I thought i was super smart and “gifted” in high school because the assignments were set up to be that way and it wasn’t until my first semester in college that I realized I was never really as smart as I thought I was, I was just good at memorizing the answers on a test review and regurgitating information

@awesomeferret

2 жыл бұрын

You were though, just at a different task. A very good memory can make you a lot of money. Go to law school or something.

@montanajoyce6253

Жыл бұрын

There are different kinds of intelligence, and you are not more or less intelligent than someone else just because your abilities are easier to measure than others might be. Don't be so hard on yourself!

Art classes, gone. Shop classes, gone. Recess, gone. Opportunities for creative thinking have been all but eliminated in favor or simple easy to administer tests. In school I struggled greatly against standardized tests but excellent at projects or papers that allowed me room to be creative. It wasn't until public education was being me that that I started learning to love the learning process. Now in college I find the same annoying trite BS I found in public education only now I have to pay for it. Honestly its rather soul-crushing but I do it because I want to make something of my self. You have me on board with all of this accept for the part about business. In my experience many but not all business higher-ups want people who will do as their told, not ask questions and not be creative or venturing outside the box created by the marketing team. They may SAY that's what they want, but in practice if you decided to find a better position for someone not meeting sales numbers, even if that position benefited the company directly, both of you would be fired and replaced on peter principle.

Even though I am in college I started following his DSRP not very long ago..... it was like 5 months ago that I saw his TED TALK . I have improved my grades!!!!!!! and also got an internship because they think that my thinking can help their company grow!!!!

@johannjpg

Жыл бұрын

Bro is manifesting

I am glad to be taking this course because I think, Thinking Critical is an absolute necessity for Life's every day chore. True Mr. Nunez, understanding things are good, but it is also good to be able to Think a Problem out in a more scientific way. To come to a rational decision about a problem (medical, criminal, or financial). While thinking independently can be scary, it is also exciting.

Brilliant talk. I understand exactly what he means.

I like Dr. Cabrera's ideas about breaking apart and reconstructing. And taking multiple perspectives--perspective thinking.

Something I learned from Dr. Richard Paul and Dr. Linda Elder. It is a GREAT description of the process of thinking: "Whenever we think, we think for a purpose, within a point of view, based on assumptions, all of which have implications. We use data, facts, and experiences to make inferences and judgements based on concepts or theories, to answer a question, or to solve a problem." Thinking is a SYSTEM. That's why your kids couldn't think. They had no practice in this process. In order to think you have to first understand that thinking IS a process, and that process has certain common fundamental elements, and that those elements are interrelated to one another in a system. Your kids are treating knowledge as though they were marbles in a bag--each marble separate from one another. But knowledge is a web of concepts. Everything is related to everything else. This web is useful--it's like a catcher's mitt. You can catch new concepts with it, like catching a ball. Try catching a ball with a single marble. No matter how many marbles you have--it's useless when it comes to making sense of new information, or charting a course forward with the information you have now, if you don't recognize it as a system.

I think this has to be in my top 3 best TED talks I've ever heard.

Wonderful and enlightening explanation of how we can move forward with COIVD and anything else that is coming our way.

In the philosophical/experiential sense, "thinking" is a stream of thoughts that are experienced by the individual. For most people thoughts appear primarily in language (words), for a small minority they are more often experienced as images. Nobody can predict what their next thought will be - nobody, ever. That is just an interesting fact that many people never "think" of. That fact calls into question the very concept of agency, but I will leave that alone. The question that nobody ever asks, probably for fear of falling into an infinite regression (loop), is "In what form does a thought arise in the brain?". Does it emerge first as an impulse, a pre-verbal sort of intuition (not in words)., and then get "dressed up" in words? Or does it "somehow" arise fully formed in language? I have never heard/read that question addressed by anyone. Food for "thought"?

If you don't learn to think, someone will be more than happy to think on your behalf. Gov

I completely agree - a massive part of teaching should be about getting pupils to understand the process behind their learning rather than always focussing on the final outcome. For example students can often solve a problem if they are given the 'structure' or 'ladder' of instructions on how to do so - but as Carbrera mentioned it is often when students are not given the EXACT thinking process needed in order to solve a problem that is when they struggle. They lack creativity. The thinking process should demonstrate intuition and they should be taught how to think differently rather than how to follow a sequence of instructions. Much of what we see in education today is 'teaching to the test'. We often teach children the knowledge but do not actually show them what they can do with it. In the way he says the 'system is broken' I completely agree. We need to teach our children to be unique.

