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Will You Add? - Influencing the Mind: Learning as It Relates to the Self
I don't usually eat dairy and rarely have it at home. I really enjoy ice cream, however, and occasionally will go to a good ice cream store for their high quality treats. In the western suburbs of Chicago there is a dairy run by a family that has several stores, and more recently they've expanded into other suburbs and into Chicago. When I stopped at one of their stores recently, I asked for a sundae with a little chocolate sauce, a little caramel sauce, and a little marshmallow topping.The girl behind the counter looked at the cash register/computer with a furrowed brow as she tried to figure out how to take my order. Next, she conferred with two other teenage employees who were behind her making sundaes and other ice cream concoctions. There was much whispering. After about 30 seconds she returned to the counter and said to me, "We can't do that. Our computer won't let us."Your computer won't let you?"Yeah," she replied. "We can make a chocolate sundae or a caramel sundae or a marshmallow sundae. But not a mixture. The computer doesn't know how to do that. Unless you want to be charged for extra topping."I don't want extra. I just want a little of each; say, 1/3 of a serving of each.(By now I realized they needed a little help solving their customer service problem, and
Comprehension of learning environment, growth and change that occurred
A learner needs to understand that a true learner should never accept a conformist learning environment. For a learner can only really concentrated on what one likes and what one is best at.
Further, learning should also been an approach by which an individual understands why he or she changes their lives and how to transform it in a rational manner. In order to achieve that in the fullest sense, the learner must be free, socially, intellectually and spiritually. A valuable instrument that could bring perspective according to Thamm (2005) is to communicate about it as often as possible and feasible as communication fosters sense-making.
Practice
Of equal important is that practice should occur at some time in the life span of an individual. Dreams and aspirations should be translated into action within an intended time span. What one has learned needs to be practiced and internalized allowing each individual to live according to a
Today’s competitive marketplace for consulting services is no longer responsive to the marketing strategies that worked in the past. The services you provide should speak volumes about your consulting business. Think about what happens when you hear phrases such as “the ultimate driving machine,” “don’t leave home without it,” and “just do it.” Chances are good that you can immediately associate them with BMW, American Express, and Nike. These companies have mastered “brand brilliance.” Brand your consulting brilliance because the future of your business depends on it.There’s an old adage, “Perception is reality.” Simply stated, the perception of a brand lies in its ability to influence a client’s behavior. When you have successfully branded your business, in the client’s eye there is no service in the marketplace quite like your service.All consulting businesses should have a distinct, sustainable, and competitive advantage to differentiate their services from the competition. I call this process of identifying your advantage “Brand Your Consulting Brilliance.”Here are six simple steps to brand and differentiate your services in the new economy.1. Think client focus first. The client’s reality: Consulting businesses exist to serve clients. Develop a client visitation calendar and schedule in-person vis
Learning is a development and formative process, evolving and changing over time due to various influencing factors like criticism received, self-analytical processes and other forms of feedback. Eaton (1938), as quoted by Snelbecker (1974) stated that “when a man has learned anything he is, for a time at least, changed in his readiness to deal with this or that in his environment. He has become, with respect to certain things, events, meanings, as the case may be, differently sensitive, differently percipient, differently disposed as to the forms of his responsive behaviour, whether in action, in understanding, or in feeling”. It can occur largely, independent of institutional education, guided primarily by self-directed learning or what McNiff (1993) termed “institution-unbound” learning. In this way learning is related to the self.
Roots of learning
In this section an attempt is made to discuss essentials that form the foundation of learning as it relates to the self.
Learning of the individual starts when his life begins
If this assumption is true, then it follows logically that children needs to be regarded as full members of a community, and they should be treated as if they are a guest in your house. By the latter I mean that if they make a mistake, they will be pardoned as any guest in a house. This will ensure that feelings of guilt and inferiority are not installed in the child. Rather, everything possible should be done to assist the child to dream (it cost nothing) and to become what he or she is able to become. When a child is proposing an idea, it is important to encourage the child to do something about the idea.
In this regard it is important to keep the thinking process going by asking proper questions and probing deeper. Always approach an idea of a child with a focus on: “what is right about the idea”? This will stimulate the child to think and learn in a more effective and efficient manner and will encourage the child always to think in terms of positive outcomes for ideas. To foster learning further, the child should be given ample time to gain sufficient understanding of the idea and enough space to explore the idea according to his or her frame of reference. Parents and significant others, like teachers, should try to understand the general thinking direction of the child and then based upon their knowledge of learning principles ask relevant questions to the child influencing the child to think as concretely as possible about the idea and to gain a broader understanding of the bigger picture that frames the idea. The child should also be encouraged to come up with even more questions relating to his or her own original idea.
