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by Auke Jacominus Schade (Author)
Two and halve thousand years ago, the Chinese philosopher Lao Zi wrote Dao De Jing. This means The Way of Nature (physics) and the Way of People (psychology). The aim of Dao De Jing and nemonik thinking is to maximize your success, which is to obtain what you seek and escape what you suffer. Success is secular and based on competence, rather than devotion. Lao Zi suggests that psychology should be based on physics in order to achieve lasting success. Dao De Jing is written for insiders who know about Lao Zi's underlying philosophy. The secret information you need to maximize your success is hidden behind aphorisms and poetic beauty. Furthermore, his manuscript has no rational sequence such as an introduction, main body, and discussion. Even the division of the manuscript in the parts Dao and De is ambiguous. Topics concerning the Way of Nature and the Way of People appear almost ad random in the parts Dao and De. Lao Zi's unfamiliar format suggests that he used a holistic, rather than a rational approach. He seems to walk around the topic, while telling the reader what he is seeing from different angles. Although that approach enhances the mystery of that amazing manuscript, it did not produce the most efficient teaching tool. Therefore, I have used the nemonik template to restructure Dao De Jing for nemonik thinkers. This template was introduced in (Schade, Think Smarter with Nemonik Thinking, 2016). The brutal reality shows that our way of thinking is failing. Humanity is facing overpopulation, dwindling, resources, pollution, climate change, and constant warfare. Lao Zi's wisdom is a guiding light that reaches peacefully across the boundaries of race, religion, spiritualism, ideology, and science. Free PDF copies @ http: //nemonik-thinking.org/books.html
Author Biography
My life started during the devastation of World War II. As a teenager, I worked as a carpenter and studied building engineering at night school. During the seventies, I became a financial manager for a multinational corporation, ran my own business, and studied economics in my spare time. My interest in the psychology of management extended to the interaction between the mind, body, and reality. In 1980, I immigrated to New Zealand where I obtained a doctorate in psychology from the University of Auckland. My mission is to make people the smartest thinkers they can be, which has led me to the development of nemonik thinking.
