Yijun He EDS 223 - Design Thinking The Culture of Possibility Fall 2019 Diaz, Dalla Costa, Jackson, Lerman, Neretti, Rohd, Rocchi, Roumain
Process of design thinking is an approach breaking down the whole project into several small mangeable processes. It is an approach applys to designers in fileds. Together with course contents and using this methodology, we managed to sort them into distinct areas. This book contains my reflections of five different topics related to environmental design including Story, Place, Purpose & Practice, Civic Life and Knowledge.
CONTENTS I - STORY Design Thinking Reflection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg.6 Who I Am. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg.8 School Life and Expectation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg.10 Exploration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg.12 Story and Design. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg.14 II - PLACE Reflection on The Danger of Single Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg.16 Design and Building. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg.18 Empathize in Design Thinking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg.20 Define in Design Thinking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg.22 Culture Sustainability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg.24 III - PURPOSE & PRACTICE Love and Family. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Self Belonging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Find Out the Purpose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . My Purpose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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IV - CIVIC LIFE Reflection On Habits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg.34 How Community Shapes Citizens. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg.36 Civic Life. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg.38 Civic Terminology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg.40 What is Civic Engagement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg.42 V - KNOWLEDGE Knowledge Mangement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Knowledge Inheritance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Intelligence and Knowledge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Is Knowledge Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Why Knowledge Matters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Design Thinking Reflection It was a great opportunity to have five professional professors in their own fields to spend time talking about their understandings of design thinking with us in class. It is a profound experience to me that participating a class like this to learn about design thinking in a such a way. With the design thinking process introducing to us, I want to share about the learning outcomes of mine and some thoughts to improve problem-solving skills and to be more creative during design process. Learning outcomes: • To figure out and understand users’ desires • Designing will never be a paper work but as a tool to change society • Digging deeply for the reason why to do so • Actively communicates with users for feedbacks and shares design process • Coming out with creative and anomalous solutions to address problems • Thinking outside of the box Among the six steps of design process, I find Empathize, Ideate and Test are the most significant. I classify Empathize, Define and Ideate into receiving and Prototype and Test into responding. I believe that collecting various information can help designers have a rough comprehension and to define problems before starting design. My father used to be an architectural designer and one time he brought me with him to let me see and realize the purpose of communication.
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I am impressive on a story of him about a mistake he made when he designed a house for a family. The family was living in a province far away from where we were at that time, after my father finished the design and showed to them, they declined it totally and asked for a new one because the design did not conform the traditional style that they expected. The fact was the region where the family lived had a tradition that people there like to unify house appearance in one standard style and my father was not awarded of this situation. Unlike my father focus on Test mode, I find all five modes are equally important. Empathize can be practiced keeping eyes on tiny thing in daily lives. To practice Ideate, I find traveling around can broaden mind and learn new things from others. On Monday’s class, what impress me is that we need to be innovative, thinking outside of the box to think about how we can apply knowledge to the fields beyond our profession to make changes.
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Who I Am
In class activity, I had a conversation with person sitting next to me with the topic of introducing who you are. It sounds like an easy topic at first and I was going to talk a lot about myself. But when I opened my mouth ready to start talking, I stopped, because my brain suddenly went blank and I couldn’t say a word. Then I realized I have been suspecting myself that am I qualified enough to say who I have been imaging myself to be. For so many years I have pretended I have the potential to become who I want to be, and I believe it is true. When I was a child, I played the piano on stage in front of hundreds of people in stadium. It was a performance I can’t remember until my mother showed me the picture. My parents used to encourage me to keep playing the piano, but I end up not to. Again, in the same period, I participated a drawing contest and awarded as the 2nd or 3rd. Still, I doubted my effort for some reasons I can’t name that stops me from making me a better self. And now, taking a look at internal me, it is like a big rock laying in my way with a word “doubt” written on it and I am walking forward and backward all the time.
