Mastery by George Leonard

From The Book

1. Instruction
2. Practice

3. Surrender
4. Intentionality

5. The Edge - Push the envelop

From an Amazon review

The Journey

Long-term dedication to the journey - not the bottom line
Gaining mental discipline to travel further on your journey
After you have reached the top of the mountain, climb another one

Making this a life process
Being patient, while you pursue long-term efforts
Maintaining flexibility in your strategy, and in your actions
Knowing that you will never reach a final destination (in this life)

Winning

Winning graciously, and lose with equal grace
Placing practice, discipline, conditioning and character development before winning
Realizing that the ultimate goal is not the medal, or the ribbon, but the path to mastery its self

Practice, Process, Skills

Creating deep roots
Appreciating and even enjoying the plateau, as much as you do the progress

Your commitment to hone your skills
The process where what was difficult becomes both easier and more pleasurable
Realizing that the pleasure of practice is intensified

Being fully in the present moment
Being willing to look foolish
Being courageous

Being diligent with the process of mastery
Being willing to practice, even when you seem to be getting no where
Practicing for the sake of practice

Magic Number 7? 3 chunks of 3

Revisited Wed 3/26/08

The magic number seven after fifteen years, George Miller

Found reference, on p. 107 in section "5.2 Subjects - Why", to the three chunks of three in ...

Object Oriented Analysis (2nd Edition) (Paperback)
by Peter Coad (Author), Edward Yourdon (Author)

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Donald Broadbent
http://www.interaction-design.org/references/authors/donald_broadbent.html

[PDF]

Chunks in expert memory: Evidence for the magical number four… or ...

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The magic number seven after fifteen years. In A. Kennedy. & A. Wilkes (eds.), Studies in long-term memory. Wiley. (pp. 3-18). Charness, N. (1976). ...
www.brunel.ac.uk/3518/PDF//GobetClarkson.pdf - Similar pages - Note this

UI Design Web Article

http://www.humanfactors.com/downloads/sep00.asp

Even though the field has systematically moved from Miller's "immediate memory," to "short-term memory," and currently to "working memory," many practitioners are still back in the 1950s. Even Miller's original "seven" has been shown to be untrue. For example, Broadbent (1975) suggested that the working memory capacity was actually 4-6 items, MacGregor (1987) reported that it was only four items, and LeCompte (1999) argued that it was actually about three items.

References

Baddeley, A. (1992), Working memory, Science, 255, 556-559.

Broadbent, D.E. (1975), The magic number seven after fifteen years. In A. Kennedy and A. Wilkes (eds.), Studies in Long-Term Memory, New York: Wiley, 3-18.

Brown, J. (1958), Some tests of the decay theory of immediate memory, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 10, 12-21.

LeCompte, D. (1999), Seven, plus or minus two, is too much to bear: Three (or fewer) is the real magic number, Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 289-292.

MacGregor, J.N. (1987), Short-term memory capacity: Limitation or optimization? Psychological Review, 94(1), 107-108.

Miller, G.A. (1956), The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information, The Psychological Review, 81-97.

Peterson, L.R. and Peterson, M.J. (1959), Short-term retention of individual items, Journal of Experimental Psychology, 58, 193-198.

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Tom

Information Visualization Definitions

http://www.infovis-wiki.net/index.php?title=Information_Visualization

Information visualization (InfoVis)
produces (interactive) visual representations of abstract data
to reinforce human cognition and perception;
thus enabling the viewer to gain knowledge about the internal structure of the data and causal relationships in it.

Information visualization (InfoVis)
is the communication of abstract data
through the use of interactive visual interfaces.
[Keim et al., 2006]

and there are a lot more.

Follow a course to an end

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right.
To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.
 
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Visual Thinking and Communication Description

To someone within the Visual Thinking and Communication Community.

CLiC Pictures provide a powerful way to organize ideas around the parts and progressions of life.

Breaking this down into components ...

CLiC Pictures provide

a powerful way

to organize ideas

around ...

the parts of life
the progressions of life

4 Cs 3 Is

CLiC Pictures are a tool, an instrument to act on ideas.

Know --> Feel --> Do

Verbs
Catch
Critique
Collect
Communicate

Nouns
Information
Ideas
Insight

A Better Mousetrap

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mousetrap is an example of something that solves a real world problem.

Drowning ...

A possible introduction to our problem ...

Are you drowning in a sea of information, opportunities, and responsibilities?

CLiCs and CLiC Pictures can help.

By bringing context, familiarity, and the quest for mastery to your conceptual world, you can build a more seaworthy ship to weather the seas of our age.

Conscious Endeavor

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

-- Henry David Thoreau

The Future

Funny Quote of the Day - Charles Kettering

"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."

Making a difference

Hmm ...

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. 

-William James, psychologist (1842-1910)

Categories such as time, space, cause, and number

"Categories such as time, space, cause, and number represent the most general relations which exist between things; surpassing all our other ideas in extension, they dominate all the details of our intellectual life. If humankind did not agree upon these essential ideas at every moment, if they did not have the same conception of time, space, cause, and number, all contact between their minds would be impossible..."

- Émile Durkheim (1912) (@Wikipedia), Le formes elementaires de la vie religieuse

Found on page 122 in Edward Tufte's "Beautiful Evidence"

Internet Quote from this site

CLiCs

description

A new approach to information, insight, and action.
... or ...
A powerful approach to information, ideas, and insight.

themselves

CLiCs

a CLiC is a "Core Life Concept"

visuals

CLiC Patterns
CLiC Pictures

continuums

CLiC Spectrums
CLiC Progressions

A better description - A new approach

A new and powerful approach to information, ideas, and insights.

CLiCs help you ...

• collect and catch ideas from various situations and sources, and then
• connect them to other situations and sources

Great Youth vs. Age Quote

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Stanislaw Lec
 

Howard Gardner - The Good Work Project

http://www.goodworkproject.org/

//Parts/Action/<Resolve> --> Work

"GoodWork is more than a project. It can change our world."
— Frances Hesselbein, Chairman, Leader to Leader Institute

"Your GoodWork Project will continue to evolve and influence in ways
that cannot fully be anticipated—nor directly measured."
— Thomas J. Tierney, Chairman and Founder, The Bridgespan Group

The GoodWork® Project is a large scale effort to identify individuals and institutions that exemplify good work—work that is excellent in quality, socially responsible, and meaningful to its practitioners—and to determine how best to increase the incidence of good work in our society. Read more... - Browse a timeline of our work - Learn about our new Developing Minds and Digital Media Project - Read about our GoodPlay Project - Download The GoodWork Project Overview - Learn about The GoodWork Toolkit

- Daedalus special issue: On Professions and Professionals - Read: Howard Gardner Does Good Work, Strategy+Business - New Book: Responsibility at Work In Responsibility at Work, recently released by Jossey- Bass, Howard Gardner and his colleagues provide an up to date, comprehensive summary of major findings from their decade-long GoodWork Project.

Deep Conceptual Paths

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth,

so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.

To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again.

To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

Henry David Thoreau