Being confronted with problems or opportunities
Learning excels when a person is confronted with a problem or opportunity that he or she needs to challenge in order to solve , eliminate or explore it. Being confronted presents a challenge to the individual that needs to be taken up or it will be lost as a learning opportunity. The person benefiting most, will be the one that devoted his whole life-span generating questions, probing ideas and finding solutions for problems and opportunities.
All of this requires that a person becomes more conscious of the world, what life has to offer and the significance of other people to the individual (Thamm, 2005). The person needs to see a problem or opportunity within a time and space perspective with proper regard for the future generation, the present situation and the history from where he or she comes. Taking time and space into account will ensure that a person remains realistic, foresighted and self-controlled.
Survival is at the root of existence, demanding choices
McNiff (1993) is of the opinion that survival is at the root of existence. At the lowest level survival is driven by necessity and at the highest level the standard of achievement and recognition an individual seeks for him or her self over the entire life-span. How one intends to survive is influenced by the freedom of choice that an individual exerts in terms of his or her valuation of what is worthwile and own willpower and not by institutional expectations. This view is supported by a raped victim, Alison, who after the event discovered that she did not live her life by chance but by choice even in situations where no “map” exists to guide her often having only the milestones already lived to serve as “rock” to based decisions on (Thamm, 2005). Adventurer Heidi Howkins (2001) expressed the choice to seeking adventure and the value attach to it as follows: “We have conquered our basic fears, performed under pressure, embraced life and survival with gusto. We are validating ourselves, measuring ourselves not against a relative scale of skill or merit, but against the absolutes of gravity and our own fragile existence”. Thus, the type of “fuel” that drives survival of the individual is determined by the motivational level of an individual from necessity at the lowest level to achievement and recognition at the highest level.
In the end, the final assessment is how did you live your life as a unique individual with own unique expectations and motivations. Others can only make one to do things, if they are given the power to do so. Following the institutional expectancy option, makes one only a servant of institutional expectations. Learning could be much more. It should become an instrument to free the individual taking him or her to higher levels of creative understandings and achievements.
Integration of the experience into something worthwhile
Each individual has a unique set of responses to and the way in which they internalize an experience. This can be turned into something that adds value or reduce value to the self. In this two factors play a major influencing role namely time and space to collect one’s thoughts, reflect on the experience, find the meaning of the experience, making something more of the experience and to gain perspective (Thamm, 2005).
Comprehension of learning environment, growth and change that occurred
A learner needs to understand that a true learner should never accept a conformist learning environment. For a learner can only really concentrated on what one likes and what one is best at.
Further, learning should also been an approach by which an individual understands why he or she changes their lives and how to transform it in a rational manner. In order to achieve that in the fullest sense, the learner must be free, socially, intellectually and spiritually. A valuable instrument that could bring perspective according to Thamm (2005) is to communicate about it as often as possible and feasible as communication fosters sense-making.
Practice
Of equal important is that practice should occur at some time in the life span of an individual. Dreams and aspirations should be translated into action within an intended time span. What one has learned needs to be practiced and internalized allowing each individual to live according to an
Just to review, in our last article we discussed five things to consider when implementing or upgrading an ERP system.1. Begin with the end in mind. At the end of your project, you own and will live with the system. You need to control the temporary help you bring in to complete this task.2. Don’t hand the keys to the implementation partner and walk away. If you do, you may be surprised when you arrive at a destination very different than what you expected. You are paying for it, not them and you must stay involved every step of the way to ensure that the project stays on track.3. Use a customer solutions oriented provider. In other words, use a provider that will listen to what you want and advise on the pros and cons, but ultimately you are the customer.4. Find a partner that will extend knowledge transfer to key employees throughout the whole project.5. Don’t be afraid to make a change in personnel at anytime during the implementation. Often, companies tolerate an ineffective consultant because they are afraid that making a change will slip the project timeline. Remember, that no one is bigger than the game. Fixing a personnel problem may be that critical step to keeping your project on time.To accomplish this task there are several things to keep in mind.First you need to provi
In this regard it is important to keep the thinking process going by asking proper questions and probing deeper. Always approach an idea of a child with a focus on: “what is right about the idea”? This will stimulate the child to think and learn in a more effective and efficient manner and will encourage the child always to think in terms of positive outcomes for ideas. To foster learning further, the child should be given ample time to gain sufficient understanding of the idea and enough space to explore the idea according to his or her frame of reference. Parents and significant others, like teachers, should try to understand the general thinking direction of the child and then based upon their knowledge of learning principles ask relevant questions to the child influencing the child to think as concretely as possible about the idea and to gain a broader understanding of the bigger picture that frames the idea. The child should also be encouraged to come up with even more questions relating to his or her own original idea.
