Power of Impossible Thinking, The: Transform

Why your mental models are your #1 obstacle to success... and how to transform them into your biggest advantage! - If you can think impossible thoughts you can do impossible things. - Your perception is reality. What we see is what we think and what we think is what we see. - Apply your new mental models in business - and throughout your entire life.

Colin Crook is senior fellow of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

(AN ASIDE) IS THIS ANY WAY TO START A BOOK?

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PREFACE

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HIJACKING OUR MINDS

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Mental Models

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What We See Is What We Think

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The Importance of Mental Models

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Thinking the Impossible

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PART 1 RECOGNIZE THE POWER AND LIMITS OF MENTAL MODELS

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CHAPTER 1 OUR MODELS DEFINE OUR WORLD

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Rethinking IBM's Research Model

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Compartmentalization of Business and Personal Life

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Domestic Emerging Markets

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THE PARALLEL UNIVERSES IN OUR MINDS

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Building Our Brains

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WHERE "MODELS" COME FROM

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Models for the Moment

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AVOIDING OBSOLESCENCE

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THE CONSEQUENCES OF MODELS

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ENDNOTES

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CHAPTER 2 RUNNING THE MIRACLE MILE

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Flights of Fancy

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Shifting Models

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Models That Are Out of Sync with the times

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THE POWER OF MODELS

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PERILS OF MODELS

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Changing the Tune

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Making a Segway: The Bumpy Ride to a New Model

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THE HUMAN SPIRIT IS INDOMITABLE

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PART 2 KEEPING YOUR MODELS RELEVANT

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CHAPTER 3 SHOULD YOU CHANGE HORSES?

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Place Your Bets

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A Wild Ride

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KNOWING WHEN TO SWITCH HORSES

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OFF TO THE RACES

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CHAPTER 4 PARADIGM SHIFTS ARE A TWO-WAY STREET

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SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW

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THE SEQUENCE OF SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS

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SOMETIMES WE GO ONLY ONE WAY

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THE PARADIGM SWING: LIVING IN ST. PETERSBURG

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PARADIGMS WHOSE TIME HAS NOT YET COME

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SEEING IN BOTH DIRECTIONS

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CHAPTER 5 SEEING A NEW WAY OF SEEING

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HOW TO SEE DIFFERENTLY

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NEW MAPS

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CHAPTER 6 SIFT FOR SENSE FROM STREAMS OF COMPLEXITY

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What Is Knowledge?

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THROWING A DROWNING MAN ANOTHER MEGABYTE OF DATA

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Knowing More, Knowing Less

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Swallowing the Sea

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ITS ALL ABOUT CONTEXT

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Zooming In and Out

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THE PROCESS OF ZOOMING IN AND ZOOMING OUT

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Knowing Where You Stand

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Zooming In

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Zooming Out

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EXTREME THINKING: SIMULTANEOUS ZOOMING IN AND OUT

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AN APPLICATION: DO YOU WANT FRIES WITH THAT?

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ZOOMING

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CHAPTER 7 ENGAGE IN R&D OF THE MIND

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THE NEED FOR EXPERIMENTS

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CONDUCTING COGNITIVE R&D

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Making a Leap

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Challenges of Experimentation

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When to Experiment: Weighing the Costs and Returns of Cognitive R&D

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INTO THE LABORATORY

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LIFE AS A LABORATORY: CONTINUOUS ADAPTIVE EXPERIMENTATION

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PART 3 TRANSFORM YOUR WORLD

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CHAPTER 8 DISMANTLE THE OLD ORDER

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PERSISTENCE OF MODELS

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CHANGING MODELS: REVOLUTION OR EVOLUTION

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SMOOTHING THE WAY TO A NEW ORDER

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CASTLES IN THE AIR

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CHAPTER 9 FIND COMMON GROUND TO BRIDGE ADAPTIVE DISCONNECTS

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ADAPTIVE DISCONNECTS

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THE NEED FOR UNLEARNING

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ADDRESSING ADAPTIVE DISCONNECTS

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Recognizing Your Own Adaptive Disconnects

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Bridging the Gaps

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A Process for Connecting

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ADAPTING THE WORLD

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PART 4 ACT QUICKLY AND EFFECTIVELY

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CHAPTER 10 DEVELOP THE INTUITION TO ACT QUICKLY

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WHAT IS INTUITION?

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Instinct, Insight and Intuition

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THE POWER OF CREATIVE LEAPS

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DANGERS OF INTUITION

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DEVELOPING YOUR CAPACITY FOR INTUITION

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MODELS IN ACTION

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CHAPTER 11 THE POWER TO DO THE IMPOSSIBLE

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HOWARD SCHULTZ

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Rethinking Coffee

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A Journey of Discovery and Intuition

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Bridging Adaptive Disconnects

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Building a New Order

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Zooming In and Out

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Continuous Experimentation and Challenging the Model

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Stretching Beyond the Possible

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OPRAH WINFREY

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Rethinking the Talk Show

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Adaptive Experimentation:

Books, Magazines and Other Media

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Bridging Adaptive Disconnects

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Build a World Order: The Harpo Infrastructure to Support the Oprah Brand

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ANDY GROVE

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Continuous Reinvention and Experimentation

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Changing Horses: The Strategic Inflection Point

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Using Paranoia and Cassandras to See Things Differently

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Intuition

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A Two-way Street: Adding Market Perspective to Engineering Through "Intel Inside"

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CONCLUSIONS

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ENDNOTES

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CHAPTER 12 CHALLENGING YOUR

OWN THINKING: PERSONAL, BUSINESS AND SOCIETY

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HEALTHY THINKING: MAKING SENSE IN PERSONAL LIFE

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DOT-COM: MAKING SENSE IN BUSINESS

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TERRORISM AND INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS: MAKING SENSE IN SOCIETY

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Keep Your Eye on the Model

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ENDNOTES

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CONCLUSION WHAT YOU THINK IS WHAT YOU DO

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Beyond Possibility

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APPENDIX THE NEUROSCIENCE BEHIND MENTAL MODELS

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CORE CONCEPTS

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We Live Together in Separate Worlds

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We Use Only a art of What We See

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Reality Is a Story the Brain and World Work Out Together

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Mental Models

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The Cartesian Theater

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The Reality of Reality

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EXPLICATIONS

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Walking on a Dark City Street at Midnight (Book Opening)

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Shaking Hands with Bugs Bunny: The Nature of Memory (Book Opening)

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Overlooking Gorillas: Inattention Blindness (Book Opening)

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Hard Wiring: Nature vs. Nurture (Chapter 1)

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Seeing Things Differently (Chapter 5)

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Zooming In and Out to Sift for Sense from Streams of Complexity (Chapter 6)

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A Self-reflexive World: Epistemological Solipsism (Chapter 9)

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Intuition (Chapter 10)

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Cultivating a Practice of "Letting Go" (Chapter 10)

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ENDNOTES

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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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INDEX

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