Monday, May 27, 2019

Eighty-four days in the project #CriticalThinking in 365 concepts

"Should we save Homo Sapiens?"


Let's get out there and start thinking! Before it's too late.

78. Untold story

79. Mental experiment

80. Core Defining Variable (CDV)

81. Blend

82. Paradigm

83. Storytelling 

84. Canvas 
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Nobody and nothing can replace the power of an educated citizenry. 

All too many can steal away the individual rights of folks who refuse themselves the right to think. Don't let it happen to you. 

#CommonSenseUniversity
#SwissArmyKnifeThinking

Adrian S. Petrescu, Ph.D., J.D.
InnovationTrek
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Monday, May 20, 2019

Seventy-seven days in the project #CriticalThinking in 365 concepts

We reached the end of week eleven. First week that had some serious analyses assigned. Rightly so as we started actually utilizing the concepts for bombarding practical questions with them. 

71. Proactive 

72. Nurtured Arrogant Incompetence (NAI)

73. Dogma 

74. Universal Application 

75. Training 

76. Self-recursive 

77. Resilience 
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This past week we made a list of things we want analyzed and explained, and we started making a list of concepts to bombard a chosen issue with—accountability. Or whatever readers chose as their own issues to address. We have a method to make a recipe and an example of an actual product... 



Adrian S. Petrescu, Ph.D., J.D.
InnovationTrek
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Monday, May 13, 2019

Seventy days in the project #CriticalThinking in 365 concepts

Ten weeks are past us. For those of us who decided to be engaged every day, read everything thoroughly, take in all the materials, and let our minds flow free using more and more of the concepts and suggested processes introduced every day, we should already be al much smarter, which only means so much more aware of how dumb we are as individuals and as humankind as a whole. Which is not to say that we are not so much capable to do so much better than we've done so far.;)

We also dared to give homework last day of the ten weeks—today. We shall see how that works out. 

Let's review the last week.

64. Analytical approximate completeness 

65. Indeterminism 

66. Uncertainty 

67. Appropriately irreverent 

68. Relevance,
or
Stand tall

69. Interdependence 

70. Language 
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We had a lot to get to, to take in, and to read this last week. Furthermore, right now we should be busy researching sources meant to take down over seventy years of critical problem solving, all embedded so much in almost everything that surrounds us, sold to us as the best thing since the wire to cut butter, and forgetting all of the framework behind the empty words, let alone its limitations and how to tactically and strategically eliminate them consciously and systematically. 

I'm looking forward to hearing from you—on the assignment of day 70. or on anything else. 

This is intense. I know. You can do it. Or decide not to—and say to yourself or to others "I have an uncle at MIT," hoping that you only run into people who fall for that logical fallacy—that you hope your uncle's smarts rub off on you by you simply mentioning him in conversation. Hm. It doesn't work that way. We all get that it doesn't. 

So let's tough it out and let's think for ourselves. 

Adrian S. Petrescu, Ph.D., J.D.
InnovationTrek
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Monday, May 6, 2019

Sixty-three days in the project #CriticalThinking in 365 concepts

We just finished week nine. The same as saying week three of course/set two of six weeks each. 

Let's review the week:

57. Distribute

58. Critical Mass 

59. Healing

60. Push and pull dual self-motivation strategy

61. Borrow

62. mă aburești 

63. Humor
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What questions should we ask about these concepts to help with their use and aggregation between them and with others already introduced?

Adrian S. Petrescu, Ph.D., J.D.
InnovationTrek
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Monday, April 29, 2019

Fifty-six days in the project #CriticalThinking in 365 concepts

We just finished week eight. Once again, it's the same as saying we are done with week two of course/set two of six weeks each.

More challenges were thrown our way this week. Intentional application of _dynamic process_ to more concepts, connecting even more things together. Lectures and presentations that connect to the concept introduced only at a higher level of analysis and with the readers's own application of built up analytical skill and ability to interconnect concepts and to recognize the connections and application, as well as further need for analysis beyond what the mere 1300 characters introduce and the lecture or presentation suggest.

