Autopilot — The Art and Science of Doing Nothing by Andrew Smart

By Andrew Smart

]Andrew shrewdpermanent wishes you to take a seat and do not anything even more usually – and he has the technology to provide an explanation for why.At each flip we're driven to do extra, quicker and extra successfully: that drumbeat resounds all through our wage-slave society. Multitasking is not just a advantage, it's a need. Books reminiscent of Getting issues performed, the single Minute supervisor, and The 7 behavior of powerful humans usually best the bestseller lists, and feature spawned a substantial industry.But Andrew clever argues that slackers could have the final snort.

The newest neuroscience indicates that the "culture of effectiveness" is not just useless, it may be damaging in your future health. He makes a compelling case – subsidized through technological know-how – that filling lifestyles with task at paintings and at domestic really hurts your brain.A survivor of corporate-mandated "Six Sigma" education to enhance potency, shrewdpermanent has channeled a self-described "loathing" of the time-management right into a witty, informative and wide-ranging ebook that attracts at the latest examine into mind strength. Use it to give an explanation for to bosses, kinfolk, and buddies why you must sit back – straight away.

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By Andrew Smart

]Andrew shrewdpermanent wishes you to take a seat and do not anything even more usually – and he has the technology to provide an explanation for why.At each flip we're driven to do extra, quicker and extra successfully: that drumbeat resounds all through our wage-slave society. Multitasking is not just a advantage, it's a need. Books reminiscent of Getting issues performed, the single Minute supervisor, and The 7 behavior of powerful humans usually best the bestseller lists, and feature spawned a substantial industry.But Andrew clever argues that slackers could have the final snort.

The newest neuroscience indicates that the "culture of effectiveness" is not just useless, it may be damaging in your future health. He makes a compelling case – subsidized through technological know-how – that filling lifestyles with task at paintings and at domestic really hurts your brain.A survivor of corporate-mandated "Six Sigma" education to enhance potency, shrewdpermanent has channeled a self-described "loathing" of the time-management right into a witty, informative and wide-ranging ebook that attracts at the latest examine into mind strength. Use it to give an explanation for to bosses, kinfolk, and buddies why you must sit back – straight away.

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H. die im gemeinschaftlichen Lebensprozess gründende Bereitschaft des Einzelnen, zumindest einen Teil des individuellen Energiepotenzials für die Erreichung gemeinsamer Ziele einzusetzen. Beispielhaft sei hier die Befriedigung der wichtigsten Grundbedürfnisse zur Lebenserhaltung wie etwa Ernährung, Kleidung, Wohnung, Schutz und Pflege genannt. 2. Gemeinsames Fühlen, d. h. die aus dem Zusammenleben entspringende Erfahrung von gemeinsam erlebter positiver und negativer Emotionalität. Hierzu kçnnen aus dem Wir-Erleben resultierende Gefühle wie z.

L’Abate (1985) hat daher vorgeschlagen, für familientherapeutisch ausgebildete Psychologinnen und Psychologen die Bezeichnung »Kli- nischer Familienpsychologe« bzw. »Klinische Familienpsychologin« einzuführen, um das zusätzliche psychologische Kompetenzprofil gegenüber nicht-psychologischen Familientherapeuten herauszustellen. 2. Familienmedizin. Obwohl es auf den ersten Blick einleuchtend ist, dass gesundheitliche Probleme im Kontext von Familien entstehen und auch behandelt werden kçnnen, gibt es im deutschsprachigen Raum erst seit 2002 eine Fachgesellschaft, die sich neben der Allgemeinmedizin auch der Familienmedizin widmet (DEGAM, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Allgemeinmedizin und Familienmedizin).

Persçnlichkeitspsychologie. Diese Grundlagendisziplin der Psychologie beschäftigt sich schwerpunktmäßig mit intraund interindividuellen Unterschieden in der Gesamtorganisation des Verhaltens und Erlebens von Personen. Sobald nach den Bedingungen und Konsequenzen intra- und interindividueller Persçnlichkeitsunterschiede gefragt wird, kommen notgedrungenerweise familiale Einflüsse mit ins Spiel – sei es unter Berücksichtigung spezifischer Formen der Eltern-Kind-Interaktion (Halverson & Wampler, 1997) oder im Hinblick auf den Beitrag genetischer Einflüsse, die jeder Einzelne in die familiale Beziehungsgestaltung einbringt (Asendorpf, 2008 a; Reiss, 1995).

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