TAG: thinking
Belief & Technique For Modern Prose: List of Essentials
30 suggestions from Jack Kerouac
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Powells.com Interviews Steven Johnson
"That's the natural mode that my brain seems to work in. When I see a problem, I think, How does this connect up and down? That pushes you into other disciplines."
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Free Will: Now You Have It, Now You Don't
"Experiments suggest that the conscious choice is an illusion, but some philosophers and physicists choose to disagree."
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"The best things cannot be told because they transcend thought."
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"In an age of microscopic technologies and sweeping Google-earth panoramas, Will Wright, the world's most successful video-game inventor, has set out to create game (or is it the art form?) that will teach us how to really see."
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"The following eight strategies encourage you to think productively, rather than reproductively, in order to arrive at solutions to problems."
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Observations from the first few months of blogging.
"Inner blogging: your mind becomes a blog, and your sensory impressions are the posts. Your entire life seems like an ongoing "blog" of sorts. Blogging is then like praying. You are constantly "publishing" new "posts" to your inner consciousness."
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On blogging: "I don't consider this writing, I consider this thinking."
What It Means To Be An Intellectual
"What is "this drive"? It's the tendency to not simply accept things as they are but to want to think about them, to understand them."
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Most Designers aren't Design Thinkers - Yet
"The shorthand of “design thinking� gathers a set of skills and perspectives that correlate to increased design maturity framing and solving problems, instead of designing function, form, and style."
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The definitive collection of idea generation methods
"This website lists and explains every idea generation method I've encountered during the past 15 years."
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Essential Resources for Creativity (163 techniques + 30 tips + books!)
"Techniques (163 of them!) by Mycoted should help you with creative thinking - those are the toolbox for you when you get stuck on developing your ideas."
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What creativity is for Steve jobs? It is all about experience connectivity
"When you ask a creative person how they did something, they may feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after awhile. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had
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In order to do a better job of developing, communicating, and pursuing a strategy, the head of Ideo says, you need to learn to think like a designer. Here's his five-point plan for how to make the leap.
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The Examined Life: Cultivating Self-Reflection and the Return of Socratic Thinking
"Self-reflective thinking is making a comeback in school curricula and the homeschooling movement, and it also seems to succeed on standardized tests of achievement and problem solving assessments."
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"But the minute you think you know, the minute you go - oh, yeah, we've been here before, no sense reinventing the wheel - you stop learning, stop questioning, and start believing in your own wisdom, you're dead."
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Twelve Ways to Think Differently
Twelve methods that will exercise parts of your brain that rarely get it, and make you more creative and better able to understand the world.
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Too Much Knowledge Can Be Bad For Some Types Of Memory, Study Finds
"The results show how some types of memory might be better when people forget what they know and instead approach a subject with a child-like sense of naïveté."
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identity crisis: the curse/joy of being interdisciplinary and the future of academia
apophenia: "It will not be possible to label the next round of revolutionary scholars and they won't be trapped up in conversations and defining disciplines or securing methods. "
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Is pop culture dumbing us down or smartening us up?
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New Republic: "Practice may not make perfect, but it enables an experienced person to arrive at conclusions more quickly than a neophyte. The expert's snap judgment is the result of a deliberative process made unconscious through habituation."
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Using tablet PC to take notes using mind maps
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Independent Individuals and Wise Crowds, or Is It Possible to Be Too Connected?
Cory Doctorow's transcript of James Surowicki's ETECH presentation on Wisdom of Crowds
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Here are some hints on how to construct a mind map.
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The Register: "Schoolchildren are developing a "problem-solving deficit disorder", and losing the ability to analyze."
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