[Neurons] 2019 Neurons #27 TO TRULY THINK --- TO ACCELERATE YOUR LEARNING

[Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

2019 Neurons #27

June 10, 2019

 

TO TRULY "THINK" - 

TO ACCELERATE YOUR LEARNING

 

On the surface it seems so simple, yet when you explore within it-it is
profound.  What?  That "to think is to learn."  Obviously, to learn
anything, you have to think.  And that thinking involves lots of things.
Namely, you have to use your mind to entertain ideas about something so that
you can understand that something, comprehend how it works, consider its
consequences, calculate its costs and benefits, transform the idea into
practical actions that you can learn as skills, apply to self, and then
practice with feedback until it comes under your control.

 

All of this says that thinking is far more than just one thing- there are
actually dozens and dozens of aspects and forms of thinking and that means
there are multiple dozens of thinking skills.  Before I did the research
into this, and the training, I never even thought in terms of thinking
skills or enumerated the many different kinds of thinking skills.  (You need
skills to think?)  But now I have.  And as with any and all skills, there
are beginning skills, fundamental skills, core skills, more demanding
skills, and skills at the expert level- advanced skills.  So it is with
thinking skills.

 

To think about thinking skills, in the training Cognitive Make-Over, I
constructed a continuum and then stretched out the cognitive skills from
simple to complex along that continuum.  I also distinguished the various
stages of non-thinking (reacting, being on automatic, passive thinking,
borrowed thinking, agenda thinking, and "knowing" or closed-minded
non-thinking).

 

The point?  All thinking is not the same.  How about that?  Thinking comes
in many forms and expressions.  And that leads to many, many thinking styles
or patterns.  Now in NLP we have a model, the Meta-Programs Model (see
Figuring Out People and Words that Change Minds by Charvet) that describe
the basic 20 along with another 40 for unique contexts.  With meta-programs
we distinguish how as person is thinking- optimistically or pessimistically,
globally or specifically, by matching or mismatching, for options or
procedures, etc.

 

Now, to get back to learning.  If in learning we think, then all of these
thinking skills, styles, and patterns give us multiple aspects of learning.
And for every one of them that you are missing or under-developed in, you
essentially have a learning disability.  That is, your capacity to learn
using any given thinking style, skill, or pattern is undeveloped or weak in
its development.  Now imagine that!

 

But the good news is that every one of these thinking skills, styles, and
patterns gives you want to expand your learning, enrich it, make it more
robust, and accelerate your learning.  Imagine that!  Consequently, one of
the things that many are getting from Cognitive Make-Over is an expanded
boost to their learning capacities.  Without focusing on "learning" per se,
they are becoming more competent in their learning abilities due to their
expanded thinking competencies.

 

Implicitly, rather than explicitly, they are meta-learning.  They are
learning about their learning which is one of the key aspects of
meta-cognition and the executive functions of the pre-frontal cortex.  And
when you expand your thinking abilities to be able to learn about your
learning, you are in a position to choose new and better learning strategies
for yourself, eliminate factors that undermine effective learning, and
improve your entire learning system.  And all of this is a very generative
way to enhance yourself as a person.

 

Now I say that this is implicit in the training, yet you could make it
explicit if that is one of your goals.  And if you do that, you would be
engaged in a Learning Cognitive Make-Over.  Or, as noted in the previous
Neurons' post- you could focus on several other kinds of cognitive
make-overs. 

 

Here's the thing, just as enriched learning is not automatic and just as you
can accidently learn some really wrong things, stupid things, and even
dysfunctional things- so also is thinking.  Good healthy informed clear
thinking is also not automatic.  You have to learn how to think clearly and
precisely so that our thinking is of high quality and truly enhances your
life.  None of us were taught this in school.  They did not tell us that
thinking has to be learned and practiced to be of high quality.  Yet it
does.  And given that, that's why in Neuro-Semantics we are not only
focusing on the content that you need for "running your own brain," but also
the very activity of thinking.

 

 

 

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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