“Learning about the natural world is one thing. Learning from the natural world—that’s the switch. That’s the profound switch.”
The Difference Between How Nature Works and People Think
Thinking about the Spread of the Coronavirus (6) – The Expected “Black Swan”
For Black Swan-like events, it seems more sensible to design robust measures than to rely on scientific models that are inherently based on previous events and therefore do not apply. And even worse, they give a misplaced feeling of being in control.
Thinking about the Spread of the Coronavirus (5) – Lack of System Thinking
To what extent are more subsystems involved than just the health care system in tackling the crisis? How are they built? What data they use? Is it taken into account that the spread of the virus, the measures that are taken by the government, and the reactions of the citizens form a complex dynamic system?
Nature Spotting Inspires Wild Ideas
A walk in nature could inspire so many ideas.
Your Face as a Student 2018
In "Education - 21 Century Challenges" about "What should we teach children?" we posed two additional questions: What advice should young people follow? Who or where should they turn for advice when adults' wisdom may only be outdated biases? We suggested two (visual) approaches; one that departs from the current situation and one that departs from …
Quintessentially Me – Student 2050
In "Education - 21 Century Challenges" about "What should we teach children?" we posed two additional questions: What advice should young people follow? Who or where should they turn for advice when adults' wisdom may only be outdated biases? We suggested two (visual) approaches; one that departs from the current situation and one that departs from …
The Brilliant Failure Award – Thinkibility Nibble
Earlier in the post The Charm of Imperfection we wrote about figure-ground reversal or negative space: in art it is the space around and between the subject(s) of an image. Negative space may be most evident when the space around a subject, not the subject itself, forms an interesting or artistically relevant shape, and such space occasionally …
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E-commerce and Daily Thinking – A Thinkibility Nibble
In our blog post Daily Thinking – Discovering Patterns we showed some alarming daily thinking habits, like assuming that there is a linear, unambiguously relation between a cause and an effect. For example, it is assumed that increasing e-commerce will reduce traffic. People will less go to shopping malls. However, delivering goods, ordered one by one with take-back guarantee will increase …
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More Soul, More Youthful Thinking and More Thinking Among Machines
What is artificial intuition? How can it be developed? What if machines not only learn like children but also think like children? What would happen if machines started to think together? Bill Gates has suggested that robots should be taxed and that the money should be used to pay the people who have lost their …
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Hack Your Education
What if: you are stuck in a narrow track, needing to find a job to pay off $27,000 in study debt and there are no jobs at all? colleges doesn't provide good education to succeed in a job? sacred institutions like university ceases to exist? you are allowed to join the real world before getting …
Practise Thinking
In our recent post A Thinkibility Home Trainer we said that we found a home trainer for thinking. A site that strives towards: Thinkers arrange facts and experience to see more clearly. Thinkers surprise themselves with new insights. Thinkers like discipline and focus rather than drift. Thinkers like to change their minds. Thinkers can be of any age. Thinkers never think their thinking is …
A Thinkibilty Home Trainer?
The idea with using a home trainer is to improve your physical fitness. Physical fitness affects the body's physiological functioning, overall health, and motor skill related to aspects such as agility, balance, and speed. A home-trainer is at hand; to help with exercises and there is no need to go to a fitness centre or …
The Secrets of the Sparking Thinkibility Blog
There are alternatives to reading blog posts in a linear and sequential way when they appear in the in-box. It is possible to read a blog, especially this one, in a more active and holistic manner by selecting a theme or tag. If you want to learn about the nature of Six Hat Thinking, which …
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