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School life and Expectation At the beginning of class, Daniel showed us a great performance with his violin. His vivid show showed his enthusiasm on thing he is working on and I believe he was encouraging us to have passion on what we are doing and our life. A simple meaning for the word enthusiasm is to have a keen interest. It means you demonstrate an eagerness and a joy that fills you with energy. If you approach any task without enthusiasm, the task will be laborious. You will find yourself watching the clock waiting for the day to be over. You are just putting in time, bored, unhappy, and truly not enjoying life. But what a difference it makes when you are energized. Like my microeconomy class experience in the first year in ASU. I personally have interest in economy, but that class was required in major map, so I was exhausted in classroom and regretting my decision. Obviously, I did not do well in class and it wasted me so much time. When it came to sketching class in the next semester, I was full of energy that I could spend my day into it. Having enthusiasm not only in work, but also applying to everything you do help constitute and understand the value and merit of a person. Roy T. Bennett used to say” Enthusiasm can help you find the ne doors, but it takes passion to open them. If you have a strong purpose in life, you do not have to be pushed, your passion will drive you there.” With enthusiasm, I find myself wanting to keep working on something rather than waiting to finish a day. From my first impression, Daniel is a person enthusiastic in his career and his life and there is something I learnt from him: • Be optimistic. • Enjoying life because there always something you find enthusiastic. • Keep learning and exploring your field, overcoming the challenges to become a better self.
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Exploration
We were having a different class from ordinary lecture giving class yesterday, we went outside the classroom and talked to classmates we do not know to learn about the person. I find it is reasonable to know each other by doing self-introduction to start a conversation. Neglecting the exaggerated parts, it is an effective way to know a person is to listen to his/her stories/experiences. It was a great conversation yesterday, we shared what we have been going through. In fact, there was a moment I was thinking what stories do I have to tell and I realized how dull my life has been. From primary school to high school, I spent all my student life in school that I hardly have social life outside. It is not a complaint about school life but a desire not to stay in school for five days. Yet, I met my best friends there and are still in contact. W. Durant used to say, “Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance�. This quote accurately hits my feeling of my school life. Other than teaching knowledge in classroom, I prefer bringing the classroom out to the nature, supporting what is taught on textbook by nature, rather than spending all time in classroom.
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Story and Design
Personally, stories are written in books and journals for kids, something can be told to inspire people is called life experience. After a week of learning using story as topic, the work “story” is brought into my learning of design. Taking this class has provided an opportunity to understand how story can related to design and how design reflects on the story you tell. So many times, I have been required to demonstrate homework assigned with a story, in my perspective, I have to blur the boundaries of two things and somehow make them related. I picture it an absurd scenario that I am doing a presentation with a theme I am not familiar without any preparation and I barely did it. Content of this week summarized by instructor, they are categorized according to each professor as: • Defining identity with story • Building relationships/empathy with story • Defining practice & communication with story Their lessons opened my mind to reconsider the application of story in design, not only simply telling people what you did, but enduing your work with emotion and ability of resonation.
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Reflection on The Danger of Single Story
After watching the Ted Talk video by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, first, I am impressive by her speech and, second, I feel shame for having same negative impression about Africa as other people thought she mentioned. I agree with her words that showing people one thing over and over again and it becomes what it is, like what media will do today. For so long we have been completely accepting what media shows us, so we naturally believe we are watching the facts. What also make me ashamed is I keep reminding myself not to make judgement before understanding every aspect, but still make judgement easily without realizing. Father and grandfather told me stories occasionally about what happened when they are young. Their stories are interesting, like toys I can only see from old pictures and hawkers shouts for selling. Today, to implement city beauty, hawkers can’t be seen on the street and I feel like their memories and stories have disappeared, alone with the cultural identity belongs to their generation. As I grew up, I want to listen to grandfather’s anecdotage to know more about him, to image to experience an austere life he had, and to be grateful for having a better life which the senior brings to us. And these are the stories worth passing down generation by generation.
