[Neurons] 2019 Neurons #26 WHAT KIND OF COGNITIVE MAKE-OVER .... DO YOU WANT?

[Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

2019 Neurons #26

June 3, 2019

 

WHAT KIND OF COGNITIVE MAKE-OVER

WOULD YOU LIKE?

 

Make-Over programs on television refer to improving, refreshing,
rejuvenating, or completely redoing something -a house, a restaurant, one's
visual appearance (hair, makeup, clothes), etc.  Similarly a cognitive
make-over refers to either improving your thinking/ learning skills,
refreshing competencies that you have, rejuvenating those cognitive
capacities that have become stale, and/or completely re-doing your thinking,
perceiving, and learning patterns.  In this, there are many kinds of
cognitive make-overs.

           What kind would you like?

           What kind of make-over of your cognitive capacities would
enhance your life and raise your self-efficacy to cope with the world that
you face everyday?

 

If there are many kinds of cognitive make-overs, you may be wonder, "What
are my choices? And what do each of these choices mean?"  You could opt for
any one or combination of the following:

__ A Learning Enrichment Cognitive Make-Over

__ An Enhanced Memory Cognitive Make-Over

__ A Smart Decision-Making Cognitive Make-Over

__ An Enriched Strategy Cognitive Make-Over

__ A Thoughtful Foresight Cognitive Make-Over

__ A Risk-Management of Future Consequences Cognitive Make-Over

__ A Critical Thinking Skills Cognitive Make-Over

__ A Creative / Innovative Cognitive Make-Over

__ An Emotional Enrichment (E.Q.) Cognitive Make-Over

 

Cognitive Make-Overs begin with your basic cognitive (thinking) skills- how
you represent information (representation systems), how you encode it
(sub-modality or cinematic features), how you retrieve your ideas (memory
access), the questions you ask about the variables of an experience, how you
create your emotions from your thinking, etc. 

 

Now while cognitive refers to "thinking," in the human mind-body-emotion
system, thinking includes much more than what we have traditionally thought
of as "thinking."  It has been the dualistic thinking that dichotomizes
thinking and feeling that has been the culprit for creating that
pseudo-problem.  Kinesthetic feeling is one of the basic forms of thinking
along with visual and auditory thinking.  And an emotion itself is a
composite of meaning-making thinking plus a kinesthetic.  That's why as you
think, so you feel.  And also, your feelings inevitably influence your
thinking.  Thinking-emoting is a holistic package and cannot be strictly
dichotomized.

That's why a Cognitive Make-Over inherently entails what's called "emotional
intelligence"- awareness, monitoring, regulating, and relating.  And why
every Cognitive Make-Over provides a richer and more robust emotional state
whether it is confidence, resilience, compassion, efficiacy, etc.

 

Cognitive Make-Overs then move to a meta-level where you
think-about-your-thinking begin with monitoring and regulating your
emotions, managing your memory strategies, develop your capacities for
critical thinking, creative thinking, risk-management thinking, manage your
decision-making skills, planning (anticipating, setting expectations,
entertaining scenarios, etc.) and much more.

 

Further, to expose another dichotomized myth, to think is to learn and when
you learn you are thinking in new and different ways.  As a result, this
means that every cognitive make-over entails a higher level of learning-
learning more effectively, accelerating your learning, overcoming learning
disabilities, enriching your learning capacities, etc. 

 

This is critical individually and for organizations since accelerating
learning and improving the quality of learning is a key competitive
advantage in today's world.  No longer is it sufficient to have learned.
You have to keep learning and what's more-you have to be continually
learning about learning.  You not only need to be a sharp, skillful, and
competent thinker, you have to be able to think-about-thinking-
meta-thinking.  You not only have to learn, you have to unlearn.  So, what
kind of cognitive make-over would you like?

 

 

 

To Learn More:

See Executive Thinking (2018)

              Creative Solutions (2017)

              Communication Magic (2001)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 




 

 

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

Executive Director, Neuro-Semantics

P.O. Box 8

Clifton CO. 81520 USA

www.neurosemantics.com   look for the special offer

 

Author of the stunning new history of NLP--- NLP Secrets.  

Investigative Journalism which has exposed what has been kept secrets for
decades. 

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