| Preface | p. 9 |
| Climate for Creativity | p. 11 |
| Unique Angles of Vision | p. 12 |
| To Bend Over and Look | p. 13 |
| Basic Assumptions | p. 14 |
| On Conventional Wisdoms | p. 15 |
| Let Us Praise Illusion | p. 17 |
| To Blossom or Not to Blossom | p. 20 |
| Projections and Prospects | p. 22 |
| Postscript | p. 24 |
| Some Basic Tools | p. 27 |
| What Is a Fact? | p. 27 |
| Basic Assumptions Therapy | p. 31 |
| Facts versus Assumptions | p. 33 |
| Do-It-Yourself Kits 1 | p. 35 |
| "Perchance to Dream" | p. 38 |
| Crap Detecting as a Way of Life | p. 39 |
| Some Things I Do to Get Things Done | p. 41 |
| Motivation and Health | p. 44 |
| Journaling | p. 45 |
| Duo-logging | p. 47 |
| Letter Writing as a Portal to Self-Development | p. 49 |
| Listening with a Third Ear | p. 52 |
| Question as Tool | p. 55 |
| Random Processes | p. 59 |
| Self-Fulfilling and Self-Deceiving Prophecies | p. 61 |
| On Deception | p. 63 |
| Learning Styles | p. 65 |
| What Is Learning? | p. 65 |
| Learning as a Subversive Activity | p. 71 |
| Distance Learning and the Internet | p. 75 |
| Linking with the Internet | p. 78 |
| Objectivity versus Subjectivity? | p. 80 |
| Theory and Practice | p. 83 |
| To Saw a Board | p. 85 |
| Handling Tools | p. 88 |
| Learning in the Marketplace | p. 89 |
| Aging with Dignity | p. 91 |
| Your Own Passages | p. 95 |
| Three Cheers for Enthusiasm | p. 95 |
| Your Enthusiasm Quotient | p. 98 |
| New Learning Styles for Traditional Institutions | p. 99 |
| Paradox, Irony, and Freedom (to Laugh) | p. 108 |
| Paucity and Audacity | p. 108 |
| Fairfield's Laws | p. 111 |
| Your Paradox Quotient (PQ) | p. 114 |
| Fables | p. 115 |
| Do-It-Yourself Kits 2 | p. 117 |
| How to Make a Cake | p. 118 |
| More Tooling Up | p. 119 |
| Potpourri of Decalogues | p. 120 |
| Decalogue for Survival of Teachers in the Public School | p. 122 |
| Decalogue for College Faculty | p. 122 |
| Your Personal Commandments | p. 125 |
| Jester Letters | p. 126 |
| Hand-ling Foot-notes | p. 132 |
| The Search for Quotients | p. 134 |
| Serious Needs to Be Playful | p. 135 |
| Spell Checks on the Computer | p. 136 |
| Fun Queries ... Whimsicology | p. 136 |
| Words with a Hue (or to Hew?) | p. 139 |
| Highways to Laughter | p. 140 |
| Acronyms | p. 141 |
| FUN-ny Names | p. 141 |
| License Plate "Numbers" Observed | p. 141 |
| More Words with Hues or to Be Hewn | p. 142 |
| Questions with a Hue! | p. 143 |
| More Pun-Americanism | p. 143 |
| Sounds and Furies | p. 144 |
| Book and Film Titles | p. 144 |
| Family Expressions | p. 145 |
| "Well! Fan Me with a Brick!" | p. 145 |
| Beneath the Bottom Line | p. 148 |
| Creative Polyphrenia/Multiple Awareness | p. 149 |
| An Anatomy of Dissent | p. 153 |
| The Self-Deceiving Prophecy Revisited 2 | p. 155 |
| The Paradox of Freedom | p. 156 |
| The Half-Life of a Question | p. 158 |
| Your Queries | p. 161 |
| Favorite Unasked Questions | p. 161 |
| Lost Questions | p. 162 |
| What Is Your Favorite Unasked Question? | p. 163 |
| Zen and the Art of Hustling | p. 163 |
| Zen and Other Arts | p. 166 |
| Postage Due | p. 167 |
| Mood Pieces | p. 171 |
| Zen and Housekeeping | p. 173 |
| The Artistic Impulse | p. 176 |
| Darwin and Creativity Theory | p. 177 |
| Art as a Survival Imperative | p. 179 |
| Haiku and You | p. 182 |
| Doing Haiku | p. 186 |
| Grooks Anonymous: Dogged and Dog-Legged Doggerel | p. 187 |
| Clerihews | p. 192 |
| New Uses for the Muse | p. 194 |
| Red Coals, Black Ivy | p. 198 |
| The Poem-Letter | p. 202 |
| Spontaneity and Being | p. 206 |
| Sense Deprivation and Enhancement | p. 209 |
| Odd Angles of Vision | p. 213 |
| Why "Odd"?/When "Odd"?/How "Odd"? | p. 213 |
| Uniqueness and the Individual | p. 217 |
| Social Change and the Quiet Revolution | p. 223 |
| The Editor as Leveler | p. 225 |
| Career as Thing/Object! | p. 225 |
| Who Are You? | p. 227 |
| Social Courage and Action | p. 227 |
| Short Story as Opportunity | p. 228 |
| Now Try It! | p. 230 |
| Of Storytelling | p. 230 |
| Never to Forget! | p. 233 |
| Illusion: Friend, Enemy, or Both? | p. 235 |
| Emulating Leonardo | p. 239 |
| Illusion, Rhetoric, and Disillusion? | p. 240 |
| Epilogue: Count UP to Inspire | p. 243 |
| A Do-It-Yourself Re-FIRE-ment Kit | p. 246 |
| Working Bibliography | p. 251 |
| Index | p. 255 |
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