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Design and Building
With each concept, design and building, architects tell a story. Whether the building is a new home, an apartment building, or just the fit up of a commercial space, we tell a story about the function of the space or the community it sits in. Successful buildings do both. Every part of the building tells a story through the details we see in the building, what feelings does the material of door handle gives? Does it relate to the color and the textures of the building? Beyond the details, how does the building tell its story? What kind of story it tells? Characters, setting, conflict, plot and resolution these six elements constitute a complete story. Architecture does not tell a story like story books do, it tells the story of aesthetic and integration of various design elements without collapse. Even though, its story relates to human on any aspects, obscurely or straightly. Obvious example like residential apartment buildings in Hong Kong, where the population density is super high. Their buildings are tall, but each unit is small, like an abyss if you watch it in lateral view. What’s behind its prosperity is the austere lives of most people who will never be able to afford a unit in life time and wait for years for an assigned unit from government. From my memory, those apartment buildings are dark color and I think it somehow represents the condition of most people.
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Empathize in Design Thinking
Empathize, as one of five elements in designing thinking, underlining the role of people. Also empathize is the top value priority in order in my perspective, without understanding what matters to people, no good design can be made. I am lucky to be able to participate in a redevelopment program of a local power station that in history. To upgrade and redesign its environment without demolishing buildings and make it public park that everybody would go to. The empathize of the program I believe will be adding new elements among old factors without causing collision. Empathy is crucial to a human-centered design process such as Design Thinking, and empathy allows design thinkers to set aside their own assumptions about the world in order to gain insight into users and their needs. On the other hand, I find empathy also is a process requiring the most preparation work including but not limited to interview, survey and field research.
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Define in Design Thinking
Place section, known as Define in design thinking process aiming to create a view based on users’ needs. It makes me think of the function of architecture space. Space or rooms are designed to fulfill needs according to users, and usually that space/rooms are multi-purposed and capable of different usage depending on situations. During the define stage, information you collected and sorted will be analyze and then the central problem will be defined, designers then are able to be creatively coming out various of ideas for solution. And I found architectural design matches this field the most. Dividing a large space into several parts and assigning each of them with purposes, satisfying people’s daily needs. Boundaries of problems are sometimes blurry and sharing parts with each other. Like the walls in a building generally meaning to separate apart, but definitely not sole to create this effect. A bar table, long bookshelf, even curtain can function as wall but with more space connecting each other and more convenience is brought to people.
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Culture Sustainability
Instructor Wanda gave an interesting lecture on Wednesday and she showed some absorbing concepts on Cultural Sustainability. One of that is the usage of space is influenced by cultural background. I am resonated with this idea and there is an example. Traditional architecture of southern China constitutes quadrangle impluvium inside their houses for purposes of ventilation and lighting. This building style still being accepted by many in southern China. While in United State the modern architecture, it is more built as courtyard or swimming pool. As unique human invention, the concept of culture provides us a tool to understand specific behavior and its relationship to particular architectural design of different areas in the world. Context of a building contains most of the relevant information of connection between people and the environment and its layout correspondingly reflects on local cultures.
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Love and Family
Taking a look on 10 questions, I am so naturally relating most of them to the themes of love and family on the first sight. Love and family, these two terms are understood distinctively and widely defined in different regions on the world. Later, I searched the information of how others understood love and I found one reading interesting. Written by Rabbi David Wolpe, he said people have been seeing love simply as a feeling on somebody, an emotional connection linking one person with another people. His idea in the writing pointed out a phenomenon that most people love on emotional level, but not on actional level. I can’t help relating it to myself after finished reading, and I realized I am one of the people emotionally love others. I have strong feeling on my families, we celebrate when good things happened, taking care of each other, offering helps if anyone is in troubles. Yet I am more like a participant than organizer. Being seen as a tradition for centuries, people always say you do not need to take it into practice as long as you are intended to do so, and I think most people in my country have get used to this tradition, we do not do much, but we share feelings.
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Self Belonging
In class yesterday, instructor Liz had us writing down a list of answer to where do I come from and think of something when combining two different things together. Through these activities, I have a better understanding of the belonging of myself and the ability to think widely is being developed. I like the second part the most as I thought it was a effective approach to train the brain in a different way to relate two or three ordinary things together to find something that is shared, could be the memory, a feeling, everything tangible or not tangible can be thought of. It interests me because it is some kind of brain training we do not usually use for teaching in class in my school and I feel like trainings in similar can let students be more creative.
