We live in a world of ever more change and choice, a world where we have far more opportunity than ever to achieve our potential. That kind of world is enormously exciting, and full of options. But it is also highly disorienting, threatening to overwhelm us with sensory and mental overload.
In that kind of world, the ability to provide persistent context becomes paradoxically ever more valuable. Persistent context helps to orient us and connect us in ways that can accelerate our efforts to achieve our potential.
Research has caught on "tape" the moment of insight that comes to us in a daydreaming state of mind. These are the proverbial "aha," "eureka!" or "light bulb" moments of discovery that come to us whether it's something simple like suddenly remembering the name of an old friend or some truly innovative insight like the key to a new computer program. In these moments of insight, "EEG recordings revealed a distinctive flash of gamma waves emanating from the brain's right hemisphere . . . one-third of a second before a volunteer experienced their conscious moment of insight," writes Robert Lee Hotz in an article on the creative problem-solving attributes of daydreaming in the Wall Street Journal.
want to share hard-won “a ha!” moments in clear and simple language. Even math shortcuts can be fun, I promise.
Neuroscientists have opened the door to these scenarios: They’ve identified a signal that indicates when the brain is primed to remember one particular thing—images of scenes. (Hey, it’s a start.)
I've had to persuade myself to believe in the impossible more often. In the past several decades I've encountered a series of ideas that I was conditioned to think were impossibilities, but which turned out to be good practical ideas.
You might be a little tired of hearing 'content is king'. And it's increasingly difficult to make content stand out online. But a few sites are leading the way with their innovative use of data. There's the Guardian Datablog, Information is Beautiful and the ubiquitous OK Trends to name but a few.
But sites like these are still in the minority. So there's ample opportunity to turn data into links. But first you need to know...
Henry David Thoreau said, "As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives." The emerging interdisciplinary field of cultural neuroscience deals with daily social realities and how they can affect individual members of a culture—perhaps a startup culture.
“The universe is made of stories, not atoms,” poet Muriel Rukeyser famously proclaimed. The stories we tell ourselves and each other are how we make sense of the world and our place in it. Some stories become so sticky, so pervasive that we internalize them to a point where we no longer see their storiness — they become not one of many lenses on reality, but reality itself.
One of my primary goals in business is to help organizations acquire insight. Insight is a clear, and sometimes surprisingly sudden, understanding of a complex situation. Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, “A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.” Paul Gauguin shut his “eyes in order to see.” Kahil Gibran believed that, “Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.”
The main problem is that there is still some debate about what critical thinking skills are. Some of it goes down to formal logic. Many people think that thinking critically means understanding logical implications and their validity or lack thereof. A lot of people use bad logic to convince opponents of their point, and being able to see around this faulty reasoning is key to being able to see what arguments are spurious.
Read more: http://scienceray.com/philosophy-of-science/critical-thinking-skills/#ixzz1chkPYEBd
What the Internet is hiding from us - Will Google's blind faith in the algorithm doom its future?
Sense-making consists of both asking and telling. It’s a continuing series of conversations. We know that conversation is the main way that tacit knowledge gets shared. So we continuously seek out explicit knowledge, in the form of written work or other knowledge artifacts left by others. We then have conversations around these artifacts to make sense of them. Finally, we share new, explicit knowledge artifacts which then grow our bodies of knowledge. Sharing closes the circle, because being a personal knowledge manager is every professional’s part of the social learning contract.