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The Power of Understanding Yourself

Author Dave Mitchell
Release Date: 2019/01/01
ISBN: 9781119516330
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Book Description

Discover your true self and align your life journey around your core beliefs, values and perspective.

Designed as both a companion piece to the author's previous book, The Power of Understanding People, and a stand-alone work, The Power of Understanding Yourself provides readers with a blueprint for examining their true purpose and approach to life and a map for achieving greater personal happiness, professional success and self-awareness.

It explores personal attributes related to interactive style, diving deeper into the concepts from the author's previous book, provides exercises for exploring how to connect your current life status to a desired future state and encourages readers to engage in a deep exploration of their core values, beliefs, mission and vision to become their best self.

•    Find the key to self-discovery and personal development

•    Uncover your true purpose

•    Use helpful exercises to reveal the best you

•    Develop strategies to maximize your potential

The Power of Understanding Yourself is an empowering tool to help you find your best possible self and flourish.

Table of Contents

  1. Preface
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. PART ONE: THE GRAPE
    1. Chapter 1 Metacognition: The Process of Evaluating “The Juice”
      1. Metacognition Versus Self-Awareness
      2. Thinking About Our Thoughts
      3. Choosing to Extract Me
      4. Your Cognitive Schemas Make You Unique
    2. Chapter 2 Locus of Control: You Are the Winemaker
      1. Delusions, Control, and Disappointment
      2. Finding Your Locus of Control
    3. Chapter 3 Alignment: From Vine to Bottle
      1. Inputs and Outputs
      2. Horizontal Alignment
    4. Chapter 4 Core Ideology: The Crush of Juice, Stems, Skins, and Seeds
      1. Examining Inputs
      2. Assessing Your Desired Outputs
      3. Identifying Your Core Ideology
      4. Vertical Alignment
  4. PART TWO: THE STYLE
    1. Chapter 5 What’s My Style?: Shades of Me
      1. Understanding Interactive Style
    2. Chapter 6 Experts: It’s About the Process for Me
      1. Meeting the Expert
      2. The Behavioral Cues (or lack thereof) of Experts
      3. An Expert Is a Wine’s Acidity
    3. Chapter 7 Romantics: It’s About the People for Me
      1. Meeting the Romantic
      2. Putting Others’ Happiness Before Your Own
      3. Reframing Childhood Trials
      4. A Romantic Is a Wine’s Sweetness
    4. Chapter 8 Masterminds: It’s About the Possibilities for Me
      1. Meeting the Mastermind
      2. Breaking the Rule in Order to Follow the Rule
      3. A Mastermind Is a Wine’s Fruit
    5. Chapter 9 Warriors: It’s About the Pace and the Point for Me
      1. Meeting the Warrior
      2. No Room for Interesting Details
      3. A Warrior Is a Wine’s Tannin
  5. PART THREE: THE BALANCE
    1. Chapter 10 Punching Down the Cap: The Pursuit of Balance
      1. Finding the Right Balance
      2. The Good and Bad of Stress
    2. Chapter 11 Punching Down the Expert Style Influence on Me
      1. Complementary Versus Contrasting Balance
      2. An Expert with a Secondary Romantic (lowest score A column, next-lowest score B column)
      3. An Expert with a Secondary Mastermind (lowest score A column, next-lowest score C column)
      4. An Expert with a Secondary Warrior (lowest score A column, next-lowest score D column)
      5. Extracting Me Worksheet
    3. Chapter 12 Punching Down the Romantic Style Influence on Me
      1. A Romantic with a Secondary Expert (lowest score B column, second-lowest score A column)
      2. A Romantic with a Secondary Mastermind (lowest score B column, second-lowest score C column)
      3. A Romantic with a Secondary Warrior (lowest score B column, second-lowest score D column)
      4. Extracting Me Worksheet
    4. Chapter 13 Punching Down the Mastermind Style Influence on Me
      1. A Mastermind with a Secondary Expert (lowest score C column, next-lowest score A column)
      2. A Mastermind with a Secondary Romantic (lowest score C column, next-lowest score B column)
      3. A Mastermind with a Secondary Warrior (lowest score C column, next-lowest score D column)
      4. Extracting Me Worksheet
    5. Chapter 14 Punching Down the Warrior Style Influence on Me
      1. A Warrior with a Secondary Expert (lowest score D column, next-lowest score A column)
      2. A Warrior with a Secondary Romantic (lowest score D column, next-lowest score B column)
      3. A Warrior with a Secondary Mastermind (lowest score D column, next-lowest score C column)
      4. Extracting Me Worksheet
    6. Chapter 15 An Example of Punching Down Your Own Style
      1. Analyzing My Assessment
  6. PART FOUR: THE VINTAGE
    1. Chapter 16 Veraison: The Evolution of Me
      1. 16.1 A Shift in Perspective
      2. 16.2 Holy &#!*
      3. 16.3 Identifying Your Veraison
    2. Chapter 17 Age-Worthy: Maintaining the Best Me
      1. 17.1 Becoming Better with Age
      2. 17.2 An Endless Appetite for Learning
      3. 17.3 Civil Conversations for Understanding Different Perspectives
      4. 17.4 Aging Well Physically
      5. 17.5 A Plan for Greater Achievement
  7. Epilogue Uncorking Me
  8. Extracting Me Worksheet
  9. About the Author
  10. Index
  11. End User License Agreement
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