Observation is Powerful

A traveler
without observation
is a bird without wings.

~ Saadi

MOSLIH EDDIN (MUSLIH-UN-DIN) SAADI (SADI)
Persian poet, (1184 - 1291)

Giga Quote 
Public Quotes

From The Heart

"What comes from the heart goes to the heart." 

  --  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, QuoteWorld 

Noticed during the Barbra Streisand segment of the Kennedy Center Honors.

What are CLiCs - Take 271

Draft Sat, Oct 11, 2008
Updated Mon, Dec 8, 2008
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You are here.  Your primary challenge is to live your life. Go!

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Mon 12/8/2008
For being more aware, and for learning.
For appreciating more, and for loving.
For achieving more, and for leading.
...

How bizarre does that sound? And yet, we bring more order to being a football player, a chef, or an architect than we do to living our lives.

CLiCs, Core Life Concepts, are for bringing order to what we need to know to live our lives. Every part of our lives.

Benefits

1 ::: A Place for Every Idea, and Every Idea in its Place

Instead of a massive jumble of ideas, whether in alphabetical order, or what, CLiCs puts ideas in order. Just as the rainbow informs us of a sensible order to colors, ROY G BIV, or Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet, and time requires that we act in order from Past, Present, to the Future. So CLiCs presents a new order. An order that is consistent with reality, thus providing ... a place for every idea. And then we need to put every idea in its place. (((Organized Ideas and Insights)

We keep all of our other valuables in order: food, clothing, money, possessions,
Order brings more value: knowledge, insight, choices

2 ::: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

A picture provides context. At a glance, we can grasp some of the essence of what is going on. A picture provides insight in multiple dimensions. With a picture, we can better see how things fit and work together.

Gain - clarity in communication, effectiveness, time.
Pain - people get confused, lost in the weeds, miss the point with too many words

3 ::: Life Demands Skill and Wisdom

"I'm out of bed and dressed. What more do you want?" So reads bumper stickers and t-shirts that I've seen.

Whether with football or with food, fundamentals are essential. You can't just fake it. Life is the same way! But what are the fundamentals for living an effective life? The order of ideas that CLiCs present provides insight into this critical task. CLiCs do not pretend to capture all the wisdom we need. However, it seeks to identify "the blanks". It's each of our jobs to "fill them in".

Schweitzer and Example, Example, Example

"Adults teach children in three important ways:

The first is by example,
the second is by example,
the third is by example."

"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing."

Albert Schweitzer
French philosopher & physician (1875 - 1965)

Good Order

Good order is the foundation of all great things.  

Edmund Burke

(Found in my notes Chap1Chap2.doc)

LIFE Photos From Google

http://images.google.com/hosted/life

Incapable of Comprehending!

JB's Favorite Einstein Quote

Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world. In our endeavor to understand reality ...

we are somewhat like a man trying to understand the mechanism of a closed watch. 

He sees the face and the moving hands, even hears its ticking, but he has no way of opening the case. 

If he is ingenious he may form some picture of a mechanism which could be responsible for all the things he observes, but he may never be quite sure his picture is the only one which could explain his observations.

He will never be able to compare his picture with the real mechanism and he cannot even imagine the possibility or the meaning of such a comparison.

A simpler quote

 

All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike - and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

 

Albert Einstein

 

I might edit his quote though, to say, …

 

All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike - and yet it is one of the most precious things we have.

 

Albert Einstein with Tom Horsfield's assist

Direct quote from JB

I'm not saying there is no absolute truth, just that we don't fully understand that truth.  And it is surely to be wrestled with, just as we are here.  I think God knows that when we, as human beings, reach a point where we think we know the absolute truth (not the source of it, but the actual truth itself), we become dangerous, to ourselves, others, and creation itself.  ... Therefore it is simply our job to trust and have faith in Him.  We can discuss and debate our perceptions/models/understandings, and that's good.  But let's not destroy creation in the process.

Baddeley's model of working memory

Reference: Wikipedia








CLiC Pictures give you another tool to use on "your visuo-spatial sketchpad" while you're

• listening,
  
• conversing,
  
• acting, or
  
• assessing.

See Aaron Williamson's blog with illustration from Dave Gray's VizThink

TOTE or ETOTE

George A. Miller strikes again! I've been fascinated with his idea of chunking in memory, i.e. 7 plus/minus 2 pieces of information at a time. He also developed a model for how we operate called TOTE.

My only addition (I always have to edit), is to add an E at the beginning.

1. Enter
2. Test
3. Operate
4. Test
5. Exit