Open Mind: Discovering the Six Patterns of Natural Intelligence - Softcover

Markova, Dawna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1573240648 ISBN 13: 9781573240642

Verlag: Conari Press, 1996

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An examination of the talents that people have and what makes them do what they do. The author suggests that everyone has the power to change the way they perceive themselves and others, and revolutionize the way they work, communicate and love, by investigating the learning triggers derived from six basic learning patterns. These patterns are all based on how we assimilate auditory, visual, and kinaesthetic information.

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Dawna Markova, Ph.D., is currently a senior affiliate of the Organizational Learning Center at MIT.

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THE OPEN MIND

Exploring the 6 Patterns of Natural Intelligence

By Dawna Markova

Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC

Copyright © 1996 Dawna Markova, Ph.D.
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-57324-064-2

Contents

Chapter 1: Learning is Discovering That Something is Possible
Chapter 2: Becoming Intelligent About Your Intelligence
Chapter 3: The Natural Languages of Your Mind
Chapter 4: The True Nature of Our Difference
Chapter 5: AVK—Auditorily Smart, Visually Centered, Kinesthetically 
Sensitive
Chapter 6: AKV—Auditorily Smart, Kinesthetically Centered, Visually 
Sensitive
Chapter 7: VAK—Visually Smart, Auditorily Centered, Kinesthetically 
Sensitive
Chapter 8: VKA—Visually Smart, Kinesthetically Centered, Auditorily 
Sensitive
Chapter 9: KVA—Kinesthetically Smart, Visually Centered, Auditorily 
Sensitive
Chapter 10: KAY—Kinesthetically Smart, Auditorily Centered, Visually 
Sensitive
Chapter 11: Coming Home to Yourself
Chapter 12: Partnering the Possible—Connecting With Others
Chapter 13: Living In the Questions
Chapter 14: Risk Your Significance
Bibliography
List of Charts
Acknowledgments
Index

CHAPTER 1

Learning is Discovering that Something is Possible

... and you know how to look and learn, then the door is there and the key is in your hand.Nobody on earth can give you either that key or the door to open, except yourself.

—J. Krishnamurti

To be educated is not so much to be taught as it is to be awakened to who you really are.This chapter invites you to open to the journey.

From My Heart to Yours

The ancient Greeks believed the location of the human mind was in the heart. Theyreasoned that since the mind was essential, it must inhabit the most vital of all organs.Wounds to the head were not always deadly, but wounds to the heart were. Theyassumed, therefore, the mind must live in the heart.

If my heart could do my thinking would my brain begin to feel?

—Van Morrison

A friend of mine who is Chinese points to the center of her chest whenever she says, "mymind." She tells me this gesture is common in her culture.

Although we know new blood is constantly flowing through the chambers of our heart,renewing our entire system, once we are adults we assume the capacities of our mindsare fixed. We close ourselves off to a myriad of possibilities: "I'm just not an articulateperson." Or, "I'm a left-brained kind of a guy." But what if we could open our minds to aninflow of new ideas about what we are capable of doing, knowing and being?

I want to bring you into a comfortable kinship with the open mind of your heart. Hopefully,as a result of reading this book, you will begin to trust yourself and to know the world innew ways. I'd like to think that your curiosity will rekindle into an alive, available resource,and that the barriers you have created—the hard, solid crust that keeps the rest of theworld out and you isolated within—will soften into boundaries that define your own spaceand allow a fundamental intimacy with others.

People Learn in Different Ways

This book invites you to learn how you learn. It will not tell you how smart you are, but itwill help you discover HOW you are smart. It is written as an operator's manual for adultswho are attempting to grow up as they grow older, for adolescents who are about to gettheir license to drive their minds on their own, for teachers, care givers, and lovers. It iswritten for anyone who defines himself or herself as a learner, or who has difficulties withrecall, organization, or absorption of information and experience. It is for those of us whokeep getting stuck in communication gaps when what we are attempting to create is ameans of getting through, a meeting place where minds can touch. It is for eagles who aretired of living in cages as if they were chickens.

What is included here is what was excluded from school. The immense educationalsystem in this country teaches people how to do quantum physics (well, some peopleanyway!), speak German, analyze the syntax of a sentence, and use fancy laboratoryequipment and expensive computers, but it never teaches them how to operate their ownminds.

The self is learned. What is learned can be taught

—Virginia Satir;Peoplemaking

We live in an age when we are being forced to deal with rapidly increasing rates of socialand political change. The organization of information and the development of humanresources is our new frontier. Of necessity, we must learn to facilitate the process oflearning. Rather than merely accumulating new theories and more information that will beoutmoded in a few years, our focus must shift to learning how to learn.

You will not find ultimate answers or solutions here, but I hope this book will lead you to asense of the divine, a respect for the mystery that is involved in being human. It will not tellyou where to go or what to do, but it will help you find the path with a gait that is your own.It will not make your life easy, but it will help you understand how you can think, learn, andcommunicate more effectively.

My intent is to create conditions where you can make discoveries about yourself andothers, but there will be no real surprises. The principles are new perspectives of oldlandscapes, a useful vocabulary which enables you to talk about and grasp what talentedcommunicators, teachers, and therapists have known intuitively all along—that peoplelearn in different ways.

This book will help you understand which of six particular patterns of natural intelligenceyour mind uses to concentrate, create, and mentate, and to understand its traits, gifts, andidiosyncrasies. This is not a two-dimensional mental technology that you do to otherpeople. It is a guide for communicating with others at work and home as they are, ratherthan as you think they should be.

This is not the only model for studying mental syntax, the order in which people think.There are systems that utilize similar processes to some you will find in this book, but theirmore technical emphasis on categorizing the workings of the human mind takes them in avery different direction.

The coming to consciousness is not a new thing; it is a long and painful return to thatwhich has always been.

—Helen Luke,The Inner Story

I wrote The Open Mind so you could learn to trust your own mind with all of its wilddetours and unrelenting obsessions. I designed it so you could rediscover the naturalimpulses lost from your childhood. I conceived it to help you create confidence in your owncapacities.

My hope is that this book will provide you with a frame over which you can stretch thecanvas of your own experience. It is meant to give direction and shape, to bring to light theart that lies dormant in your life.

As a heart pumps, it opens and closes. As I've put out these ideas over the last thirtyyears, there has been a tremendous inflow of feedback from others about how to teachand use them effectively....

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Conari Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1573240648
• ISBN 13: 9781573240642
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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