Charles Leon
Ascending Descending: Patternicity & ...

The brain cannot leave raw information alone. Given a scattering of dots, it draws lines between them. Given noise, it hears a voice.

Ascending Descending: Patternicity & Agenticity
Charles Leon
Is Logic Overrated?

A story, which opens Malcolm Gladwell's Blink, is where I want to start, because it captures something a fourteen-month due-diligence process is structurally incapable of noticing about itself: it can be flawless and still be answering the wrong question. Logic needs the “gut” to decide…

Is Logic Overrated?
Charles Leon
Don't Colour Inside the Lines:

The question our schools must answer is not whether children should be creative. They already are. The question is whether we will have the wisdom — and the courage — to stop educating it out of them

Don't Colour Inside the Lines:
Charles Leon
What cave painters knew (and the rest of us ...

Art arrives by a different road entirely, bypassing the locked doors and finding the person still waiting inside. It is a small, quietly devastating observation, and it captures something that neuroscience has been methodically proving ever since: that engaging with art — making it, experiencing it, losing yourself in it — does something profound and measurable to the human brain.

What cave painters knew (and the rest of us forgot)
Charles Leon
The Audacity of Ideas:

Economists, bless them, have spent centuries trying to explain why some nations prosper and others flounder, filling blackboards with supply curves, liquidity traps, and enough Greek letters to staff an Athens phone book. And yet the answer may have been hiding in plain sight all along

The Audacity of Ideas:
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How to get what you want! Your Reticular Activation System

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How to get what you want! Your Reticular Activation System

I have often wondered how it is that we can focus on one thing rather than another, why we can sometimes focus so clearly that we exclude all other distractions. Like internet algorithms, It turns out that we have a system in our brains that does just that. The Reticular Activation System.

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The Four Laws of Habit Change

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The Four Laws of Habit Change

In his remarkable book “Atomic Habits” James Clear suggests that the solution doesn’t lie in trying harder, but instead trying smarter and working with how our brains work. Working in small, simple, and achievable steps is the way to achieve successful and lasting habit change.

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How Creative Thinking Happens.

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How Creative Thinking Happens.

Creative thinking involves risk and uncertainty, but it is how we grow as individuals, as communities and as societies. We share information and then step up on the knowledge ladder and add a further step for those following in our footsteps.

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The 5 Stages of a Design Thinking process.

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The 5 Stages of a Design Thinking process.

Design thinking is a structured process for creatively approaching complex problem solving and product development by understanding, deconstructing, reasoning and reconstructing the problem. There are 5 basic stages: Analysis, problem framing and defining, ideation and creative thinking, modelling and prototyping, and testing and evaluating.

Political Decision Making. The Long and the Short of it.

Political Decision Making. The Long and the Short of it.

Uncertainty about the future is nothing new. In conditions of uncertainty, such as we have now, navigating towards a distant destination is perilous. Conditions change, viewpoints change, but if the destination is clear, then all decisions will point in the same direction toward the objective. Confidence, clarity and focus about this ultimate destination require perseverance and determination.

The long and the short of it is the problem. Short term thinking only leads to short term answers.

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