Thinking and Learning

Check this out. I like how she thinks.


http://prezi.com/r2lbb3lfomg5/playing-to-learn-math/

What do you think?  Her definition of boredom grabs me.  

Thinking about processes - 2

To continue thinking about processes, I wonder what it takes to wake me up to the way things have changed.

Just because I set my own agenda doesn't mean I am setting the best agenda for myself.  Just because something worked last year doesn't mean it will work this year.  A close friend of mine is wrestling with this, as I have.  In his profession the best way to succeed has changed.  The old way(s) are not working.  When I moved from one state to another, from one kind of community to another, my former successful methods were met with resistance and boredom, and were not successful at all.

It took me a couple of years to recognize that the agendas I set for myself were failure agendas.

In a variety of situations I learned that it was not only necessary to set my own agenda, but to recognize the ways differing circumstances required me to change my agenda often.

How does a person learn to think fluidly, to change soon enough but not too soon?  Can this be taught?

I wonder about this part of the thinking process.  What do you think?

Thinking about processes - 1

We have been thinking about processes here in Littleton.  As a professional I have had to be a self-starter most of my life.  I set the agenda for each day, each week, each year.  How did I learn to do that?  How did I learn to think that way?

The comic character, Zits, embodies thinking without much inner motivation.  He relies on his mom to get him up in the morning, to feed him, to ensure that he has a lunch packed for school, and on and on.  So did I when I was young.  What happened to help me think for myself, motivate myself, set the agenda for myself?

When teaching Soon-To-Be professionals such as teachers, doctors, attorneys, pastors and so forth, I wonder whether they can be "taught" or "trained" to think in such a way as to take charge of their own day, their own income and their own retirement along with their own lives.  Can it be taught?

If a person is raised by people who work for someone else who sets the agenda for her/his work, where might that person get a model for being a self-starter?  That is, if a person punches in each day, has a boss who says, "You work the ________ line today." and punches out after eight or nine hours, what is being modeled? 

See, I think it is all about thinking.  What is a person's usual mental habit?  What can a person learn?  How can a person think differently?

I'm not sure.  What do you think?