@ricky cool in the way it flows, interesting that way to, heh but doesnt give much insight into the topic.
RabbitWho(the emboldenings are like the titles of each paragraph, so you know what it's about and can find it easily)
(i just learned a bit about gender disphorea) now that i think about it thought, it seems that problems like procrastination are just
sub-problems, symptoms if you will, and can be lumped into a whole "avoidance" sort of catagory ie. lieing, cheating, procrastinating, denying/ignoring, and that it might be more useful to talk about how these are responses to problems with the way you fit into a system, either with the way you think or the way the system is itself.. or both.. and ways to go about fixing that..
it's important to clarify that i wouldn't consider things like gender disphorea or homosexuality as mental health problems, that's genetic, so i mean the
environmental stuff like if you are considering stealing but are having troubles figuring out why it's wrong than there should be a directory of logical, easy to read, written walkthroughs for thought processes pertaining to how to handle the particular problem at hand.
problems where you would say to yourself,
"i don't understand what's going on here" so anything from whats wrong with stealing, to how to spot obsession and what's wrong with that, to what love is (like minus sexuality and obsession) and why and how to foster it with as many people as possible, not just a potential spouse, et cetera. right now i could write the articles for those subjects, but something i really want to know about is getting through a state of addiction, and how to get on top of and work on ideas that you think are good ones.. (among other things i have a pretty strong sort of addiction for videogames. it seems though that for thing's you're obsessed with, (like in middle school bf/gf relationships) one of the best things is to have the object of your obsession ripped from you.)
the
"What the Flip..." project, the idea is to give detailed briefings on problems and what you can do about it, correct? i think the solution to the whole mental/social problems category can be summed up by saying be existential. that is to say don't accept anything as true, keep questioning, keep discussiong, keep thinking.
but i think the first world
educational system as a whole is one thing that ought to be in an article for What the Flip..., and that's an article i could write. i've talked to tons of my teachers about it and i have a pretty good idea of what's wrong and how to fix it.
(i started this idea talking about the moon tutors triad project)
first thing that needs to happen is for there to be a working model of a new educational system (what better place to perfect such a model then on the moon?).. as to what the model entails, i think a program similar to that on the movie
Accepted. there'd be a directory of teachable/discussable subjects, starting with the traditional ones, moving to the more abstract subjects that somebody feels profficent enough to be able to teach about, and then the subjects that aren't already there that someone thinks ought to be (so that someone else can sign up to write the briefing on the subject and be a tutor for it, or if no one knows about it, for the subject to be discussed).
so when you click on a directory subject, say math, there'd be a basic explaination and summery of applications and under that, subsections (the basic points or ideas), then if you click on say algebra, under it would be something similar: summery, applications, subsections. say you click on plotting a graph using variables, then it would give a summery, and a walkthrough on how to do it in different situations, practice problems if you wanted them, and if you still were having troubles a list of qualified people to tutor you.
I think this sort of model where you learn what you want, get personal attention from anyone in the community who is good at the subject you want to learn about, and discuss new subjects, would make for the absolute fastest/most-inclusive(no child left behind but for real)/most-effective educational system ever devised
I guess it'd be a lot like wikipedia, except a lot more userfriendly, and a lot more organized/structured so that it could be used as an effective self educational system.
... and i guess mental problems like mentioned before would be one of those standard catagories like math.
well the
daniel goleman thing was uh... ok... basicly all i caught from it is that there's a whole social intelligence that goes into productivity and the way people work that is just as if not more important than regular IQ, but that we don't really know much more about it than that.. that's a duh, but i wouldn't call it social intelligence.
I mean it is social intelligence, but i wouldn't put a label on it like that untill everyone gets it. it would be easily testable, and fosterable as soon as someone did a little studying and came up with concrete ideas as to
what the facets of it are.as described in this video here, the problem is that people think of intelligence as behavior, but it's not, it is predictions. it's perceptions, and it's values, and the ones that adhere the most to reality and function the most benifitially are the values and perceptions that would give you a high EQ. safe to say that the most existential people (those who constantly confront not just traditional ideas but all ideas, those who wonder why things are, those who are not just open to but seek out and feel the need to understand new points of veiw, those who constantly analyze and try to operate with the least bias) are the ones who have the highest EQ because they are constantly refining their ideas of how to function well.
one of the problems i keep running into when trying to
push for inovation and expanding knowladgeability are summed up in two quotes. "what if i don't want to use the new thing? the old thing works just fine" "i don't want to know everything, life would be boring that way". i'm thinking i need to study literature from the southern rennaissance when creative people from twenties US had to deal with this whole willful ignorance idea..
something different but equally important!!
how do you go about
getting other people to accept your standards of living as their own. i have my own to keep myself healthy and happy (be positive towards everyone and everything but approach things objectively, question everything, never talk about anything you won't care about in a years time, stand against unreasonable ideas, always be fit enough to do handstands muscle ups and seven minute miles) and to some extent just leading by example works, and a lot of our culture and coorperations influence what these standards are. (standards being from living standards to what we see as important to our values). but i want to know how to easily, effectively and quickly change people standards.. or not so much to change them to your own, but get people to logically consider their standards and be there with your own logical conclusions... not brainwashing i swear
, because along with that would be that hopefully the other peeps would improve upon your ideas of what the standards ought to be..
how do you get people to
stop being passively accepting and defensive of instilled ideas? (like from using silverware to dispising nudity and swearing, to the practice of christmas, things that dont make a whole lot of sense when you sit down and think about it, but things that people ignorantly defend none the less, just because it's "the way things are done around here".)
Thanks for your time and consideration,
Tanner
