Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- .This section is about ideals, problems and techniques of thinking. --- 1/24/2006
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Ideal mind or optimal mind. At all times you want your brain working at peak performance, at the boundaries of your knowledge, on all subjects. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Ideal person has ideal mind which includes total knowledge, which means know all, all the time. Know what is. Know what is most important, in all perspectives, for all situations. Know what should be. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Ideal. (1) Balanced, adapting, broad, expanding mind. (2) Attack everything from every angle. (3) Brave and wise. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Ideal. Fast, complete, accurate, important, healthy, clear, balanced, powerful. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Ideal. Free, unrepressed thought. Freedom from internal repression. Freedom from external repression. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Ideal. Keep a balanced mind. Keep a balanced intellect (methods). Keep a balance knowledge pool. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Ideal. Many big thoughts, old and new, theoretical and applied, in logical order and importance order. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Ideal. Optimal mind. Optimal thought structure for any situation, event, problem, or thing. Optimal emotion, and memory too. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Ideal. Optimal thought for a situation, and optimal knowledge base for a situation. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Ideal. Place to get head. Desperate, intense, driven, urgent, important, everyday in danger of being last, no b.s. Ultimate, basic, foundation. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Ideal. Smarter, better, and faster. More efficient and more effective. Less mistakes, and fewer logical fallacies. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Ideal. To an ideal mind every idea is a hypothesis, subject to revision. Ideal mind is adaptable, it grows and progresses. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Ideal. To the point vs. besides the point. Truthful, subtle, precision, all the time. Economical, big picture. Focus: broad vs. narrow. Concentration: long vs. short; deep vs. shallow. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Ideal. To think, feel, and remember freely, powerfully, truthfully, all the time, on everything. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Problem: no thoughts. No thoughts due to no words versus no thoughts due to not thinking --- 4/26/2005
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Problem. (1) People's interior monologues are very poor. They don't use the right concepts (like situation, problems, goals, etc.). Their minds are cluttered, not clean and efficient. They are not up and running full time. They do not think and do not write. (2) The big problem with individuals. Their mental content is cluttered with junk. Their mental processes are inefficient. --- 11/10/1993
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Problem. 95% people don't think much or well. Many people go cradle to grave without an important thought. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Problem. Blind obedience vs. free thinking and acting. Wide and flexible views vs. narrow and rigid views. Missing most important ideas in a situation. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Problem. Figuring out vs. finding out. People give up to soon or end prematurely. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Problem. Knowledge deficiencies in key areas. No thoughts, or false views, or unimportant views, or repressed thoughts, can all kill you. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Problem. Most people don't think much or well on important things. Many people have poor booting up ideas. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Problem. My big problem. Determining information needs. Finding quickest easiest way to get information. Reduce reading and note-taking time. Improve notetaking and memory. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Problem. Narrowness of thought. Specialization of thought = cult thinking = unhealthy. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Problem. Old days: didn't need to know as much, and had more time to think about it. Today: need to know more, and less time to learn it. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Problem. One fu*k up early on in a thought chain can send you far off course. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Problem. Optimal thought train for a situation vs. thought trains that are irrelevant, gap ridden, undirected. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Problem. People don't think and write enough on their own. They are too specialized, and not enough generalized. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Problem. People who do not think: Lazy minds. Crazy minds. Dull minds. Fearful minds (fearful of what one might figure out). These are people who do not think. These are people who may turn to things like cults or religions. --- 7/24/1998
