All 13 Uses
spontaneous
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Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell
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- The spontaneous decision to argue with that same co-worker is made unconsciously—by a different part of the brain and motivated by a different part of your personality.†
Chpt Intr.spontaneous = behaving in an instinctive, uninhibited manner OR happening naturally (without planning or external force)
- Blink is concerned with ... those instantaneous impressions and conclusions that spontaneously arise whenever we meet a new person or confront a complex situation or have to make a decision under conditions of stress.
Chpt Intr. *spontaneously = naturally (without plan)
- It's also a powerful predictor of how we act in certain kinds of spontaneous situations.†
Chpt 3spontaneous = behaving in an instinctive, uninhibited manner OR happening naturally (without planning or external force)
- Paul Van Riper's Big Victory: Creating Structure for Spontaneity†
Chpt 4spontaneity = behavior or action that happens naturally without planning or external force
- The Structure of Spontaneity†
Chpt 4
- Basketball is an intricate, high-speed game filled with split-second, spontaneous decisions.†
Chpt 4spontaneous = behaving in an instinctive, uninhibited manner OR happening naturally (without planning or external force)
- But that spontaneity is possible only when everyone first engages in hours of highly repetitive and structured practice—perfecting their shooting, dribbling, and passing and running plays over and over again—and agrees to play a carefully defined role on the court.†
Chpt 4spontaneity = behavior or action that happens naturally without planning or external force
- This is the critical lesson of improv, too, and it is also a key to understanding the puzzle of Millennium Challenge: spontaneity isn't random.†
Chpt 4
- He created the conditions for successful spontaneity.†
Chpt 4
- What Reilly and his team at Cook County were trying to do, in short, was provide some structure for the spontaneity of the ER.†
Chpt 4
- And Vic Braden discovered that while people are very willing and very good at volunteering information explaining their actions, those explanations, particularly when it comes to the kinds of spontaneous opinions and decisions that arise out of the unconscious, aren't necessarily correct.†
Chpt 5spontaneous = behaving in an instinctive, uninhibited manner OR happening naturally (without planning or external force)
- By contrast, if you were to smile spontaneously, in the presence of genuine emotion, you would not only flex your zygomatic but also tighten the orbicularis oculi, pars orbitalis, which is the muscle that encircles the eye.†
Chpt 6spontaneously = happening in a natural manner without planning or external force
- Hoving valued the fruits of spontaneous thinking so much that he took special steps to make sure his early impressions were as good as possible.†
Chpt Cncl.spontaneous = behaving in an instinctive, uninhibited manner OR happening naturally (without planning or external force)
Definitions:
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(1)
(spontaneous) happening naturally, suddenly, or without outside planning or action
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)