Being confronted with problems or opportunities
Learning excels when a person is confronted with a problem or opportunity that he or she needs to challenge in order to solve , eliminate or explore it. Being confronted presents a challenge to the individual that needs to be taken up or it will be lost as a learning opportunity. The person benefiting most, will be the one that devoted his whole life-span generating questions, probing ideas and finding solutions for problems and opportunities.
All of this requires that a person becomes more conscious of the world, what life has to offer and the significance of other people to the individual (Thamm, 2005). The person needs to see a problem or opportunity within a time and space perspective with proper regard for the future generation, the present situation and the history from where he or she comes. Taking time and space into account will ensure that a person remains realistic, foresighted and self-controlled.
Survival is at the root of existence, demanding choices
McNiff (1993) is of the opinion that survival is at the root of existence. At the lowest level survival is driven by necessity and at the highest level the standard of achievement and recognition an individual seeks for him or her self over the entire life-span. How one intends to survive is influenced by the freedom of choice that an individual exerts in terms of his or her valuation of what is worthwile and own willpower and not by institutional expectations. This view is supported by a raped victim, Alison, who after the event discovered that she did not live her life by chance but by choice even in situations where no “map” exists to guide her often having only the milestones already lived to serve as “rock” to based decisions on (Thamm, 2005). Adventurer Heidi Howkins (2001) expressed the choice to seeking adventure and the value attach to it as follows: “We have conquered our basic fears, performed under pressure, embraced life and survival with gusto. We are validating ourselves, measuring ourselves not against a relative scale of skill or merit, but against the absolutes of gravity and our own fragile existence”. Thus, the type of “fuel” that drives survival of the individual is determined by the motivational level of an individual from necessity at the lowest level to achievement and recognition at the highest level.
In the end, the final assessment is how did you live your life as a unique individual with own unique expectations and motivations. Others can only make one to do things, if they are given the power to do so. Following the institutional expectancy option, makes one only a servant of institutional expectations. Learning could be much more. It should become an instrument to free the individual taking him or her to higher levels of creative understandings and achievements.
Integration of the experience into something worthwhile
Each individual has a unique set of responses to and the way in which they internalize an experience. This can be turned into something that adds value or reduce value to the self. In this two factors play a major influencing role namely time and space to collect one’s thoughts, reflect on the experience, find the meaning of the experience, making something more of the experience and to gain perspective (Thamm, 2005).
Comprehension of learning environment, growth and change that occurred
A learner needs to understand that a true learner should never accept a conformist learning environment. For a learner can only really concentrated on what one likes and what one is best at.
Further, learning should also been an approach by which an individual understands why he or she changes their lives and how to transform it in a rational manner. In order to achieve that in the fullest sense, the learner must be free, socially, intellectually and spiritually. A valuable instrument that could bring perspective according to Thamm (2005) is to communicate about it as often as possible and feasible as communication fosters sense-making.
Practice
Of equal important is that practice should occur at some time in the life span of an individual. Dreams and aspirations should be translated into action within an intended time span. What one has learned needs to be practiced and internalized allowing each individual to live according to a
Desire is the driving force behind most online business successes. Desire is the key ingredient which drives most online business owners to succeed. Without desire you are doomed to fail. Desire questions how bad you really want something. Desire keeps you working on your online home based business at 4 in the morning. When you want something so badly that you are willing to do anything to get it, you are sure to succeed. Desire will help you overcome the rough times and keep you going when you are about to quit. Once you have a burning desire you are sure to succeed at creating a successful online home based business.Ok, so the question now would be, "how do you get desire?". Desire is not something you can just develop overnight. You must find something in life that drives you to succeed. It could be a significant other, a family member, a child or a material object. You must know what you want in life and why you want it. If you are starting an online home based business without knowing what you want, you are doomed to fail. It is not enough just to say I want to make money. You need to be specific. Without having any goals your online home based business is sure to fail.Once you have decided what it is that drives you to succeed, you have won half the battle. Make sure the person or thing that drives you to succeed is
All of this requires that a person becomes more conscious of the world, what life has to offer and the significance of other people to the individual (Thamm, 2005). The person needs to see a problem or opportunity within a time and space perspective with proper regard for the future generation, the present situation and the history from where he or she comes. Taking time and space into account will ensure that a person remains realistic, foresighted and self-controlled.
