> On 3 Jul 2014, at 10:49 am, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > > So I think having convenient shorthands for various stances on these matters > is a handy convention, which I would hope everyone who contributes to the > forum recognises. (Although personally I'm still not sure who Plotinus was or > what he had to say about these matters :(
hH: I already dealt with that. You should be using de Bono's Hats systematically in all threads. The idea is that you select which neurotransmitter you are going to perform optimally under when you open your mouth and that the person listening to you unleashes that same neurotransmitter by metaphorically selecting the same-coloured Hat. This is new. There is nothing like this in the conventional attack/defence adversarial default mode of thinking/listening. Under that system, you seek to hide your self-selecting neurotransmitters under rhetoric and fact and colourful use of language. Sophistry IOW. That someone knows in advance that they will look for the benefits in your idea or will try to use your idea as a stepping stone to a better idea are aspects of Parallel Thinking. This is the first truly creative updating of our thinking system since Socrates Plato and Aristotle. You say in advance what part of your mind you are using and then you confine yourself to using only that part of your mnd. If you are like Clark and only have one part to your mind then practising the Hats will grow new neural pathways literally in terms of axions and dendrites as the brain is a machine that physically adapts to the challenges of survival. I reiterate that there is no inbuilt 'humility' or 'modesty' lever available to thinking without the necessary level of honesty that imposing a 'thinking framework' such as the Six Thinking Hats provides. People would post less and each post would be of a higher quality and consistently on topic yet remorselessly exploratory in all aspects of the thinking. Ad hominem is only ever an amusing trantrum someone throws because they are bad at one or a couple of the 6 modes of thinking. Trouble is you cannot teach a bunch of old dogs some new tricks. I think we have a people problem here. K -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