I love this.

I dont think people are smart based on their degree. I think it shows a lot of hard work, and a level of thinking for people to get there, but I don't believe they are thinkers just for getting a degree or recognition for a level of education. It bugs me when people put those with degrees above thinkers who do not display a degree. Well, it's a balance.

brilliant and i love your message!

I wish TedxTalks posted some of the Q&A sessions after the talks.

@stargazerrz Indeed, different people think differently. However, my experience tells me that differently thinking people think well because they draw distinctions, see relationships and systems, and draw upon various perspectives apart from their own. I have not met people who think well who do not possess and utilize these skills. Together, these lead to innovation.

Vote 4 Derek 🔝

A way of thinking provides a way of seeing the world. If you believe your thoughts, that is the exclusive way you see the world.

unique talk!

Totally agree.

Excellent! I regret to report the agencies I've worked for dont want the employees to think. They want mindless robots. I'm all for this Professor.

@stargazerrz if there is no pattern to how we think, then there is no need to study the human mind (e.g., because it is patternless, it cannot be understood). the four thinking structures (DSRP) actually create creativity and innovation; the don't diminish it. We shouldn't be afraid of universality in the mind...that everyone uses the same 4 structures doesn't mean that everyone has the same thoughts. Thinking is infinite, but its underlying structure is constant.

Excellent

Great!!!

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Sounds like the Trivium Method. 😊 Been studying it recently and it's precisely what he seems to be promoting.

@justgivemeanumber8215

2 жыл бұрын

Cool thanks

Nice message

I’m using this video to study

if I didn't misunderstand anything, then it's all basically about forming connections right?

Awesome

The International Baccalaureate Diploma is getting it right -- all curricula should be following their example

Thinking is more Mystikal than we think.we are gods programming In a perfect matrix.we are perfect robots that already are progeammed. the possibilitys of thoughs are ready excited. We can't think alone.we get help from multidimensional energy's (higher self..angels.., protector's..) with respect for our freechoice . Thinking is the contact point with multidimensionality, to act in 3D.The experiences and the teachings are the potentials for the action in 3D . But we can always try to get closer to our high self and shift to higher dimensions for a beter, correct and smart thinking. This is the only way.

We need more comments.

@iLuv3POINT14

3 жыл бұрын

Happy

google kickstarter and thinking at every desk (youtube doesn't allow links)

Your thinking mind is a sense organ like your eyes, ears, etc. The proof of this is that you don't know what you are going to think next. The only sense in which you are the author of a thought is that it is sensed by your mind.

We are in 21st century and in most education institutions nothing is taught about thinking. Isn't that strange?!

I think thinking is not important. I think, therefore derp. Jk. I'm glad to see concern over the stupid masses of young adults who don't understand anything to any depth. No creativity sounds like a sad story to me. No epiphanies or moments of realization sounds like a damn shame. I love simply coming to understand things. How does this work? Wow this is kind of like that! Whoa ok so don't do that, what if I do this? Is this really the best I can do? In order to get everyone in the group moving I have to give them success and responsibility. I recognize feeling slow, so I snap out of it and get back to work. Just some stuff that goes through my head.

@Chad_Fuckhammer

8 жыл бұрын

I think a thought thinks of us before we think we think of thoughts to think about; 7th dimensionally speaking of course. Just a thought. I also think what we think are human languages are foreign technologies to humans since babies are humans and everyone enters as a baby without any known language and people generally lose their memory of being a baby not long after learning an alien language. Doesn't seem at all possible for humans to be the origin of language. I don't even think we're smart enough to have been that responsible for such a technology. I think its safe to say we have no known way to conceive in our minds where language has come from. Unless there was a time when their was a freakishly high rate of mute couples giving birth to brilliantly colorful talking babies with futuristically advanced telecommunications skills to parent their parents with. Stewart Griffin ...

Ive been looking for a Tedtalk about multiple thinking but i havent found any. Ive been searching on articles about it as well but all i could find is multiple intelligence..i am wondering if you can explain to me why my brain is capable of thinking two things at the same time, like i was working on my paper, at the same time my brain is battling either to be rational or emotional over a certain personal matter.. this happens most of the time. And by the way,i am also capable of multi tasking, i dont know if it has something to do with my ability to multi think.

