Think! Before It's Too Late

“Why is ‘thinking’ important? awareness — seeing the road ahead

Because without thinking we can only act in the following ways:

1. Act purely on instinct like insects.

2. Repeat the usual routines.

3. Do what someone else > decides > and orders.

4. Follow the emotion of the moment.” — Edward de Bono

If you don’t design your own life THEN someone else will do it for you!!!

The Alternative to Tyranny

Dealing with risk and uncertainty

Everyday thinking is what fills in the time when you are neither asleep nor dead.

Thinking is that waste of time between SEEING something and “knowing” what to do about it.

Knowing what to do

The purpose of thinking is to deliver to you the values you seek … continue

“If you do not care
to understand something,
then you must borrow an explanation
from someone else (and they will deceive you)
or do without one.” continue

Dealing with risk and uncertainty ↓

What thinking is needed — now or later? ↑ ↓

Now and then the ‘edge effect’

Edward de Bono interview (12+ minutes) #audioplayback

Wisdom is largely about ‘broadening’ perception

… to know something important … (#sda on memo)

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Finding and selecting the pieces

Connect, connect, connect

Getting a broader view !!! helicopter

DEALING WITH RISK AND UNCERTAINTY ↑ ↓

Most of the mistakes in thinking are mistakes in perception. an exploration #sda

SEEING only part of the situation — insufficient #information

Topics vs. realities ::: larger view ↓

Three types of broad — width, depth, richness

Once you see something you can’t unsee it

JUDGEMENT → Attention-directing frameworks

Now and then the ‘edge effect’ ↑

It’s easy to get lost without a map ↑

Creating a better “map” ↓

The patterning system of the mind — the NEED for MANY competing patterns

Finding and selecting the pieces of the puzzle ↓

“Alternatives don’t have to show themselves” ↓

A big really picture

A smaller element ↓

“The terms knowledge industries, knowledge work and knowledge worker are nearly fifty (sixty, seventy, eighty) years old.

They were coined around 1960, simultaneously but independently— the first by a Princeton economist, Fritz Machlup, the second and third by this writer.

Now everyone uses them, but as yet hardly anyone understands their implications for human values and human behavior, for managing people and making them productive, for economics, and for politics.” — PFD

The Second Curve — missing the turn to the future

The World: A Brief Introduction

Books by Walter Wriston

Technology is about work: the specifically human activity by means of which man pushes back the limitations of the iron biological law which condemns all other animals to devote all their time and energy to keeping themselves alive for the next day, if not for the next hour.

“A change as tremendous as … doesn’t just satisfy existing wants, or replace things we are now doing.

It creates new wants and makes new things possible.”

Knowledge and technology

No surprises

Long years of profound changes

The Five Deadly Sins

A FREEDOM brainroad

T. George Harris — civil rights, politics, business, psychology, careers, self-development, health and spirituality

Celebrating the life of Peter Drucker — audio by Rick Warren

Things don’t alway work out as expected. What are the implications for those impacted?

The voyage of the St. Louis 1939

The really bad guys don’t always get what they deserve

The good guys don’t always carry out their obligations

Intelligence, information, thinking

If you never change your mind, why have one?

Have a sign on your desk which says:

‘Same thinking as yesterday, last year or ten years ago.’ — life experience

Parallel Thinking

Water Logic — what does something lead to?

Think! Before It's Too Late

Practical Thinking — The black cylinder experiment and the world surrounding you

Textbook of Wisdom — if you can SEE the road ahead …

Attention directing frameworks — a place in the mind

Intelligence ::: Information ::: Thinking combo pdf

Three types of intelligence

Dealing with risk and uncertainty

Information: Search not Think

Windows of Opportunity

Information and Decisions

What Everybody Knows Is Frequently Wrong

Time-life Navigation Insights

The memo THEY don’t want you to see

Why bother?

How can the INDIVIDUAL survive?

The INDIVIDUAL in entrepreneurial society

Managing Oneself — a REVOLUTION in human affairs

More than anything else we are responsible for our own self-development and allocating our lives

The second half of one’s life

Who you really are and who you might become!?

Jumping to conclusions

see above

“Most people make the mistake of believing that because something is simple, obvious and sensible we do it all the time.

This is not so at all.

We do not usually do even the simplest of things.” EDB

Assumptions

Misinterpretation caused by feelings

What about feelings and values?

What about beliefs? It is also true that beliefs can stand in the way of progress

Doing a PMI

Social ecologist

Sixteen different angles

Broad

Perception provides

the ingredients for thinking ↓ #pta

↑ “If our perceptions are wrong
then no amount of logical excellence
will give the right answer.” ↓

Your thinking, choices, DECISIONS are

determined by

what you’ve “SEEN” ↑ …

“It is only our lack of complete information
that makes it necessary for us to think”

The traditional notion in education that information is sufficient is old-fashioned and dangerous

“In addition to information

we need #ideas.

Ideas are
the spectacles
through which
we look
at information.”

‘An #idea
can never
make the best use
of available information
because
information trickles into the mind
over a period of time
the idea patterns set up
cannot be as good
as if
all the information
arrived at once.’ continue

“One does not pay attention to everything.

And one acts
only upon what one is
paying attention to.

(A Century of Social Transformation)

The reaction may be #thinking or it may be action (which is only thinking that passes through our mouths or our muscles instead of our minds).

The world around is full of a huge number of things to which one could pay attention.

But it would be impossible to react to everything at once.

So one reacts only to a selected part of it.

The choice of attention area
determines
the action or thinking
that follows.

The choice
of this area of attention
is one of the most fundamental
aspects of thinking.”

Very powerful ::: TLN Insights ::: #adt #edb

The thinking
needed
to get things done:

Getting the RIGHT things done and avoiding the four realities of an executive’s situation that push them toward futility

Is it a problem or an important decision?

Career Performance or trivial pursuit

objectives, priorities, alternatives,
other people's views,
creativity, decisions, choices, planning,
consequences of action operacy

Think before it’s too late