tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post4091974022192664978..comments2024-03-28T03:31:42.278-07:00Comments on Chiron: ProcessRoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08483616030072739190noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-37815732844227380152009-12-28T21:45:55.136-08:002009-12-28T21:45:55.136-08:00The book "Why Don's Students Like School?...The book "Why Don's Students Like School?" by Daniel Willingham has a chapter (6) titled 'What's the Secret to Getting Students to Think like Real Scientists, Mathematicians, and Historians?' I think that this chapter might be applicable here. The point of the chapter is that "Cognition early in training is fundamentally different from cognitions late in training."Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17842123561228608863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-72530522321811395152009-12-28T09:12:45.473-08:002009-12-28T09:12:45.473-08:00Dear Fred Ross,
You can have an invitation-only bl...Dear Fred Ross,<br />You can have an invitation-only blog, or a private blog with either Blogger or Wordpress. You send out invitations. Both places are free and neither is difficult to use.<br /><br />Blogger is easier to use but has less features. Wordpress for instance has a symbols keyboard which is good for math, etc. (on the other hand, you pay for video upload feature--not very much). It will let you make private posts even on a public blog. You can look at your posts a long time (with all of the format showing) before you make them public. Or, never.<br /><br />Anyway, I encourage you to try it. You put what I meant very well--forcing clarity. I like that a lot.<br /><br />Ann T.Ann T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11128699035211561119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-82179874052819482832009-12-28T09:06:58.312-08:002009-12-28T09:06:58.312-08:00Like training rookies. It's a hell of a lot ea...Like training rookies. It's a hell of a lot easier to do it than to explain HOW you do it.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14121086704006525841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-15921760319215988712009-12-28T04:29:26.996-08:002009-12-28T04:29:26.996-08:00This is the kind of thing I worried about a lot wh...This is the kind of thing I worried about a lot when I made the transition from theoretical physics to biology. I've never written any of it down in public, and most of it I've never written down. I think it would be useful, but a lot of it would make a lot of enemies that I can't afford right now.<br /><br />And yet, the idea of writing in public as a way of forcing clarity by commitment is enticing. Is there a middle ground?Fred Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14346595409269776793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-11816027602398314352009-12-28T03:25:21.078-08:002009-12-28T03:25:21.078-08:00About the "How to think" part, I found p...About the "How to think" part, I found particularly enlightening the book "The Art of Learning" from Josh Waitzkin. He concentrates on the sports side of things, but provides insight on how elite athletes/martial artists thought process works and relates that to his own experience as a an elite chess player. I know it may not make much sense, but having played competitive chess and practiced martial arts, a lot of that resonated and the learning process is (surprisingly) similar.Danielnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-51475881639521162932009-12-27T21:12:47.108-08:002009-12-27T21:12:47.108-08:00I come at the working professional in violence fro...I come at the working professional in violence from a different angle (street cop/gang detective for a suburban jurisdiction that's at least upper middle class financially). In your book, you managed to put words to some things I'd seen, some things I'd seen the shadows of (if you'll excuse an allusion to Plato), but not been able to identify.<br /><br />And you make me think about some of these things. I'm still trying to get some ideas that you prompted a few months ago to come together... When I think I've got it -- I'll share.<br /><br />(And I'm extremely complimented if anything I've said has helped you. 'Cause you've certainly helped me!)jks9199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-14440677595416331552009-12-27T19:38:03.200-08:002009-12-27T19:38:03.200-08:00Dear Rory,
The truth is, all of us are blogging be...Dear Rory,<br />The truth is, all of us are blogging because We need to. We need the wider world and hope to capture a like-minded audience, people who will help us refine our thoughts.<br /><br />But mostly the act of writing is itself a refinement of our thoughts. Writing gets the already-formulated out of the queue so we can go on to the next step.<br /><br />By posting, we make our process real. The posts are footprints on a track pointing where we are going.<br /><br />When I read a partisan blog, the blog of a dedicated iconoclast, I see no evidence of movement. That is not inspiring to me.<br /><br />So, happy to cross your trail from time to time. Don't study martial arts. Find it damned interesting.<br /><br />Sincerely<br />Ann T.Ann T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11128699035211561119noreply@blogger.com