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Genius

If you click here, you will be taken to the genius page where you will get an introduction to genius and how it may be facilitated by environmental factors. It also provides a brief introduction to the Root-Bernstein's thirteen tools, facilities or potential abilities that humans are all born into the world with, and then lose, because they are discouraged in their use or are droped in favor of such skills as speaking our native languages.

Rapid Cognition

If you click here, you will be taken to the rapid cognition page, where an introducion to the ideas, from the book "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell, is presented. These ideas cover the functioning of the unconcious mind in developing creativegenius ideas, as well as demystifing the near precient functioning of hunches, insight and intuition. Also subconscious mind functioning from the "The Art of Learning" by Josh Waitzkin is explored.

Creativity

If you click here, you will be taken to the 'creativity' page that explores the nature of creativity and the various tecniques for facilitating and amplifying creativity. On this page we grapple with the alturnative views that creativity is only an unconscious activity or that it can be facilitated in the form of a conscious activity. This page also covers what possable environmental conditions might be conducive to personal creativity.

Recognizing Patterns

If you click here, you will be taken to a needs map page that provides information about and links to various pages concerning Maslow and his hierarchy. The information concerning those pages, will be provided on that needs map page in the same manner as it is on this page. The information will cover pages that will include, an overview page of Maslow's work and pages for each of the need levels in his hierarchy of needs.

Abstracting

If you click here, you will be taken to a 'whatwecando' page. This page is in three sections. The first section is on how things change. The second is links to pages on how different sections of the community or institutions can change. These pages are 'schools', 'government', 'business', 'libraries', 'internet', 'television', 'teachers', 'students', 'learners', 'parents', 'programers', 'psychologists'. The final section is on student directed learning.

Imaging

If you click here, you will be taken to a page called 'outcomes'. This page is in three sections. The first section is on testing as performed in schools. The second section is links to the eleven keys to learning with a brief description. These key pages are, 'world', 'confidence', 'fragile', 'failure', 'criticism', 'teachlearn', 'contagion', 'start', 'choices', learntolearn', 'learningthefuture'. The final section deals with learning by doing.

Transforming

If you click here, you will be taken to the 'curiosity' page for a look at the need to learn and how it relates to Maslow's hierarchy of needs. In fact this page is about two related needs. First the need to find consistence and invariants in the world and secondly the need to learn for the shear love of learning. All other needs are subject to these two needs because all other needs can only be satisfied through learning.

Playing

If you click here, you will be taken to a needs map page that provides information about and links to various pages concerning Maslow and his hierarchy. The information concerning those pages, will be provided on that needs map page in the same manner as it is on this page. The information will cover pages that will include, an overview page of Maslow's work and pages for each of the need levels in his hierarchy of needs.

Modeling

If you click here, you will be taken to a 'method' map page that provides information about and links to various pages concerning Karl Popper, Jean Piaget, Maria Montessori, and the meanings of words used on this site. The information concerning those pages, will be provided on that 'method' map page in the same manner as it is on this page. The important thrust of this section concerns the work of Popper.

Dimensional

If you click here, you will be taken to a 'method' map page that provides information about and links to various pages concerning Karl Popper, Jean Piaget, Maria Montessori, and the meanings of words used on this site. The information concerning those pages, will be provided on that 'method' map page in the same manner as it is on this page. The important thrust of this section concerns the work of Popper.

Empathizing

If you click here, you will be taken to a 'method' map page that provides information about and links to various pages concerning Karl Popper, Jean Piaget, Maria Montessori, and the meanings of words used on this site. The information concerning those pages, will be provided on that 'method' map page in the same manner as it is on this page. The important thrust of this section concerns the work of Popper.

Body Thinking

If you click here, you will be taken to a metaneeds page or a being needs page which will inform you as to Maslow's understanding of what it is to be self actualized. It covers the transcendent value needs of wholeness, perfection, completion, Justice, Chaos, Order, Simplicity, Richness, Beauty, Goodness, Uniqueness, Effortlessness, Playfulness, Truthfulness, Self-sufficiency, Creativity and Passion.

Analogizing

If you click here, you will be taken to a metaneeds page or a being needs page which will inform you as to Maslow's understanding of what it is to be self actualized. It covers the transcendent value needs of wholeness, perfection, completion, Justice, Chaos, Order, Simplicity, Richness, Beauty, Goodness, Uniqueness, Effortlessness, Playfulness, Truthfulness, Self-sufficiency, Creativity and Passion.

Forming Patterns

If you click here, you will be taken to a metaneeds page or a being needs page which will inform you as to Maslow's understanding of what it is to be self actualized. It covers the transcendent value needs of wholeness, perfection, completion, Justice, Chaos, Order, Simplicity, Richness, Beauty, Goodness, Uniqueness, Effortlessness, Playfulness, Truthfulness, Self-sufficiency, Creativity and Passion.

Observing

If you click here, you will be taken to a metaneeds page or a being needs page which will inform you as to Maslow's understanding of what it is to be self actualized. It covers the transcendent value needs of wholeness, perfection, completion, Justice, Chaos, Order, Simplicity, Richness, Beauty, Goodness, Uniqueness, Effortlessness, Playfulness, Truthfulness, Self-sufficiency, Creativity and Passion.

Synthesizing

If you click here, you will be taken to a metaneeds page or a being needs page which will inform you as to Maslow's understanding of what it is to be self actualized. It covers the transcendent value needs of wholeness, perfection, completion, Justice, Chaos, Order, Simplicity, Richness, Beauty, Goodness, Uniqueness, Effortlessness, Playfulness, Truthfulness, Self-sufficiency, Creativity and Passion.

The Sociology of Creation

If you click here, you will be taken to the page on the sociology of creation. This page tries to outline how certain social conditions interact to enable comunities of people to produce greater numbers of creative people. Much of this is based on the ideas presented in Steven Johnson's book "Where Good Ideas Come From" such as adjacent possible, liquid networks, the slow hunch, serendipity, error, exaptation and platforms.

Prodigies and the Gifted

If you click here, you will be taken to the page on the sociology of creation. This page tries to outline how certain social conditions interact to enable comunities of people to produce greater numbers of creative people. Much of this is based on the ideas presented in Steven Johnson's book "Where Good Ideas Come From" such as adjacent possible, liquid networks, the slow hunch, serendipity, error, exaptation and platforms.