Michio Kaku explains America’s H-1B ‘genius visa’ and declining skilled worker population domestically …

• Extract from NewSell by Michael Hewitt-Gleeson (New York 1984, ISBN 0932648568):

In NewSell, the sale “happens” to the salesperson. It is the prospect who does something to the salesperson, not the other way around. The direction of flow is always from the prospect to the salesperson, passive.

I used to call passive flow the “Studio 54 effect.” At that time a New York disco became internationally famous for the way people (prospects) would do anything to get in. It was an extreme, but very sucessful, example of NewSell. Some say that when Studio first opened, the owner, Steve Rubell, played loud music every night but never let anyone inside. Each night as the crowd outside grew and grew it attracted even more attention. Eventually, when he felt the situation was right, he admitted only the “glitterati”; his success is disco history.

DFQ#001:

As a thinker, what is the main point about this post, in your own considered opinion?

“If you own a mobile phone you must see this …”

Dr Charlie Teo gave the Australia Day Address for 2012 and is acknowledged as one of the world’s leading neurosurgeons. In this 60 Minutess clip he offers the following message for you to consider …
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Global health expert, Professor Hans Rosling, was listed as one of 100 leading global thinkers by Foreign Policy Magazine in 2009.

Here, he does one of his inspired presentations of statistics showing the hopeful development of 200 countries in wealth and health over the last 200 years …

Space gluttons are greedy when it comes to taking up too much space. In a meeting, the space glutton always takes up considerably more than his or her fair share of airtime. Space gluttons may suffer from output mania, the inability to shut-up.

Gathering input by listening to the opinions of others is an important cognitive skill which is crippled in the space glutton. PTV may allow the thinker to wreak such enthusiasm for his or her own ideas that he or she is quite unable to listen to others.

In business, much creativity and productivity is lost in meetings due to those suffering from this condition. This condition is disastrous for those in sales or in management.

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Here below is the very first Membership Application we’ve received for School of Thinking China’s English Thinkers. It is from Yvette of Perth, Western Australia. I’m posting it here today to record a small piece of SOT history and with wishes of good fortune for the year of the Dragon. Interesting that this first member of SOTC comes on such an auspicious day–it sets a positive and hopeful outlook for the coming year.

My best wishes to you for 2012 年行大运

Michael

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Dr Michael Hewitt-Gleeson
Principal
School of Thinking CHINA
www.schoolofthinkingchina.com

Begin forwarded message:

From: Yvette
Date: 22 January 2012 12:04:42 AM AEDT
To: michael@schoolofthinking.org
Subject: Membership Application to English Thinkers

Michael,

Firstly thank-you for all the SOT resources including the lessons, online books, and e-newsletter.

I would like to considered for an invitation to English Thinkers. This is because;

1. I got a lot of value from the previous SOT lessons and from Software For Your Brain & Wombat Selling.
2. I learnt new things that I could actually apply to my life and I could see how they were helping me to think better.
3. I like how ‘big’ subjects are explained clearly in a way I can understand and I like the pictures which help my understanding.
4. I feel that the information will improve my quality of life.
5. I would like to keep practicing thinking skills and this is a good way to implement that.
6. I feel that I will be able to make more than the fees for the course if I can apply what I learn.
7. It seems like a better investment than the uni course I’m doing which costs a lot more.
8. I might go further in my career.
9. The people around me will benefit.
10. It sounds like fun.

I can do online weekly tutorials and daily lessons.

Regards,

Yvette
(Perth, Western Australia)

To you and your family and all your friends who are cheerfully celebrating the New Year of the Dragon.

The 100 lessons of English Thinking are designed to give Members two things: knowledge and virtuosity.

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1. Knowledge

English Thinkers need to know about the history and the three dominant methods of English Thinking:

1. Greek Logic,

2. The Scientific Method, and

3. Cognitive Science.

First, they learn how logic and judgmental thinking and the ideas of the Greek Thinkers–Plato, Socrates and Aristotle–were taken up by the European church through Thomas Aquinas. How these ideas became the cognitive operating system of European thinking and were then spread virally around the world by Christian missionaries and throughout countries like America and Australia 200 to 300 years ago. How, even today, children in these countries are still taught Right/Wrong, Yes/No thinking. And, Western parliaments, legal systems, the media and religious institutions still use pre-Enlightenment dialectic thinking to prosecute their cases and take their decisions.

• ‘The Tree of Life’ from Charles Darwin’s personal notebook •

Second, the great escape from these ideas led to the Enlightenment, Darwinian evolutionary thinking and the Scientific Method–the combined cognitive engine behind the great march of Western science and technology. These methods rely on the value of hypothetical research, repetitive experimentation, measurement and observation and a strategic appreciation of the role of surprise and mistakes. This kind of thinking employs quite different but complementary methods and values to Christian Logic or judgmental thinking. These methods were introduced and spread throughout Western society through universities and scientific journals and the rapid growth of the commercial publishing industry.

Third, since WWII thinkers like Alan Turing empowered the invention of cognitive machines, machines that think, there has been an unprecedented tsunami of interest in computing, networking and the accelerating developments of  cognitive science.

This has led to much faster and more powerful models of thinking and innovation and the more recent developments of software for the brain in countries like America and Australia.

These methods are being adopted by both human and artificial intelligences. They have now spread rapidly through the big global corporations like IBM, Apple and GE via their enterprise training departments. These methods have infected the world wide web and in the last few decades have become a permanent part of Western education systems from primary schools to tertiary institutions.

The 100 lessons of English Thinking simply and clearly show and tell Members how to understand these three dominant methods and how to apply them. They also contrast them with the methods of Confucian Thinking so as to make comparisons and to better understand the differences.

2. Virtuosity

Knowledge without skills is pointless when it comes to English Thinking. So, for 16 weeks Members are given daily opportunities through PRR (practise, repetition, rehearsal) over the course of these 100 lessons to transfer these skills into their own personal and daily life.

The unique goal of this program is to ensure that Members become SKILLED in the daily use of English Thinking.