Jig: Categories
Excerpt from the book: Systems Thinking Made Simple, Chapter 5 This blog is part of a set of blogs under the"cognitive jigs."Be sure to check out the …
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Jig: P-Circle
Excerpt from the book: Systems Thinking Made Simple, Chapter 5 This blog is part of a set of blogs under the"cognitive jigs."Be sure to check out the …
Jig: Analogies, Metaphors and Similes
Excerpt from the book: Systems Thinking Made Simple, Chapter 5 This blog is part of a set of blogs under the tag "cognitive jigs." Be sure to check ou…
Jig: Part Parties
Parties are a place where people get together and make connections. In other words, it’s a situation where people relate to each other. What would hap…
Universal Jigs
What Are Jigs? Jigs are re-useable structures of knowledge and thinking that increase cognitive efficiency. Think of a jig as a common conceptual temp…
Distinctions: When Do They Happen?
What would it mean if we could not make distinctions? What would the world look like to us? If you attempt to imagine a world like that, you would qui…
Jigs and Sliders: The Cognitive Templates of the 21st Century
Jigs and sliders are often simple, but incredibly useful. Our graduate students sometimes have difficulty differentiating them. Here's a definitional …
Slider: Distinguishing Feelings and Thinkings
It is commonplace to hear the phrase, “I feel” used incorrectly. For example, the statement, “I feel like I deserve to win the trophy,” is an incorrec…
Whats the Crisis? The C of 5Cs
1. THE CRISIS OF CORONAVIRUS What's the crisis? As President John F. Kennedy explained: In the Chinese language, the word "crisis" is composed of two …
Quarantined? Watch RE:Thinking for Free for the Next Month
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 17, 2020 ITHACA, NEW YORK - Photosynthesis Productions offered a FREE rental of their educational documentary RE:Thinking …
Cognition in Slow Motion
I write about the identity-other structure of distinctions quite a bit. Mostly because people underestimate (1) the complexity that underlies this see…
Coronavirus- an Evolving Guide
Coronavirus and Covid-19 is an emerging phenomena and we are distinguishing exactly what it is and its effects on an evolving basis. Cutting through t…