“My personal feeling is that citizens of the democratic societies should undertake a course of intellectual self-defence to protect themselves from manipulation and control, and to lay the basis for more meaningful democracy.
“I’m helping people develop intellectual self-defence… I don’t mean go to school, because you’re not going to get it there… It means that […]
A powerful decision making process is the force field analysis (FFA) system. It helps you identify the forces propelling you towards a decision and the forces resisting change. It is a decision making process opposite of thin slicing (which we talked about earlier) because factors both for and against are consciously deliberated in the force […]
In Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink, we learn of American psychologist John Gottman’s mathmatics of love and divorce, and the cognitive technique called Thin-Slicing. Thin Slicing, simply stated, relies more on hunches and less on deliberate decision making. Why is this a potentially a good idea? Because our subconscious minds sprint into furious computational activity at any given […]