@lindal5186

Жыл бұрын

If I explain it using the Emergenetics profiling tool, you have a strong inclination towards Analytical Thinking and Social Thinking. These are 2 different styles of thinking that commonly exist. There's 2 other styles too - Conceptual Thinking and Structural Thinking. Although these 4 styles make up possible thinking styles, the truth is our mind has habits and we like to rely on 1 or 2 as our default.

Cause school kills divergent thinking..why!? that's like a prison for the mind. Anyone who can read the teacher's course material and retain the information found in the books (written by some guy, for who knows what, for who knows why) can pass the class. Thats simple. Students arent asked to think on their own or bring various perspectives to the problem or information. Welcome to the endoctornation system of current education. we're all genius we have juat forgotten we are. Or rather been condition over the years (programmed) to think other wise.

If the mind is without patterns (random), then there's no need to study the mind. People think different things, but they don't think differently. In the same way that people walk to different places, but the underlying mechanics of walking are the same. Your methodical way question.. Absolutely not. Quite the contrary. DSRP leads to creativity and innovation. Btw, its not about "getting" people thinking in DSRP--they already do. Its about awareness that they are already DSRPing (metacognition)

I agree entirely. Now can we convince politicians that more tests are not the solution to improving education?

As a teacher I agree with most of this but I fear that the problem goes even deeper than he believes. It's all well and good to teach critical thinking--but if they don't even have the actual facts to do the critical thinking with then it won't matter what they conclude through the process. He makes a comment that to "get kids to think we need to teach them to think about the parts and the wholes that make up the system." But if kids don't even understand the concept of parts and wholes and fractions it's not going to matter. He's makes it clear at the onset that he's thinking about the best students but even here there is such a lack of basic building block skills that I'm not sure it's going to matter. They still need to know the basic facts of WW II to critically discuss the war and come to any truly meaningful conclusion. And most don't know those facts. In my school teaching "upper level" thinking skills is everything--teachers have a large part of their assessment based on this. But if you're debating something in a room you can be using these thinking skills but if you have no foundational facts the output is still junk. I'm a foreign language teacher who has discovered that knowing what a vowel, or adjective, or adverb is is no longer a part of English class apparently because they no longer want to have their kids just "memorizing facts." But if I could just simply say "in the language you're now learning adjectives generally come after the noun whereas in English they tend to come before the noun they reference we would be able to instantly move forward. The actual reason we have a president like we do at the moment is because people can't even agree on what reality is so that they can have a meaningful critically driven debate--although they're convinced that's what they did.

Humanist Manifesto-Dewey. It was his idea to get people to be non-thinkers. He has almost succeeded. Enter Dr. Cabrera, and thank you sir. I am a 61 year old non-traditional student, seeking a second career, studying with young students who stun me by their lack of thinking ability. God help us put Humpty back on the wall again.

imagination is most important, for as you think you imagine.

they all talk about how important it is but never say how to do it

@dudewheresmycube

6 жыл бұрын

Right! Finally someone who presents a reasonable method of how to think and why its important.

I think, therefore I am. If you aren't thinking you're almost irrelevant. Just a statistic.

Good

So he posed the problem that schools aren't teaching kids to think but then five minutes later says the educational system is already teaching his DSRP..

If you are good at memorizing and recall, you can be a straight A student... That is how most schooling system worldwide are setup

saidly, things only got worse after almost 10 years

WHO WILL BUILD MY SPACESHIPS FOR ME, WHEN EVERYBODY WILL THINK ABOUT THEIR OWN ONE?

The battle between academic and practical approaches to learning has resulted in acquisition of knowledge being regarded as more important than using knowledge. Until this situation is redressed we will continue to push to know more and think less. The key issue is those who do not think lack the ability to understand the value and importance of thinking. It is easier than you think to think too! Thinking is no more than designing. Check out Ellen Langer and Mindful Learning.

Great ideas, but bad talk. Give me details and evidence so I can use this in practice.

I'd appreciate some feedback on why so many (perhaps the majority) have no interest in critical thinking or thinking at all (if they believe they can get away with it). I get that life might feel a lot easier or less complicated if you just don't think about much of anything but I don't seem to have that privilege (my brain won't allow it) and I can't understand those who feel they do have the right or privilege. I'm not criticizing. I'm trying to understand how someone can be OK with being 'off'.

