Beyond Your Brain: Innovative Strategies for Clearer Thinking

Table of ContentCourse Overview

Life is complicated. Both at work and in our personal lives, we face daily dilemmas requiring complex, critical thought. We sit at our desks and wrack our brains for insight. “Think harder,” we tell ourselves. “Use your head. Focus.” But renowned science writer Annie Murphy Paul argues for another, more inventive solution: thinking outside our heads. In her book The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain, she shares how a host of extra-neural resources can help us focus more effectively, comprehend more deeply, and create more imaginatively. In this course, learn the reasoning behind Paul’s persuasive findings and discover practical strategies for improving your cognition with three outside-the-brain resources: your body, surroundings, and relationships.

Unique Features of the Course

• Interactive Course
• Scenario(s)
• Video(s)
• Knowledge Check(s)
• Quiz

Table to Content

WELCOME

• Introduction
• Use Your Head

THINKING WITH YOUR BODY

• Listen to Your Body
• The Power of Affect Labeling
• Thinking With Movement
• In Defense of Gestures

THINKING WITH YOUR SURROUNDINGS

• The Nature of Thought
• The Privacy Principle
• THINKING WITH YOUR RELATIONSHIPS
• The Super-Powered Social Brain
• Four Principles to Creating “Groupiness”

SUMMARY

• Conclusion
• Quiz

Intended audience

This course is intended for undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as working professionals from all streams/departments/functions.