity – questions of dualism (the idea that our mind is not only our brain), bodily continuity, and personhood The unconscious — including the kind posited by psychoanalysis as well as the form proposed by recent research on the so-called adaptive unconscious Free will – if we have it, and the recent arguments from neuroscience challenging it Self-misleading – the ways we willfully deceive ourselves, and how this relates to empathy, peer disagreement, implicit bias, and intellectual humility Experimental psychology – considerations on the automaticity of emotion and other cognitive processes, and how they shape us This book is designed to be used in conjunction with the free ‘Know Thyself’ MOOC (massive open online course) created through collaboration of the University of Connecticut's Project on Humility and Conviction in Public Life, and the University of Edinburgh’s Eidyn research centre, and hosted on the Coursera platform (https://www.coursera.org/learn/know-thyself). The book is also suitable as a text for interdisciplinary courses in the philosophy of mind or self-knowledge, and is highly recommended for anyone looking for a short overview of this fascinating topic.

Incisive questions can inspire self-reflection, spark ideas, and, best of all, reveal surprising truths. From Flow, the champions of meditating on life’s simple pleasures, here’s a book of 165 creative questions, some sweet, some silly, some unexpectedly provocative, that will open the mind to deeper self-knowledge. There are no “right” answers—the point is simply to stay curious and stay open to learning about oneself or a friend, partner, or roommate. There are questions to prompt memories: How many homes have you lived in? To fuel a fantasy life: Which historical event do you wish you could have seen with your own eyes? To tap into your sense of adventure: What’s the wildest thing you’ve ever done? To remind you to live in the present: What were the three best things that happened today? To celebrate your strength: When have you stood up for yourself? A signature Flow book in its mindful theme and charming, colorful aesthetic with vibrant patterns and hand-lettering, Know Yourself is a pleasure to browse through and share.

The first systematic study of Socrates' interest in selfhood, examining ancient philosophical ideas of what constitutes the self.