Survival is at the root of existence, demanding choices
McNiff (1993) is of the opinion that survival is at the root of existence. At the lowest level survival is driven by necessity and at the highest level the standard of achievement and recognition an individual seeks for him or her self over the entire life-span. How one intends to survive is influenced by the freedom of choice that an individual exerts in terms of his or her valuation of what is worthwile and own willpower and not by institutional expectations. This view is supported by a raped victim, Alison, who after the event discovered that she did not live her life by chance but by choice even in situations where no “map” exists to guide her often having only the milestones already lived to serve as “rock” to based decisions on (Thamm, 2005). Adventurer Heidi Howkins (2001) expressed the choice to seeking adventure and the value attach to it as follows: “We have conquered our basic fears, performed under pressure, embraced life and survival with gusto. We are validating ourselves, measuring ourselves not against a relative scale of skill or merit, but against the absolutes of gravity and our own fragile existence”. Thus, the type of “fuel” that drives survival of the individual is determined by the motivational level of an individual from necessity at the lowest level to achievement and recognition at the highest level.
In the end, the final assessment is how did you live your life as a unique individual with own unique expectations and motivations. Others can only make one to do things, if they are given the power to do so. Following the institutional expectancy option, makes one only a servant of institutional expectations. Learning could be much more. It should become an instrument to free the individual taking him or her to higher levels of creative understandings and achievements.
Integration of the experience into something worthwhile
Each individual has a unique set of responses to and the way in which they internalize an experience. This can be turned into something that adds value or reduce value to the self. In this two factors play a major influencing role namely time and space to collect one’s thoughts, reflect on the experience, find the meaning of the experience, making something more of the experience and to gain perspective (Thamm, 2005).
Comprehension of learning environment, growth and change that occurred
A learner needs to understand that a true learner should never accept a conformist learning environment. For a learner can only really concentrated on what one likes and what one is best at.
Further, learning should also been an approach by which an individual understands why he or she changes their lives and how to transform it in a rational manner. In order to achieve that in the fullest sense, the learner must be free, socially, intellectually and spiritually. A valuable instrument that could bring perspective according to Thamm (2005) is to communicate about it as often as possible and feasible as communication fosters sense-making.
Practice
Of equal important is that practice should occur at some time in the life span of an individual. Dreams and aspirations should be translated into action within an intended time span. What one has learned needs to be practiced and internalized allowing each individual to live according to a
There are things that needed a good deal of attention on intricate details, postcard designs are also one of the forms of attention-grabbing material that needs good planning. There is a limitation on postcards; mainly its size. The use of correct content and illustration must be maximized due to the small space available. The layout must be filled up with proper information; this must be suited to your client.A design principle usually has many intricate aspects that you need to focus on. From the content to the illustrations, they must be suited to the theme and to its purpose. You can either design them yourself with the aid of research and other softwares to make a good themed-postcard or consulting a professional designer to do the job for you. But the real goal is to attract more attention whilst having to portray still a quality postcard. A fatal mistake on advertising can be made by simply bloating the postcard with advertisements that simply overwhelms the overall design; the best way is to balance content from its size.It can come with different content. Most postcards are being used for greetings; this allows you to create the right theme for the occasion. don't put much effort on bending the theme as this can lead to getting the wrong feedback, focus on the theme and make other additional contents with it.
In the end, the final assessment is how did you live your life as a unique individual with own unique expectations and motivations. Others can only make one to do things, if they are given the power to do so. Following the institutional expectancy option, makes one only a servant of institutional expectations. Learning could be much more. It should become an instrument to free the individual taking him or her to higher levels of creative understandings and achievements.
Integration of the experience into something worthwhile
Each individual has a unique set of responses to and the way in which they internalize an experience. This can be turned into something that adds value or reduce value to the self. In this two factors play a major influencing role namely time and space to collect one’s thoughts, reflect on the experience, find the meaning of the experience, making something more of the experience and to gain perspective (Thamm, 2005).
Comprehension of learning environment, growth and change that occurred
A learner needs to understand that a true learner should never accept a conformist learning environment. For a learner can only really concentrated on what one likes and what one is best at.
Further, learning should also been an approach by which an individual understands why he or she changes their lives and how to transform it in a rational manner. In order to achieve that in the fullest sense, the learner must be free, socially, intellectually and spiritually. A valuable instrument that could bring perspective according to Thamm (2005) is to communicate about it as often as possible and feasible as communication fosters sense-making.
