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Title: Powered by Instinct: 5 Rules for Trusting Your Guts by Kathy Kolbe ISBN: 0-9717999-1-1 Publisher: Monumentus Press Pub. Date: October, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.18 (11 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: One major flaw!!
Comment: Judging from the other reviews, this book contains some interesting information, but I couldn't get past page ten because the author keeps talking about instinct when it's quite obvious that she means intuition. You'd think that an author who is going to devote a book to one subject would know the proper definition of that subject, but apparently not.
If you want a good book on intuition, I'd suggest A STILL, SMALL VOICE by Echo Bodine.
I was thinking of donating this POWERED BY INSTINCT book to the local library, but that would mean that I'd be helping to mislead others, so I plan to throw it into a nearby river.
Rating: 5
Summary: Harness your hunches with this excellent book
Comment: Capturing your Instincts
How many times have you looked back over a decision you made and said, "I knew better than to do that! Something in my gut told me not to do it." Oh, I've been there plenty of times. How do we harness that instinct, that gut feel that can guide us on a better path through life? Author Kathy Kolbe has a set of five rules to harness the hunch and a set of "think-ercises" to retrain your behavior. This is brilliant. In fact, this is one of the best self-improvement books I have ever read. I am serious!
The five rules are:
1.Act-before you think (scary!)
2.Self-provoke (stimulate your instincts)
3.Commit, but to very little
4.Be obstinate in overcoming obstacles
5.Do nothing when nothing works (stop beating that head against the wall.)
I am especially impressed with Kolbe's visualization chart of the Creative Process. This is quite different than the creative exercises I learned in the past. Kolbe's process involves charting first motivation, then your inner talents, drives and energy, then your will and its commitment to the goal, followed by the reasoning and rationalization process to justify the action, and finally the behavior. This is not acting WITHOUT thinking; instead it is acting with a follow-through of self-examination that combines your subconscious hunches with rational thought and experiential data.
I also like the question set about instinct when something "feels wrong":
1.Is it the way you are approaching a task?
2.Do you feel you've done something wrong?
3.Are you feeling sick or run-down?
4.Does the way another person responds to you make you uncomfortable?
5.Is there something physically unsafe about your situation?
6.Are you ill at east with the way things are happening?
Look at the above list and look how that applies to so many situations in life. Let's take the decision to ride home with a friend after a party. If your feeling is you shouldn't get in the car, examine if you feel something is unsafe. Perhaps the friend had a few too many drinks. This list would be a good exercise to train teenagers to act on their inner voice of conscience, something to harness their good sense and channel it to better decisions. And of course, this list is essential for looking at your daily work life and perhaps deciding to move on to find other opportunities before you are forced by the situation to do so. This list alone would help you stay ahead of the wave of circumstance.
I think nearly everyone could profit from "Powered by Instinct." If you know someone in the job market or going through a life-changing event, this would make a wonderful gift to him or her-or to yourself.
Rating: 4
Summary: A different angle for bringing out your best
Comment: In "Powered by Instinct" Kathy Kolbe brings together years of research into a cohesive test that examines "innate talents" instead of learned abilities. She takes the view that while there are many learned behaviors that change over time and the personality itself may change over time, there are basic innate abilities that do not change. The Kolbe system examines methods of problem solving that she considers instinctual and therefore unchanging. Each one of these methods is not better or worse than another but are just the ones that a particular person may use. Once you know the methods that various people use you can ensure that you have the right mix of people when pursuing creative problem solving. Group interaction and problem solving is not the only use for the Kolbe Index. Once you know your innate abilities and problem solving methods you can pinpoint your strengths and weaknesses. From this information you can determine the best profession for you to enter and other important life decisions. The Kolbe System is gaining momentum as an accurate method of forecasting how people will react under various circumstances and becoming more popular as a psychological evaluation tool. "Powered by Instinct" brings the basic tenets of this system to the average reader from the original developer of the system. "Powered by Instinct" is a recommended read.
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Title: The Conative Connection : Acting on Instinct by Kathy Kolbe ISBN: 0201570955 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 01 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Pure Instinct: : Business' Untapped Resource by Kathy Kolbe ISBN: 0812920694 Publisher: Crown Pub. Date: 28 December, 1993 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Breaking the Rules, Removing the Obstacles to Effortless High Performance by Kurt Wright, Donn Bruns, W. George Meredith ISBN: 0961438339 Publisher: CPM Publishing Pub. Date: 15 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Power To Connect by Teresa Easler ISBN: 0973265701 Publisher: Inspire Media Inc. Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.50 |
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Title: Goals: How to Get Everything You Want-Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible by Brian Tracy ISBN: 1576752356 Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Pub Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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