@keystothebox

9 жыл бұрын

People find it easier to "Outsource" their thinking to others. This is indoctrinated in nearly all countries. The classical Trivium method identified by Aristotle for freeing your mind is a good start on how to think critically and it was successful for over 2000 years until the 1800's. Background: In the 1800's the Socialist Prussian Education system was instituted to train standardized factory workers. This is the current mindset of the school system that is propagated by the powerful and wealthy. For one reason, politicians find it is easier to control the minds of people who do not think critically. Ironically the word government comes from a Latin phrase that means "Mind Control".. which kinda makes you think about these sorts of things lol.

@notwhatiwasraised2b

9 жыл бұрын

keystothebox Today Me: Whining Her: Let god take on your concerns and worries Me: How does that help get things done Her: You still need to do the work yourself. Me: So why add 'god' to the equation? Her: Because he'll help you through it. Me: How? Her:.... Me: Let me ask you, how do you know yours is the one true god when the vast majority believe in some other god, or not? Her: The Bible says so Me: Do you believe everything in the Bible Her: Well, not all of it Me: No matter how I read the Bible, Qur'an or other religious scripture I find it to be hideous nonsensical man-made BS Her: Well, it's a choice ... Me: Doesn't seem to be any more a choice for me than believing in fairies or unicorns. Maybe those who propose the 'faith gene' are right and I just don't have it. Her: I don't think about it that much or ask those questions Me: Shouldn't you, given what's at stake - heaven, hell, whose right, whose wrong and what should be done with them? Her: I'm not gonna stand here and listen to these criticisms

@notwhatiwasraised2b

9 жыл бұрын

keystothebox By my experience in western education, we are encouraged to question everything and to think critically for ourselves (at least lip service is paid to these concepts despite limitations arising from grading and such). Seems to me the problem is that few want to think, preferring instead to be asked to memorize and regurgitate something for an exam or work performance. I was never good at memorizing but retained information better when I understood it and what might be wrong about it.

@keystothebox

9 жыл бұрын

Greg Pearcey I primary agree. While we are verbally told to question everything as a meme we are actually indoctrinated by our schools, our churches, media, advertising, and our social groups to do the opposite. This conformity is a result of a cognitive bias that currently is strengthened by indoctrination as opposed to corrected. Only a few divergent thinkers, philosophers, and skeptic's even attempt to seriously challenge these mental chains that bind us to mental slavery. The Allegory of the Cave highlights this rather well.

@notwhatiwasraised2b

9 жыл бұрын

keystothebox I disagree. I think we in the west are encouraged to question and think but too many divest themselves of personal responsibility and prefer to take the easier course of memorization/indoctrination. Whether they be too concerned with social acceptance or intellectually lazy, I see indoctrination as something most choose as an easier course to the illusion of certainty. Me, I seem to fine with uncertainty on all fronts, realizing that I can't likely know all available information, much less process it all effectively.

DSRP is great. I would add abstraction and modeling. DARMPS?? It is also important to realize the interplay of conscious reasoning and subconscious association. If you consciously throw out words and ideas at your brain, your subconscious will start to process and if some time later you come back to your mind and throw the same words at your mind, it will respond by putting novel DSRP’s into your conscious mind that you can then consciously manipulate. The cycle iterates until you know ultimately write it down, draw it out or talk to yourself or others about it.

Sadly most of my learning has come outside of any structured environment. When I took on a learning project on my own.

@lindal5186

Жыл бұрын

This is the reason why the 70:20:10 rule exist. 70% of learning for adults should come from Experiential Learning and ONLY 10% should come from Education or Structured Learning.

Getting thinking "back"? It was never there in the first place.

0:25 - Dystopia.

Skills start at 8:10

"John Doe Versus Death"

Teaching how to think...Hmm... What if people have different ways of thinking not part of the 4 modes? Is this tailoring students to think in this methodical way? I really like the reason behind the idea but I think the method should be less structured if the goal is innovation.

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Great video but now we are in 2022 and it looks like we failed. The governed are not thinking.

I think Dr. Cabrera shows much insight on Non-linear thinking. However, I don't believe empathy is a thinking skill. Empathy is a vicarious experience on feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of others....? We shouldn't be sucked in by other's emotion thinking which is not critical thought... What do you think?

