Timothy D. Wilson

Golf Ball Hunting (The bathroom book about the small game of the big game) takes a humorous and entertaining perspective of the lost and found golf ball. The lost ball is the nemesis of every golfer, in any round of golf. It is the loss of a stroke, loss of money and loss of confidence in your game. Wilson walks you through a virtual scavenger hunt for a misguided (pun intended) golf ball, with tips and tricks to find golf balls for profit or just for fun. You'll find yourself laughing out loud as the author describes his adventures and experiences when hunting for the elusive lost spheroids;You'll understand search techniques and golf ball hunting safety. Discover where to find the lost golf ball "honey holes" in the darkest corners of the rough, woods and marsh, just off the lush fairway of every golf course, and how these lost balls are like finding "free money", at every turn, hook and slice. Learn interesting golf ball factoids and information regarding the impact of lost balls on the environment. This book spans the imaginative side of life, from the balls point of view, and more serious comments on the negative impact these lost balls have on Mother Earth. The reader has the chance to delve into the mind of a golf ball hunter and feel how hunting (and finding) golf balls brings satisfaction to your life by recovering balls that appear from distant golfer lands, and research the balls with unusual tattoos, such as "Joe's bachelor party 1969", or other intriguing logos. Discovering a lost ball brings joy and excitement to the new adopted golf ball parent (i.e., Golfer) and the formerly orphaned ball who may have the opportunity to land on a fairway or see the bottom of the pin cup again. Maybe that newly found ball will be the one that finally makes that "hole in one".

What if there were a magic pill that could make you happier, turn you into a better parent, solve a number of your teenager's behavior problems, reduce racial prejudice, and close the achievement gap in education? There is no such pill, but story editing -- the scientifically based approach described in Redirect -- can accomplish all of this. The world-renowned psychologist Timothy Wilson shows us how to redirect the stories we tell about ourselves and the world around us, with subtle prompts, in ways that lead to lasting change. Fascinating, groundbreaking, and practical, Redirect demonstrates the remarkable power small changes can have on the ways we see ourselves and our environment, and how we can use this in our everyday lives. "There are few academics who write with as much grace and wisdom as Timothy Wilson. Redirect is a masterpiece." -- Malcolm Gladwell

Hvordan kan positiv psykologi bruges pædagogisk? Hvordan kan positiv psykologi skabe optimale læringsmiljøer? Positiv psykologi sætter fokus på glæde, trivsel, lykke og det gode liv. Antologien præsenterer den positive psykologis bagvedliggende teori og de deraf følgende pædagogiske implikationer i forhold til optimale læringsmiljøer, ledelse, undervisning, læring og arbejdsliv. Antologien henvender sig primært til lærere, pædagoger, psykologer, ledere og studerende.

"Know thyself," a precept as old as Socrates, is still good advice. But is introspection the best path to self-knowledge? What are we trying to discover, anyway? In an eye-opening tour of the unconscious, as contemporary psychological science has redefined it, Timothy D. Wilson introduces us to a hidden mental world of judgments, feelings, and motives that introspection may never show us. This is not your psychoanalyst's unconscious. The adaptive unconscious that empirical psychology has revealed, and that Wilson describes, is much more than a repository of primitive drives and conflict-ridden memories. It is a set of pervasive, sophisticated mental processes that size up our worlds, set goals, and initiate action, all while we are consciously thinking about something else. If we don't know ourselves—our potentials, feelings, or motives—it is most often, Wilson tells us, because we have developed a plausible story about ourselves that is out of touch with our adaptive unconscious. Citing evidence that too much introspection can actually do damage, Wilson makes the case for better ways of discovering our unconscious selves. If you want to know who you are or what you feel or what you're like, Wilson advises, pay attention to what you actually do and what other people think about you. Showing us an unconscious more powerful than Freud's, and even more pervasive in our daily life, Strangers to Ourselves marks a revolution in how we know ourselves.