Practice
Of equal important is that practice should occur at some time in the life span of an individual. Dreams and aspirations should be translated into action within an intended time span. What one has learned needs to be practiced and internalized allowing each individual to live according to a
Employment Services rank among the industries as projected to grow the fastest and to provide the most new jobs. Though many people closely relate the employment services industry with temporary employment opportunities for clerical workers but the industry is different in matching millions of people with jobs, providing both temporary and permanent employment to individuals with a wide variety of education, managerial and professional work experience. The various jobs in the industry range from secretary to computer systems analyst, and from general laborer to nurse. In addition to temporary jobs in these sectors, permanent positions in the industry include workers such as employment interviewers and marketing representatives who help assign and place workers in jobs.The Employment Services in Anchorage has various segments. The staffing agencies list employment vacancies and place permanent employees. The city of Anchorage also hosts temporary help services, also referred to as temporary staffing agencies that provide employees to other organizations, on a contract basis and for a limited period, to aid in the workforce of the client. There are certain Professional employer organizations which are engaged in providing human resources and human resources management services to staff client businesses. They also assign workers to
Comprehension of learning environment, growth and change that occurred
A learner needs to understand that a true learner should never accept a conformist learning environment. For a learner can only really concentrated on what one likes and what one is best at.
Further, learning should also been an approach by which an individual understands why he or she changes their lives and how to transform it in a rational manner. In order to achieve that in the fullest sense, the learner must be free, socially, intellectually and spiritually. A valuable instrument that could bring perspective according to Thamm (2005) is to communicate about it as often as possible and feasible as communication fosters sense-making.
Practice
Of equal important is that practice should occur at some time in the life span of an individual. Dreams and aspirations should be translated into action within an intended time span. What one has learned needs to be practiced and internalized allowing each individual to live according to an own life code, wishes, hopes and dreams. Through practicing, the individual will learn to discover basic underlying principles that will enable one when confronting with complex problems, to go back to basic learning principles aiding one to come up with something positive and valuable even if the individual is not able to solve the problem directly. Practicing does not imply that the individual will become the best in everything or in something particular; rather it implies that the individual will do his or her outmost to become the best he or she can be. In the words of Thamm (2005): “The woods would be silent if the only birds that sang there were the ones who sang best”.
Unlearn outdated habits and behaviour
Some learning experiences and the value it have may become redundant or irrelevant over time and may even hold an individual back. The cause thereof is sometimes not known. What is known is that an individual is often confronted by situations where what one believed becomes irrelevant, one feels an inability to choose and life in general seems irrelevant. In such cases a process of unlearning, to get rid of irrelevancies, need to occur. From this, according to Howkins (2001) a new kind of awareness, new passions and new ways of knowing may emerge.
Individual learning culminates into aggregated community knowledge
In order to culminate knowledge that will form the basis of knowledge for future generations, it is important that individuals, as trustees of ideas, communicate their ideas to others so that the idea will become part of common discussion and consciousness. This is a primary responsibility of an individual with regards to knowledge creation – to convey information and ideas. It is something that an individual ought to do. In this regard Freud is of the opinion that the discovery of new knowledge is the greatest adventure of mankind. Freud expressed it as follows: “This is the greatest adventure of mankind: to find something that was never known before, or understood. Each new piece of knowledge does not need to have a specific or functional use, at least not at the moment. It is a sufficient triumph that we have learnt something and proved it by documentation that had formerly been part of the darkness” (Stone, 1971). Adding knowledge is the noblest gift an individual can gift to society as all bits of knowledge piled to bits of knowledge allowing the ultimate discoverer to invent.
Conclusion
The purpose of this article was to concisely describe aspects to consider in influencing the mind as it relates to the self. Eight determinants were discussed namely, the beginning of the learning process, being confronted with problems, survival, integration of experiences, comprehension, practicing, unlearning and learning culmination..
Bibliography
Caswell,C. and Lamon, M. 1999. Development of Scientific Literacy: The evolution of Ideas in a Knowledge-building Classroom. In: Leach, J. and Moon, B. (Eds). 1999. Learners and Pedagogy. Paul Chapman Publishing Ltd.:London.
Howkins, H. 2001. K2: One womens quest for the summit. Adventure Press: Washington.
Stone, I. 1971. The passions of the mind: A novel of the life and work of Sigmeund Freud. Cassel: London.
McNiff, J. 1993. Teaching as learning: An action research approach. Routledge: London.
Snelbecker, G.E. 1974. Learning theory, instructional theory and Psychoeducational design. McGraw-Hill: New York.
Thamm, M. 2005. I have life. Penguin Books:Johannesburg.
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