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Find Out the Puspose
Whether the work is enjoyable or not often comes down to how well the job supports our sense of purpose. Where is the work located, the position I hold, and broader sense of purpose are subject to change. Therefore, it is essential to have a balance between these three and not be afraid of career transitions or change itself. Having a sense of purpose in life is essential to well-being. Equally important is having a sense of purpose in role at work. There is never a stop to continually search and find the sense of purpose in what you are doing as circumstances change. As our life is short, it is very meaningful to find out something that you have a sense of purpose, something that not determined by others but yourself. Below are some ways I think helpful: • Find out the motivation. • Examine personal goal and find medium can support it. • Identify self’s values Then, make a schedule of the day—to balance both work and interests to ensure at least one thing is related to those values, skills and interests as often as possible. By planning time into a day to connect with what matters the most and by making sure to make time to grow, you can reignite a sense of purpose.
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My Puspose
Believe what other people are telling you about you. When someone tells you that you are kind, talented, loving, smart, courageous, etc. believe them. Do not take these words lightly, they are your gifts to the world. Own them, develop them, share them. Language is powerful beyond measure. The words you speak carry energy; choose wisely how you speak to yourself. Choose uplifting, powerful language over self-deprecating, or mediocre talk. The words you speak are the house you live in. Silence is golden. Within silence, we can find a deep inward connection to ourselves. Silence is the space where our truth comes into awareness; it is the space where everything slows down and becomes clear. It’s where you notice that raspberries have little hairs sticking out of them. Welcome silence in, often. My purpose is within me. Always. Even on days that I don’t feel it - it has always been there and will always be. My purpose is my truth. And that, is to be an intuitive and powerful leader that holds space for people to become the truest version of themselves. This means that when I am at my best self, I am connected to myself and create the space for others to do the same, with love and compassion.
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Reflection On Habits
We’re all familiar with the idea that habits are important, that we are what we repeatedly do. What we do should reflect our purpose, the values that guide us. Something that distinguishes talented people from ordinary people foremost is whether they are living their values. They consult values such as trust, character, focus, priorities, engagement, and telling the truth, when making decisions. Values are lived through talent processes because they touch everyone. Values are the “who we are” and “what we aspire to become” and the talent practices and habits inside people are the how. Habits are the actions we take every day to achieve our goal. And I saw an interest phrase from internet, said “Customers want to buy from companies that they feel reflect their own values”. It took me a moment to think of some examples and I realized it is so true. Habits will change, but values and purpose will not. It is very depending on how we adapt unchanging ideas to fit a constantly changing world. We might change our habits to accommodate a new technology or product whenever it comes out, but we do not change our purpose or values. For me, I sometimes feel challenging translating the ideas into actions and make it part of my daily life over long term. Not because I can not cultivate a new one, the reason is it is hard to make it last long and I personally will go back to the old habits.
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How Community Shape Citizens
Better space can help create better citizens. Safer, healthier, and more accessible neighborhoods breed better attitudes. Positive attitudes foster participation and empower the public to take part in the electoral process to shape their neighborhood. Impacting people’s perceptions is not easy, the shifts on attitude are shaped by the public environment. It is impossible to rethink everything about the community, but small changes made are enough to improve people’s live and their attitude to their neighborhoods. To see if there are big findings in small changings, methodology is a good way to give it a test. When we are trying to find out how the shift of environment can make a difference, such as holding a meeting in a chamber and in a public space respectively. Or, when asking people to fill in a survey, giving more options to choose between “yes” and “no” to avoid potentially forcing the interviewers to pick an option. Browsing online, the Assembly Civic Engagement Survey found that a popular park can help facilitate civic trust, including great satisfaction with local government.
