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    The Thinking Life: How to Thrive in the Age of Distraction
    The Thinking Life: How to Thrive in the Age of Distraction
    The Thinking Life: How to Thrive in the Age of Distraction
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    The Thinking Life: How to Thrive in the Age of Distraction

    Written by P. M. Forni

    Narrated by David Drummond

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    About this audiobook

    P. M. Forni, founder of the Civility
    Initiative at Johns Hopkins, isAmerica's civility expert.In his first
    two books, Choosing Civility and The Civility Solution, he taught people therules of civil behavior andways ofresponding to
    rudeness.Now, in The Thinking Life, helooks at the importance of
    thinking in our lives: how we do it, why we don't do enough of it, and
    why we need to do more of it. In twelve short chapters, he
    gives listeners aremedy for the Age of Distraction,an agefueled by
    theinternet,Blackberries, and cellphones, all ofwhichmake constant
    demands on our attention, diverting itfrom one
    thingtoanother.Aftersuggesting ways we can find time to think
    more,Forni shows us how we can improve our abilities of:AttentionReflectionIntrospectionSelf-controlPositive thinkingProactive thinkingEffective decision-making strategiesCreative thinkingProblem-solving strategiesJust
    as he did with civility, heputsthe importance of good thinkingfront
    and center in a bookas simple and as profound as his earlier works.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateNov 28, 2011
    ISBN9781452675121
    The Thinking Life: How to Thrive in the Age of Distraction
    Author

    P. M. Forni

    Dr. P.M. Forni (1951-2018) was an award-winning professor of Italian Literature at Johns Hopkins University. In 2000 he founded The Civility Initiative at Johns Hopkins and taught courses on the theory and history of manners. He is the author of Choosing Civility: The Twenty-five Rules of Considerate Conduct (2002), The Civility Solution: What to Do When People Are Rude (2008) and The Thinking Life: How to Thrive in the Age of Distraction (2011). Reports on his work have appeared on The New York Times, The Times of London, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Los Angeles Times. He has been a on a number of radio and television shows, including ABC's World News Tonight, CBS Sunday Morning and BBC's Outlook. He lived in Baltimore, Maryland.

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    • 2/5
      Some nice ideas but just the author's opinion with no basis in research nor does he explain why his opinion matters.
    • 3/5
      I love the premise of this book - that we don't spend enough time just thinking. A lot of people are so caught up in the activities of their lives that they never spend a moment to think about what it all means. This is a great book to help you assess whether or not you do enough thinking. It is a quick read and has some good stories that reinforce the ideas.