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Smart Jamie. The Little Book of Clarity
Preface
Introduction
PART ONE. The Essential Foundations
1. Misunderstanding: The Hidden Trap
The hidden hamster wheel
2. The Power of Insight
3. How Perception is Created
4. The Power of Principles
The principles of flight
The factory settings
Context-sensitive
5. The Psychological Immune System
The tip of the iceberg
Fearful thinking
Your psychological immune system
Rumble strips
6. Habitual Thought Patterns
The river still flows
7. Stress: The Source and the Solution
The source of stress
The light's better here
The solution to stress
8. The Ultimate Leverage Point
Hallucinations
Level 1 – Material reality
Level 2 – The content of thinking (i.e. what you're thinking about)
Level 3 – The structure of thinking
Level 4 – The nature of THOUGHT
PART TWO. The Deep Drivers
9. Innate Clarity and Peace of Mind
Your understanding of how life works
You have innate clarity and peace of mind
10. Creativity and Disruptive Innovation
Disruptive innovation
The gap
11. Authenticity: Your True Identity
12. Intuition: Navigating by Wisdom
13. Toxic Goals and Authentic Desires
The two million pound security blanket
14. The Power of Presence
Being present
Clear mind, more time
15. Resilience
Life is not a problem to be solved
16. Connection and Relationships
Listening to be impacted
Two worlds in one
PART THREE. The Way Forward
17. There's Only One Problem
18. Penicillin for the Mind
The infinite elevator
Penicillin for the mind
19. Do Nothing
20. The Leadership Delusion
Beating the bell curve
21. Living a Life You Love
A practical example
Appreciation
Gratitude
Don't try to figure it out
Understanding is a rational goal
Pause when agitated
Look to the source
You don't need to be vigilant
Be kind to yourself
Lighten up
Follow your wisdom
The power of principles revisited
22. Capitalizing on Chaos, Complexity and Uncertainty
The current wave-shift
Early signs of the 4th wave
Understanding the nature of THOUGHT
The experience economy
The critical 4th-wave factor
23. The Art of Sustainable Change
Separate realities
24. Inspired Action
Acknowledgments
Further Explorations
CLARITY®
Clarity certification programmes
Clarity coaching, 1:1 intensives and retreats
Clarity open programmes
Corporate programmes
Sports
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This book's predecessor, CLARITY: Clear Mind, Better Performance, Bigger Results, evoked a “Marmite” response when it was launched in early 2013. Many people loved CLARITY (the book became an international number 1 bestseller, a gratifying response for any author). But while the majority of Amazon reviewers gave the book 5 stars, explaining how CLARITY had transformed their lives, a full 10 % of reviewers gave the book 1 star, with criticisms ranging from “too simplistic” to “too complicated” and various points in between.
This polarity was not unexpected. I've been sharing the principles behind clarity with individuals and groups since 2009, and the response to the book mirrors those of my public speaking audiences. In fact, it's quite predictable given the core message of CLARITY – that a clear mind is your natural state, and there's nothing you need to do to clear it; that our misguided attempts to clear the mind often result in more of what was clouding them in the first place. This assertion flies in the face of the personal development norm of telling people “what and how to think and do” in order to have the results you desire.
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Understanding these principles takes things off your mind rather than giving you more to think about.
The revelation that the mind is a self-correcting system resonated deeply with many people. Liverpool striker, Daniel Sturridge, scored his first Premier League hat-trick against Fulham in May 2013, then arrived at his post-match interview carrying a copy of CLARITY. One of my clients, Bluecrest Health Screening, started including a CLARITY Quotient section in their screenings, empowering corporate clients to take charge of their engagement and stress levels. Demand for training in the principles behind clarity has continued to increase, and a growing community of professionals are being certified as clarity coaches, practitioners and trainers.
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