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Civic Life
Civic life is local and personal -- we have people and spaces that can show us how to reach across the divide and help us to see the different ways to participate and why they matter. These models of civic participation inspire us, and the skills, knowledge, and habits they exhibit can serve as a learning tool for us all. These individuals and groups have taught me a lot about what civic participation can look like and what we need to do it well. What is good citizenship? Answered by Westheimer and Kahne, they gave three conceptions: Personally responsible, Participatory and Social Justice oriented. Their concepts help me to look beyond the traditional framing of civic participation as voting. The idea of practicing citizenship is key, especially within conflict. The ability to understand, consider alternative perspectives, advocate, compromise, and even change our mind through those conflicts is essential and takes practice to build mastery.
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Civic Terminology
INCLUSIVENESS: Demonstrate an ability to engage respectfully with others in a diverse society. APPLICATION OF KNOWLEDGE: Apply the knowledge from one’s own study and experiences to active and ethical participation in civic life. DEMONSTRATION OF CIVIC IDENTITY AND COMMITMENT: Provide evidence of experience in and reflection on civic engagement activities. CIVIC COMMUNICATION: Communicate and listen to others in order to establish personal and professional relationships to further civic action. ENGAGEMENT IN CIVIC ACTION AND REFLECTION: Demonstrate the ability to deliberate and collaborate on issues and problems to achieve a civic aim. IDENTIFY ISSUE: Identify and interpret a problem or issue. DETERMINE NEEDS: Determine the resources needed. GATHER RESOURCES: Gather resources effectively and efficiently. EVALUATE RESOURCES: Evaluate resources critically. UTILIZE RESOURCES: Utilize resources effectively and creatively to innovate and/or to accomplish a specific task. ASSESS RESULTS: Assess and evaluate results.
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What is Civic Engagement
Civic engagement or civic participation is individual or group activity addressing public concern issue. Being individual or acting in group to make a change within a community or protect community value are typical types of civic engagement. I am taking EDS 301 this semester and we are lucky to have chance getting involved in designing a process of renewal for Danelle Plaza. Class instructor invited business owners in the Plaza to class to talk us some history about how this place have changed; and community members around Plaza to talk about how they are connected with that place. I feel like it is part of civic participation as people’s voice is heard; their thoughts are under consideration. For me, it is also a useful experience to participate and understand the working process of dealing with community as a “designer”, even though we are not designing actual objects but a process. After so much time we have spent, one of the instructors told us an interesting news that very few people know, even the business owners, that the place is called Danelle Plaza after having business there for decades. Retrieve from The New York Time, I found out a definition of Civic Engagement easy to understand for me. Edited by Thomas Ehrlich, Excerpted from Civic Responsibility and Higher Education, said “Civic engagement means working to make a difference in the civic life of our communities and developing the combination of knowledge, skills, value and motivation to make that difference. It means promoting the quality o life in a community, through both political and nonpolitical processes.”
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Knowledge Mangement
Knowledge management includes a series of strategies and practices that define, creating, disseminate, and adopt new knowledge and experience within the enterprise. This knowledge and experience includes cognition, which can be personal knowledge, as well as business processes or practices in the organization. Knowledge management is an academic and business application theme that has risen globally since the mid-1990s. It actively and actively recognizes, creates, masters, uses, shares, and disseminates explicit and tacit knowledge owned by individuals and communities. Effective management. It mainly covers the inherent theory and application levels including learning organizations, corporate culture, information technology applications, and personnel management. And because the concept of knowledge management is often related to the various improvement visions of enterprises, the practice of knowledge management in today’s enterprises has been increasingly valued, which has also brought many business opportunities for consultants and technology companies. Knowledge management is also widely used in non-commercial applications. Wikipedia is often referred to as one of the most successful knowledge management systems on the Internet. The level of knowledge can be divided into four stages: data, information, knowledge and wisdom. The formation of knowledge is to collect some data and then find useful information from the data. Use this information to add your own ideas and methods , In the end, knowledge is generated, and wisdom is based on knowledge plus personal application abilities and applied to life
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knowledge Inheritance
Professor Wanda presented an interesting lecture of how knowledge is inherited. In her lecture, I found a quote drew my attention to the topic: “These long-resident knowledge systems contain extensive information regarding not only how to maintain but also to steward biodiverse ecosystems�. The first half part makes sense to me, what provoked me thinking is the second half. I have been considering inheritance of knowledge is vertically passing down from previous people, through books, experience, multiple media and by oral. What I never think about is that knowledge is able to derivative relate knowledge in other fields to benefit us. In class, Wanda introduced four methods of how people inherit knowledge and re-engage the restorative community education process. They are Contemporary, Traditional, Revealed and Empirical. Contemporary is method we gain knowledge through experience, education and problem solving, which is a common way we do. Traditional way means we handed down knowledge or understanding based on stories we tell and experiences over time. Revealed way means knowledge gained from what we see, like some ritual and ceremony. While Empirical means that knowledge gained from careful observation and practice through time. From my perspective, Contemporary, Traditional and Empirical, these three methods are reasonable to me in real life. In my culture, very few knowledge is inherit in Revealed way and I naturally will separate information from ritual and ceremony and information from the others three ways. I do not think these information are in the same type and I feel the need to do so.