Let's review the week:

49. bis. Bonus from end of week seven:
Turn (tables, argument, around, things up-side-down, things in your favor etc.)

50. Accurate v. Reliable

51. Pioneer
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52. Dynamic process

53. Play, Love, Do.
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54. Journey

55. Accepting

56. Weakness

As always, let's think about everything we've seen. And more. Ask questions. Start answering them. Run some of the answers by each other, to see where they're going, and to certainly use more than one mind or pair of eyes to drive our dynamic process on the knowledge chasing journey we're on.

Week nine--my second most favorite number (first is obviously twenty-seven)--starts now.

Enjoy.

Adrian S. Petrescu, J.D., Ph.D.

ASPetrescu@InnovationTrek.org (office)

ASPetrescu@alumni.pitt.edu (private)
http://www.linkedin.com/in/aspetrescu 

"I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is to not be afraid of making mistakes or appearing naive." Abraham Maslow (1908-70) 
"My country is the world and my religion is to do good." (Thomas Paine, 1736-7, 1809)
"Cogito, ergo sum" (Rene Descartes, 1596-1650) 
"Who is John Galt?"
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Monday, April 22, 2019

Forty-nine days in the project #CriticalThinking in 365 concepts

We just finished week seven. That's the same as week one of set/course two. 

It goes without saying that you must have noticed the change of pace and depth. In just one new set of seven concepts we impose connecting them all together and asking and answering deeper and deeper questions, and we force the mind to travel on new pathways that it learns to create with some, or all, that we've introduced so far. We ask that we get into habit new processes that may be trained to become complex. Drawing a system's map? We can only get better and better at doing that by way of using and improving the process over and over again in all we do. The processes and techniques are all supposed to let the mind fly freely in new directions where over time and habit it will let it fully free of anchors, biases and constraints and ready to ask and answer more and more challenging questions on its own. We also continued introducing readings of major consequence. We invite everyone to take in the authors and streams of work and follow them thoroughly further, much beyond merely the readings introduced herein. 

Let's recap what we looked at this last week:

43. Ignorance

44. Time

45. Balance

46. Draw

47. Perspective 

48. Satisfaction 

49. Addiction

We made a lot of progress last week. The arguments we reached take some (including ourselves) decades to realize on their (our) own. 

Look back with your knowledge of today, with these seven times seven days under your belt. How do decisions made before now look with the acquired new abilities of better thinking and seeing things deeper that you built?

What other connections can you make that we could not see before?

As always, answers are always free _for the asking_!;) Ask away. 

Adrian S. Petrescu, Ph.D., J.D.
InnovationTrek
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Monday, April 15, 2019

Forty-two days in the project #CriticalThinking in 365 concepts

We finished week six. If this were a University and if it were a graduate course where you had engaged daily, and seriously, with the material by now you could have earned three accelerated graduate credit hours. A foundation course for many good things to come. 

Did you engage daily? Did you dig all the concepts? Combined them all together in new ways every week? Researched more sources? Answered all the questions? Asked in return as many questions as you had?

It's not too late. Every minute of every day that you spend not pursuing your fullest potential to contribute to humankind's progress ahead is a minute or even a day wasted. Think about it. All your happiness is in nobody else's hands but your own. Do something serious about it!

Let's see the last seven concepts we introduced:

36. Integrate

37. Impact

38. "Why not?"

39. Accurate measures of performance 
(conscious avoidance or reduction of Dunning-Kruger effect)

40. Commitment 

41. Beyond

42. Precautionary principle 

If you did all the things we asked and you enjoyed it, congratulations. Another set of six weeks starts now. Either way, enjoy the ride. 

Ah, one more thing. 

Next time your house is in fire, and the firefighters come, "just say no!" It turns out firefighters, a Benjamin Franklin invention, are just socialist! Like public libraries. Or are they?;)

Adrian S. Petrescu, Ph.D., J.D.
InnovationTrek
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