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Problem. People who think they know it all, or think they know all they need to know. These people stop thinking and learning. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Problem. Rigidity as a personality trait. Causes and effects, pros and cons. Close minded: nothing comes in. Narrow minded: thinks only on few subjects, on one track. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Problem. The problem is not that people don't use 95% of their brain. The problem is that they don't use their brain 95% of time. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Problem. There is no time to think or remember in order to integrate for health, between the demands placed on us by school, work, friends, etc. This lack of time to think causes more stupid, unintergrated sick people. Go off and integrate in quiet beauty. Spend more time thinking, think more efficiently. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Problem. They don't have time to think, don't want to think, don't know how to think, are interrupted by things, are seduced by other things, or let media think for them. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Problem. Thinking of past, present, future. Some people think too much or too little about any of these. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Problem. When people think, "We don't have to think, others will think for us.", it is dangerous. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Problem. Wrong subject, wrong method, not enough thinking, or do it poorly,. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Problems with thinking. (1) Too much on one subject, and too little on another subject. (2) Thinking on unimportant subjects. (3) Not thinking at all, poor methods. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Problems with thought. (1) Obsession, narrow minded. (2) Rigidity, unchanging. (3) Poor reasoning ability. (4) Shallow pool of knowledge, few ideas, inaccurate facts. --- 11/30/1997
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Problems. (1) People who decide that they will not add any more ideas to their pool of knowledge. (2) People who decide that they will not change any of the ideas in their pool of knowledge. --- 6/8/2005
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Problems. Most people think not enough, poorly, and on wrong subjects. This leads to many big problems and a few crappy solutions. A wasted life doing many sub-optimal things poorly. And bad things too. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Problems. Two problems. (1) Having a wealth of experiences, yet not forming any inferences, hypotheses or conclusions. (2) Being able to form conclusions, yet having little raw data, observations and experiences from which to draw inferences. (3) The solution: Get a lot of experiences and make a lot of inferences. --- 1/1/2001
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Techniques. (1) Classification thinking (logical structure). (2) Time thinking (historical organization). (3) Value thinking (prioritized organization). Think about most important things. Think about what's most important and why. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Techniques. (1) Figure out best thoughts for a situation. (2) Learn as much as you can. (3) Know and do. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Techniques. (1) Improve your thinking (reasoning) skills. (2) Improve your creativity skills. (3) Gain a wider and deeper pool of knowledge. Read more books and better books. (4) Get the rest of your head working well (memory, goals, emotions, etc.). (5) Organize your knowledge. Examine your hidden assumptions. --- 6/16/2004
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Techniques. Avoid stress. Avoid wasting time and energies. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Techniques. Bringing all your types of knowledge and intellect and skills resources to bear on a problem. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Techniques. How to "mind" best. How to think, feel, remember best. Keeping the big picture, staying philosophical. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Techniques. How to think more: make time, and use the time. How to think better: get more data, use "x in general" method. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Techniques. I get best ideas after warming up for an hour or two. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Techniques. Mental exercises. Puzzle solving. Creative exercises. Brainstorming. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Techniques. Reading: (1) Fiction: linear. (2) Textbooks: outline. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Techniques. Relax to think, energize to think. Focus energies, and economize energies. Keep the garbage out: false, unimportant, sub-optimal. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Techniques. Think about everything all the time because we experience everything, directly or indirectly. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Techniques. Thinking takes time. Take time to think. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Techniques. Thinking when directionless or uninspired: work on subject outlines, most important ideas for me, goals, problems. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Techniques. Three forms of knowledge. (1) Put knowledge in the form of math equations (i.e., math models). I'm not good at this. (2) Devise science experiments to test knowledge. I'm not good at this. (3) Put knowledge in the form of logical models. This I may have a chance at. --- 7/25/2000
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Techniques. Three tactics. (1) Learning about thinking and creativity. (2) Doing intellectual exercises (working out various intelligences and ways of thinking). (3) Gaining wide and deep subject knowledge. (4) How much is thinking improvable? To what extent is thinking limited by IQ? Can you turn an average person into a genius? To what extent will gaining the above three help improve the quantity and quality of your thinking, and your life? --- 11/29/1993
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Techniques. To think well you need to feel comfortable (with self and with environment), and calm. --- 11/06/1993
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Techniques. Transfer of ideas to other subjects, and to other situations. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Techniques. What increases the quality and quantity of thinking? Time, effort, concentration, calmness, lack of distractions, unrepressed, practice, raw data (experience and books), writing. What decreases quantity and quality of thinking? Depression, fatigue, etc. --- 06/30/1993
Psychology, thinking, ideal problems techs. --- Techniques. What to think about in present situation. What's going on? How good is it for me? What am I doing? How well am I doing it? How good is it for me? --- 12/30/1992