"Thinking like a scientist involves more than just reacting with an open mind. It means being actively openminded."

Amanda Dickson (@amandadickson) tweeted on Sun, May 16, 2021:

More from Think Again by Adam Grant https://t.co/n1e64VcTet

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For more about the mental modes as explained by Adam Grant, you can get his book

or listen to one of his podcast interviews (there are others, I have listened to these and they are worthy of listening to)

• JJ Abrams switches to interview Adam  https://www.adamgrant.net/podcast/think-again-jj-abrams-takes-adams-job-2/
• Brene Brown talks with Adam  https://brenebrown.com/podcast/brene-with-adam-grant-on-the-power-of-knowing-what-you-dont-know/

"Thinking like a scientist involves more than just reacting with an open mind. It means being actively openminded."

Temple Grandin - "visual thinkers, pattern thinkers, verbal thinkers"

We get our first view into the Schools budget during the School Committee meeting on 3/9/10. Apparently, the budget will initially focus on "level service" (based upon the update from the meeting 2/23/10).

Going from "level service" to "level funded" or less will be a challenge. This TED Talk by Temple Grandin is good at showing the different kinds of thinking we are capable of. The different kinds of thinking require different approaches.



Are we preparing a sufficiently challenging environment for all types of thinkers?

Are we prepared to fund it appropriately?

Foster systems thinking

Modern education systems deserve much of the blame, both for fostering the belief that education ends when a person leaves school and for its emphasis on being right rather than on how to learn from mistakes. This has encouraged caution rather than risk-taking, with individuals preferring to avoid mistakes when possible and hide them if necessary. The world’s four greatest statisticians never took a course in statistics, Mr Ackoff would point out, and three of America’s greatest architects (Henry Hobson Richardson, Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright) never took a formal course in architecture.

Society urgently needs to find better ways of inculcating systems thinking in its decision-makers and public-policy experts in particular, he argued. It also needs to change how it accounts for mistakes. Currently, almost any accounting system you can think of records mistakes of commission, when a deliberate act goes wrong, but keeps no record of mistakes of omission: things not done that should have been. The result is a conservative, risk-averse culture that holds back the innovation that society needs.

Read the full article in The Economist here

Read more about the ideas of Russ Ackoff here and here