@EmmaTOSH

5 жыл бұрын

I agree to an extent but I feel that empathy is maybe more of a learned skill developed through 'trial and error' and experience as you say. Much like other skills we learn empathy must be practised and practised until be behave in the way that is expected of others. We cannot achieve this unless we practise our reactions to others and gauge whether our own reaction was appropriate or not. I also agree with how you say we shouldn't be sucked in by others emotions, more often than not we develop empathy and other skills because it is expected of us, not because it is an innate human instinct. Well said!

Isn't the key word he wants "creativity" rather than 'thinking'? As he says, there is plenty of 'thinking' involved in following the directions to make a lego kit, remembering and categorizing facts, etc, but there is little creativity. Maybe "critical thinking skills" instead of 'thinking skills.' His over reliance on a vague term does not inspire confidence.

Splumpers and plumbers

Apparently this guy doesn't know anything about legos. They have always had kits and sets with instructions. You have always been able to take them apart and make whatever you want, including and especially today. They're called MOCs, short for "my own creations," and the ones kids and adults make now are more complex and creative than ever, because they have so many pieces and techniques to work with. When you make a pterodactyl you can actually make it look like a pterodactyl instead of a big clunky collection of multicolored cubes. Or you can rifle around in a parts bucket, which you have always been able to do. There are collections of bricks, not in a set, you can buy for that purpose. The Lego magazine always had a page specifically where kids could send in pictures and show off what they made. I don't think the Lego Movie had come out yet when this video was created, but that's literally what the movie is about. This is an insignificant thing, it's just an example, but it shows how much this guy doesn't care about reality or the truth. There are just as many creative, talented kids and thinkers as there ever were. The thing is, if you shunt them all into college, which we do at a greater rate than ever before, they're not suddenly going to demonstrate "common sense" or mastery. Common sense isn't learned in school. The lack of common sense has much more to do with the disintegration of the family, parenting, the community, and face-to-face communication, and a decline in general knowledge about practical skills like cooking, cleaning, and repair. No amount of tweaking, educational fads, and buzzwords is going to fix that. If kids are full of knowledge and information, that's a job well done.

@lindal5186

Жыл бұрын

I've played with Lego all my life (and I'm 48 now) and I don't recall old Lego kits being so prescriptive in what you are supposed to build. It was just generic blocks and I much prefer it that way so I can exercise my own creativity. These days it is difficult to find buckets of generic pieces because every box is thematic with detailed instructions for building. So many of its pieces are so specifically designed that it cannot be used for anything else. And I hate being told what I am supposed to build so I would never buy those kits.

Uhm.. agree with the criticism of the current system... But you didn't propose quite anything concrete or specifical nor new different exercises, instead just vague nice phrases or skills I agree are desirable, but how do you actually implement them? You teach all those wonderful skills to kids, but you don't show evidence that that is happening, looks empty words to me :/

wants to "throttle" customer service representatives for not making him feel special enough, pulls a quote from the dec. of independence where the government says "we get our power from us all consenting on having power" which is so cyclical it's nonsensical .... but he totally misses the initial error in the statement and uses it to support his opinion - really just using the declaration as a "buzz resource". He has some valid points but man does he seem patronizing. Maybe you should look somewhere other than ivy-league classrooms for the critical thinking, its your fault for thinking they were the "smartest of the smart" tbh.

what if "thinking" has always been, and will always be, done by just a small portion of the human species. if so, he hasn't discovered a problem. he's discovered a phenomenon. the system of education may simply filter out most of the naturally skilled "thinkers". hence, his observation in ivy league schools.

It's not clear what you mean by "thinking", and therefore, your point is unclear to me. Your claim is that students don't learn to "think"? What exactly do you mean by that? The broadness of the word makes it very unclear what you are actually talking about.

@audiovision2818

8 ай бұрын

“Thinking is simply a process of structuring information and doing something with it.” “To teach our children to recognize relationships between and among ideas.” From the presentation

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We should start banning on some Tv and radio programs that usually tell you what to do without much thinking effort

@arthurclarke983

9 жыл бұрын

maestria quito That's exactly the wrong approach! To do that requires that Someone Else determine what is good and what should be banned. Far better to encourage people to learn to see the garbage for what it is.

@Chad_Fuckhammer

8 жыл бұрын

I think there should be a law that anyone that gives mindless instructions without being asked for them by a consenting set of ears should be forced to either chew and swallow box of Legos rendering them toothless like newborns or be forced to work at the Lego factory as a slave with room and board and no pay for seven years.

"How thinking works" Disappointing talk, a very false title

no fucking shit....

Ok boomer