Wise and Shine: Think Clearly, Live Deeply, Be Someone You Value

by Robert N. Stonehill

Overview

 

Silver Medal winner, 2019 IPPY Awards (Mind Body Spirit)

 

This visual, deep-thinking manual that Publishers Weekly called "deeply erudite" will help you transform your inner world. Combining traditional wisdom with contemporary psychology, the shapes of empathy presented here will help you think with care and live with purpose. Through awareness of motivations and multiple perspectives, you will learn to connect to the human spirit that lies beyond mere appearance. Begin your journey inward to sharpen your imagination and craft a life of meaning.

 

Product Details

BN ID:	2940156133260
Publisher:	The Empathy Express
Publication date:	01/15/2019
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Theorist, caregiver, and part-time mystic, Robert writes at the intersection of empathy, empowerment, and creative thinking. He has studied academic and traditional wisdom for fifteen years. He has degrees from Harvard, Purdue, and Reed College. In early 2014, he began a monthly wisdom workshop in Portland, Oregon.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface What to Expect

Chapter 1 Witness – Communicate – Imagine

Chapter 2 The Planet of the Pre-Shapes

Chapter 3 Binary and Duality – Justice and Symmetry

Chapter 4 Dialectics - Arguments - Triunes - Quadrants

Chapter 5 Norm – Norms – The Normal Curve – Social Science

Chapter 6 Felix the Helix

Chapter 7 Onionology: The Pulsating Heart of Empathy

Chapter 8 Donna Matrix and Communication

Chapter 9 When Systems Collide – The Outsider – Incentives

Chapter 10 Gestalt Perceptual Biases

Chapter 11 Frameworks – Let’s Borrow the Emperor’s New Spectacles

Chapter 12 Angles of Perception – Relationships – Sensory Awareness

Chapter 13 The Blueprint Chapter - Construct Your Own Shape

Appendix A Wisdom and Decision-Making

Appendix B Managing Your Time, Values, and Goals

Appendix C Workbook for Integrity

Appendix D Humor and Wisdom: “I Say Tomato, But You Say Tomato”

Editorial Reviews

06/10/2019

Stonehill, a caregiver and self-proclaimed mystic who provides healing workshops in Portland, Ore., promotes inclusion and empathy in his ambitious but muddled debut, a “thinking manual.” Stonehill uses a model of increasingly complex “shapes of thought,” beginning with what he calls “pre-shapes” of void (or nothingness), background (the historical makeup of one’s perspective), and dot (the initial entry point into any inquiry), and then explores binaries (similar to the Hegelian dialectic), which spin off into numerous other “thought shapes” (including triunes, quadrants, helices, onions, and nonlinear matrices). Stonehill centers most of his analysis on such binaries as social identification vs. outsider identity, differentiation vs. integration, and vertical vs. horizontal concepts of spirituality—to challenge readers to be aware of their own perceptual biases and to take on new perspectives of thought. Unfortunately, Stonehill’s quirky humor (as when he arbitrarily names the onion shape “Larry” and the matrix “Donna”) feels forced. He also often gets lost in conversational asides and fails to show how his core message that “your purpose is to help others” logically proceeds from his presentation of thought shapes. Nevertheless, Stonehill displays deep erudition in this haphazard panoply of ideas for developing empathy. Philosophically minded readers looking for something to chew on will find plenty here. (BookLife)

Publishers Weekly

Silver Medal winner, IP Awards 2019 (Mind Body Spirit)



"...Stonehill displays deep erudition in this haphazard panoply of ideas for developing empathy. Philosophically minded readers looking for something to chew on will find plenty here."

-Publishers Weekly, May 2019

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