You're Not Too Much: Intensive Lives in an Expansive World

If people have ever told you you're too much, if you feel everything at super size, if you get really excited about things, if you dive in with both feet, no holds barred you're probably an intensive.

And this book is for you.

Written for intensives and the people around them, You're Not Too Much lays out a new personality model: the Sinha Intensive/Expansive Framework, and then uses it to provide a positive look at oft-criticized characteristics of intense people. It begins by describing the types, then explains what assets intensives bring to the table and how intensives and expansives can connect productively with more appreciation and less frustration on both sides. It covers personal, relationship, and leadership situations, as well as a look at cultural origins and consequences.

In this book:

  • Discover if you (and your kids, and your loved ones, and your colleagues) are an intensive or an expansive
  • What is the bias of the workplace, and how does that affect our choices?
  • How do you learn to love someone who thinks so differently that they drive you up a wall?
  • What do intensive leaders look like, and how do you get things done without overwhelming everyone in your path
  • How did the world get like this, anyway?
  • And what do we do now?
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You're Not Too Much: Intensive Lives in an Expansive World

If people have ever told you you're too much, if you feel everything at super size, if you get really excited about things, if you dive in with both feet, no holds barred you're probably an intensive.

And this book is for you.

Written for intensives and the people around them, You're Not Too Much lays out a new personality model: the Sinha Intensive/Expansive Framework, and then uses it to provide a positive look at oft-criticized characteristics of intense people. It begins by describing the types, then explains what assets intensives bring to the table and how intensives and expansives can connect productively with more appreciation and less frustration on both sides. It covers personal, relationship, and leadership situations, as well as a look at cultural origins and consequences.

In this book:

  • Discover if you (and your kids, and your loved ones, and your colleagues) are an intensive or an expansive
  • What is the bias of the workplace, and how does that affect our choices?
  • How do you learn to love someone who thinks so differently that they drive you up a wall?
  • What do intensive leaders look like, and how do you get things done without overwhelming everyone in your path
  • How did the world get like this, anyway?
  • And what do we do now?
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You're Not Too Much: Intensive Lives in an Expansive World

You're Not Too Much: Intensive Lives in an Expansive World

by Leela Sinha
You're Not Too Much: Intensive Lives in an Expansive World

You're Not Too Much: Intensive Lives in an Expansive World

by Leela Sinha

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Overview

If people have ever told you you're too much, if you feel everything at super size, if you get really excited about things, if you dive in with both feet, no holds barred you're probably an intensive.

And this book is for you.

Written for intensives and the people around them, You're Not Too Much lays out a new personality model: the Sinha Intensive/Expansive Framework, and then uses it to provide a positive look at oft-criticized characteristics of intense people. It begins by describing the types, then explains what assets intensives bring to the table and how intensives and expansives can connect productively with more appreciation and less frustration on both sides. It covers personal, relationship, and leadership situations, as well as a look at cultural origins and consequences.

In this book:

  • Discover if you (and your kids, and your loved ones, and your colleagues) are an intensive or an expansive
  • What is the bias of the workplace, and how does that affect our choices?
  • How do you learn to love someone who thinks so differently that they drive you up a wall?
  • What do intensive leaders look like, and how do you get things done without overwhelming everyone in your path
  • How did the world get like this, anyway?
  • And what do we do now?

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780997818109
Publisher: Leela Sinha
Publication date: 07/12/2016
Pages: 348
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.78(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction
PART ONE: Understanding Intensiveness
A Note to Expansives: Thank You
1 - 1 What Is an Intensive?
1 - 2 The Sinha Intensive/Expansive Framework Test
1 - 3 On Tolerance and Being Squished
A Second Note to Expansives: How to Treat an Intensive
1 - 5 The Intensive Hero
1 - 6 The Impact of Intensiveness
1 - 7 Meditation for Intensives
1 - 8 Self-Acceptance
1 - 9 It Doesn't Have to Be Hard
1 - 10 Struggle is Not a Virtue
PART TWO: Other People
2 - 1 Integrity
2 - 2 Falling for Friendship
2 - 3 How to Be Friends with an Expansive
2 - 4 Falling in Love
2 - 5 Across the Line: Loving an Expansive
2 - 6 Loving an Intensive
2 - 7 Intensives in Families
2 - 8 How to Be Wrong
2 - 9 Every Normal Is Different
2 - 10 Sex
2 - 11 The Value of Surrender
2 - 12 Troubleshooting Sex
PART THREE: Work
3 - 1 Work like Hell, Rest Like You're Dead
3 - 2 Perfectionism
3 - 3 Culture Shock
3 - 4 Leap... and Build the Net
3 - 5 Success
3 - 6 Don't Burn the 10 Percent
3 - 7 Failure
3 - 8 Intensives and Injury
3 - 9 Intensives, Rules, and Power
3 - 10 Fall for Your Work
3 - 11 Intensives in Leadership
3 - 12 The Push
3 - 13 The Utility of Distraction
3 - 14 Intensive and Expansive Institutions
3 - 15 Codeswitching
Note to Expansives: How (and Why) to Codeswitch
3 - 16 The Right Person for the Job
3 - 17 The System in Action
3 - 18 Types of Organizations
PART FOUR: The Care And Feeding Of Your Intensive Brain
4 - 1 Mental Health and the Dark Side
4 - 2 Squished and Fried: Not Recommended
4 - 3 Reconditioning the Brain
4 - 4 Community
4 - 5 Go Big or Go Home...or Not
4 - 6 Problems
4 - 7 Intensives and Anger
4 - 8 Intensives and Addiction
4 - 9 Case Study
PART FIVE: Saving The World
5 - 1 Saving the World
5 - 2 Intercultural Conflict Styles and Intensives
5 - 3 Conclusion: Building the Bridge
Resources
Acknowledgements
About The Author
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