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Kelsey Robert. The Outside Edge
DEDICATION
INTRODUCTION. DEBUNKING THE OUTSIDER MYTH
PART ONE. THE MAKING OF AN OUTSIDER
1. THE MISFITS
The Lost Tribe
Divorced from Our Surroundings
Are You An Outsider?
Are We More Intelligent, or Less?
2. THE CRISIS OF IDENTITY
The Rejected Changeling
The Battles of Identity
Role Confusion
The Identity Journey
The One in the ABC1 Demographic
Highly-Structured Youth Movements
3. ADOLESCENCE, FAMILY AND OPPORTUNITY
The Timing of Puberty
The Disadvantaged Outsider
The Impact of Self-Esteem
Girls Change Friends, Boys Retreat
Family Scripts
The Dilemma of Choice
Rousseau's Discourse of the Vanities
4. EXISTENTIALISM AND THE NEED FOR A PURPOSE
Hegel's Contradictions
Kierkegaard Adds A Moral Dimension
‘We Are All Too Human,’ Says Nietzsche
Rise of the Superman
We Must Define Ourselves
Condemned To Be Free
Indifference and Meaninglessness
10 Things Existentialists Teach Outsiders
PART TWO. THE REBEL WITH A CAUSE
5. FINDING MEANING
Fearing Failure within Conformity
The Danger of Downward Mobility
The Personal Notion of Suffering
Finding Our Unique Insight
Believing We're Gifted for Something
Setting the Compass
Overly Critical Parents, Siblings and Teachers
10 Signposts Towards Finding Meaning
6. THE PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE
That One Thing
Required: A Growth Mindset
Aristotle's Pursuit of the ‘Good Life’
Excellence within A Community
What Should We do with Our Lives?
The Key Need: Be Incremental
From Little Acorns
7. THE ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT
What Is An Entrepreneur?
A Selfish Enterprise
What Entrepreneurs Are Not
Excellence Doesn't Mean Expertise
Not So Youthful
Timing Matters? Probably Not
Positives to Entrepreneurship
Distilling the Spirit
PART THREE. EDGE AHEAD
8. DEVELOPING OUR CREATIVITY
An Outsider Looking Out
The creative edge
Being Open to Uncertainty
The Art of Thought
A Technique for Producing Ideas
Drowning Creativity: Our Education System
A Hopeful Message for Outsiders
Make Your Creativity Profitable
9. LEARNING TO PITCH
Life's A Pitch
The Principles of Pitching
10. GETTING STRATEGIC
The False Breakthrough
What Is A Strategy?
Good Strategy
The War Analogy
Developing The Right Strategy
Desperate Self-Defeating Behaviour
Helping You ‘Think Different’
11. USING JUDGEMENT
The Emotional Handicap
Making Better Judgements
The Relevance of De Bono
Decision-Making Mistakes
Depersonalization – A Key Aspect of Judgement
PART FOUR. THE WRONG VOICES
12. AVOIDING NEGATIVITY
Self-Deprecation as a Defence
Countering Negativity Using CBT
Two Outsiders Clash
Maslow and Motivation
The Positivity of Negativity
Could Stoicism be the Answer?
A Riposte to Gladwell
A 10-Point Plan for Adopting Stoicism
13. THE DANGER OF EXTREMISM
Radicalism and the Outsider
Terrorism's Infantile and Narcissistic Roots
A Seductive Proposition
Blind to Realities
An Enabling Romanticism
Dealing with Prejudice
14. UTILIZING (CONSTRUCTIVE) SOCIOPATHY
An Exercise in Sociopathy
Sociopathic Roots
Constructive Sociopathy
Hare's Psychopath Checklist
The Psychopath's Advantage?
Thatcher: the Psychopath?
Generating Enmity – the Psychopath's Fate
The Power of Synergizing
CONCLUSION. AN EXTRAORDINARY VANTAGE POINT
An Unrepentant Individualist
No Tribe or Clan, no Club or Conference
The Danger of Recruitment
The Curse of Being Cool
The Trap of Revenge
An Extraordinary Vantage Point
10 RULES FOR OUTSIDERS TO OBEY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ABOUT ROBERT KELSEY
