Danute Debney Shaw - How the Tin Man Found His Brain: One Attorneys Path for Perceptual Development

HOW THE
TIN MAN
FOUND HIS
BRAIN

One Attorneys Path for Perceptual Development

By DANUTE DEBNEY SHAW

Cover Illustration and Graphics by Jon C. Munso n II

Copyright 2020 By Danute Debney Shaw.

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ISBN: 978-1-9822-4114-8 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-9822-4113-1 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-9822-4112-4 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2020902888

Balboa Press rev. date: 07/14/2020

CONTENTS

Author Alice Hoffman is famous for her quip: Once you know some things, you cant unknow them. Its a burden that can never be given away.

Danute Debney Shaws Tin Man takes Hoffmans burden and turns it into an asset for use in our personal and professional lives. With a superb story-telling approach Ms. Debney Shaw walks the Tin Man through self-discovery, leading us to a process for decision-making with family, friends, and collea gues.

Hers is a process not for survival, but to thrive. If your circumstances are making you feel hopeless, if your personal or professional barriers or dilemmas seem insurmountable, Tin Man will help lead you to a path of introspection and pause; and with your newfound light and wisdom, will help you see a strategy for moving forward, and engaging the power of ch oice.

Tin Man is great story telling with a purpose. Keep reading, because it unfolds a strategy that sees the end first, then guides in thinking through the process(es) to get t here.

It gets better as you go. Tin Man brings the equation to life of Vision + Organization + Management = Stronger, More Focused Results. Read Tin Man and you will see how awareness and forethought can help you save time, energy and mental pain; to act from a position of strength, formed from information and insight, and influenced by wi sdom.

Use her ideas for broadening conscious awareness; they will serve as rust solvent on your rusting tin man p arts.

Arthur Humph ries

Former Navy Commander, US government adv isor,

business executive, consultant, and community le ader

L. Frank Baums series of Oz books included a wonderful Tin Man many of us have come to know and love in, The Wizard of Oz. He, and indeed all of the four main characters, were in search of something they felt lacking within themselves: a brain; a heart; courage; a feeling of home. As it turns out they all found that they already possessed the very thing they were questing after, a heart, a brain, courage and a home.

The Tin Man was a sensitive soul, and would indeed start to rust whenever he became emotionally affected, because he would often begin to cry. Though fearful, he at times had quite good ideas that came into his mind. Yet he was always pursuing the one thing that was most important to him, and which he believed would make him whole , a heart. Why did he, so sensitive a character, believe he was missing a heart? Because when you knocked on his tin chest, the sound was hollow. When the Wizard, of the Wizard of Oz gave him a heart shaped watch the Tin Man believed himself to be complete. It made a lovely ticking sound which he now felt would be a part of him representing his h eart.

Dont we often do the same thing? Seek outside of ourselves what we already possess? Lack the brain awareness of knowing it is already there? Not fully utilizing or even acknowledging the resources we are already in possession of, our heart and mind? Our intuitive, rational and creative resources? That we truly are whole and that our heart and brain are the sources of a great deal of knowledge, despite the fact that we so often keep dismissing them because sometimes they dont fit the convention. The Tin Man is not the only character we will run into, but others real and imagined as well: if not on a specific quest then also seeking in some ways within the essays and commentaries found in this book.

While we can describe imagination and perceptual awareness in logical, rational terms, we dont reach the imaginative or intuitive process by reasoned thinking. The new and unknown, the aha of discovery often comes to us in revelatory, even disjointed ways, and only afterwards can that aha be defined or justified by the rigors that only a cognitive, rational analysis prov ides.

If creative inspirations need to be rationally deconstructed in order to be justifiably relied upon within the general conventions of our world, it however, does not follow that using your perceptual awareness and creativity to develop an answer or understanding must lead to an illogical conclusion. The creative inspiration has simply entered our mind in an a-logical manner. Using imagination and perceptual awareness as discussed in this book, simply brings additional tools to the rational understanding we all generally rely upon.

This book is about coming to awareness, about the conscious use and integration of resources we all have. Further, it hopes to suggest that we actually try on for size a paradigmatic shift, and explore our own journey through our personal lives and our work, by building a relationship with ourselves first. That we listen to and hear through the intuitive process first. For isnt that how our best ideas and insights often arrive? It is to suggest that we consciously habituate ourselves to allow the intuitive process to come in FIRST. Then we can go into our rational think-it-through approach. Finally, as a third step we can use our imagination and inspiration; our subjective awareness and emotional intelligence to develop a solution to the challenges or decisions to be made in life.

As we will see in our exploration, this proposed combination has so often provided the platform for strong decision-making in the professional and personal life strategies of successful people. The examples found here illustrate in dramatic and very mundane ways how the stories of our work and our lives can develop with such an approach. This book contains instances of discovery through listening and observation, even at times while under stress with little apparent option. Individuals represented here doing so, are shown experiencing greater personal understanding; assimilation of more clues around them and, insight into the possibilities of how to engage their discoveries in order to put those discoveries to work. Thus, finding the next steps in the on-going development of life.