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It's not about the shark : how to solve unsolvable problems Cover Image Book Book

It's not about the shark : how to solve unsolvable problems

Niven, David 1971- (Author).

Summary: Shows us how to transform our daily lives, our work lives, and our family lives with a simple, but rock-solid principle: If you start by thinking about your problems, you'll never make it to a solution. If you start by thinking about a solution, you'll never worry about your problems again.

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  • ISBN: 9781250042033 (hardback)
  • ISBN: 1250042038 (hardback)
  • ISBN: 9781250066442 (International Edition)
  • ISBN: 1250066441 (International Edition)
  • Physical Description: print
    230 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2014.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-222) and index.

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Subject: Problem solving
Decision making

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Introduction: Problem or Godsend? 1(6)
1 Imaginary Philip and the Problem of Problems
7(16)
2 Humans, Swamp People, and the Survival Problem
23(18)
3 Power and the Farb Problem
41(20)
4 Don't Come Home for Christmas and Other Lessons on Trying Harder and Making It Worse
61(22)
5 Would You Get on the Bus to Abilene?
83(20)
6 Four Points and the Wrongness of Always Being Right
103(22)
7 Miss Iceland, the Gangster, and the Cat: What Happens When You Burn the First Draft
125(20)
8 The Knowledge Is Like a Toothache: The Value of Taking the Long Way
145(20)
9 Dark, Soft, Smooth, and Slow: The Power of Opposites
165(18)
10 What Are These Bells For? The Art of Listening to Yourself
183(22)
Conclusion: What Do You Do with Water? 205(4)
Acknowledgments 209(2)
Sources 211(8)
Endnotes/Research Studies 219(4)
Index 223

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