Monday, March 25, 2019

Twenty-one days in the project #CriticalThinking in 365 concepts

We are in week three of the little project #CriticalThinking in 365 concepts. 

First week, March 4-10, 2019, we mentioned why and how teaching your child what you would like is protected under the Constitution in the US and is guaranteed at least from 1923 onwards, inasmuch as we rarely realize it, know it, or value it and enforce it as much as we should. 

Second week, March 11-17, 2019, we showed how the today ubiquitous aerodynamic personal vehicle was really a Romanian invention since 1923. We leave it to the reader to figure out why it matters, from a curiosity and openminded-ness perspective. 

This third week, March 18-24, we let the reader find something just as important from as early as 1923 and in the spirit of self reliance get back to us with the example they found. Why is the example chosen important in using or developing critical thinking?

The concepts we introduced were:

15. Deduction

16. Inertia 

17. Interest

18. Imagination 

19. Deep

20. Debate

21. Self-reliance

Get back to us. What do you think about the project? Can you see how the concepts intertwine already? What should we improve? What's next? Let us know!

Adrian S. Petrescu, Ph.D., J.D.
Chief Future Architect, InnovationTrek
We got here. What's next?
Accelerate Innovation. 
In companies and self.
Grow flow. Naturally.
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Monday, March 18, 2019

Fourteen days in the project #CriticalThinking in 365 concepts

We are in week two of the little project #CriticalThinking in 365 concepts.

Last week, March 4-11, 2019, we started off with why from learning German and from Nebraska in 1923 (Meyer v Nebraska, 262 U.S. 390) comes a parent's right to teach their child what they please, and we looked at seven concepts, namely vicarious, compliance, self-trust, drive, intuition, frame of reference, and straw man.

This last week we added a few more words, of course. Let's introduce them again starting with something else, also from 1923. The streamlined power vehicle. Otherwise contemporaneously called aerodynamic vehicle. We never call it that anymore because we expect all personal vehicles to be aerodynamic today.

As it turns out the aerodynamic vehicle was invented by Aurel Persu, a Romanian engineer working in Germany.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US1648505A/en?oq=US1648505

Aurel Persu invented a few other things as well, but that is for another time. With curiosity though, one can explore much more on their own. 

For now, let's recapitulate the seven concepts from this past week.

8. Curiosity

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6511217005612318720

9. Humility

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6511585767897260033

10. Open minded

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6511970603912749056

11. Perseverance

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6512334363428999169

12. Comfort zone

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6512681759912574976

13. Fallacy of composition

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6513031644482457600

14. Induction

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6513404554241982464

As always, we welcome suggestions of order of introducing the next concepts as well as links to resources that may serve in making the concepts enjoyable. Please contribute directly here, on LinkedIn, on twitter, or email Dr. Pete Rescue directly. 

Best of enjoyment,
Adrian S. Petrescu
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Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Seven days in the project #CriticalThinking in 365 concepts

Starting March 4, 2019 we work on a small project named Critical Thinking in 365 words, or better yet, in 365 concepts.

When I was only three years and a half my parents chose to give me to German kindergarten. Over time German became such a terrible chore and a drag on my fun every day. I had to write five words in a vocabulary notebook every day and study and remember those, and show I still remember the ones from before. For the record we all remember the nouns in German come with twelve different ways to say "the," that all need to simply come naturally based on gender or case of the noun in use. The drill method was useful, in spite of my opposition at the time. So was knowing German, as without it life could not possibly have turned the way it did, and I simply love my life, past, present, and future. I recommend strongly a self designed drill like the one I endured as an elementary school child about German. Stands to reason that here in Nebraska parents fought to the US Supreme Court to teach their children German and they won in 1923. For a brief of Meyer v Nebraska, 262 U.S. 390, see here:


We suggest that we are and can be much better parents everywhere because of this case. We also suggest that critical thinking is like learning a language. You practice every day. It's not a course you take in school. It's what we do every minute of every day. Think. So we might as well think well. Better, even. Let's start. And never stop. Keeping at it can easily make water pass through rock. Best of enjoyment!

So far our first week included:

1. Vicarious

2. Compliance 

3. Self-trust 

4. Drive

5. Intuition 

6. Frame of reference 

7. Straw man

It's never only the concepts, obviously. It's the order in which they are introduced. It's the questions posed which we invite reflection on and answers to. It's the practice every day of the new concepts introduced and especially the connection between them in light of our daily lives. 

We will post groups of seven words at the end of each week here. 

We welcome suggestions of order of introducing the next concepts as well as links to resources that may serve in making the concepts enjoyable. Please contribute directly here, on LinkedIn, on twitter, or email Dr. Pete Rescue directly. 

Adrian S. Petrescu, Ph.D., J.D.
Chief Future Architect, InnovationTrek
We got here. What's next?
Accelerate Innovation. 
In companies and self.
Grow flow. Naturally.
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