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Intelligence and Knowledge
Intelligence is a term easily cause disagreement by people. Some people think that intelligence is an ability deep in our genies allowing us to acquire and apply knowledge and technique, it is knowledge we gain obtain from education. While some groups of people believe it is something beyond education, instead, the summary of experience we have acquired through our life. Personally, I am for the point of view of second group of people. Not all information can be passed down by education. When there are information, we receive them by reading , smelling and hearing, then the brain functions to sort them and keep it in mind. According to different frequence of information repeating, we start to memorize and not easy to forget them and that is how we learn. But there are information can not be delivered in the way we usually do, we can only achieve it by feeling through body. Everything we learn is useful, it gives us a sense and ability to understand how things are organized from micro to macro. Knowledge and skills makes up intelligence to help us come to understand things happens around us. Children inherit practical intelligence, which is the knowledge that comes from the way your parents communicate with you. So is intelligence can be inherited from family?
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Is Knowledge Power
Phrase “scientia potentia est” is Latin aphorism meaning “knowledge is power”. Commonly attributed to Sir Francis Bacon, but there is no known occurrence of this phrase in Bacon’s English or Latin writings. Yet, it occurs in Bacon’s Meditationes Sacrae (1957). Credit: Wikipedia From the first sight I see this phrase, I am motivated and feeling full of energy to thrive my life by this positive. I can not say everybody will feel the same but at least I feel that way. It makes me look back my life to review what I did right and what I did wrong, making promise to myself to keep learning. Michael Schrage gives an opposite opinion upon this. He believe knowledge is not power, the ability to act on knowledge is power. His idea interests me a lot. According to him, perfect knowledge is pure knowledge, it will not change the behavior you act because our behavior is formed so strongly by our own culture that making people difficult to act upon knowledge. He believe many of us do not have the ability to act on the knowledge we possess.
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Why Knowledge Matters
Only knowledge sets us apart from others. In today’s world, a person should be a multitasking person, only possible if he / she has so much knowledge about everything. In today’s world, knowledge is power, and knowledge can only become the survival tool of that person. Life never stops teaching us. Life always teaches us a lesson. Even if we like and dislike it, that lesson is our only knowledge. Therefore, never stop learning. If we stop learning, then life will not stop teaching. Remember also that knowledge comes from experience. Experienced people have more knowledge than inexperienced people. Where does this experience come from? When we do something in life. If life never stops, why do we want it? Knowledge is a way to understand, but this is just the beginning. When you learn something new, you can incorporate these novel ideas into the way you see the world, and your vision can grow into a new form of consciousness. For me, the first time I consciously remembered it was when I was walking in a stream. I was a student at the time, studying ecology, and I knew a lot about river habitats, but although I didn’t realize it, what I learned was just an exhaustive list. But just as I was observing what happened, before I knew it, I unconsciously named what I saw. At that moment of unprotection, separation gradually disappeared, and previously invisible connectivity appeared Up: a gestalt. So keep learning and gaining knowledge, because that’s what life means.
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