Nov 07, 2009 09:25
ON DEVELOPING STRATEGIES TO SOLVE PROBLEMS, WANTS, NEEDS.
GRASP
Goal
Resources
Adversity, obstacles
Strategies
Plan A, Plan B, Plan C, Plan D, Plan E....
Understanding:
Study - Science: Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Earth and Space, Mathematics
History
Description - anecdotal
Story Telling and Writing as methods to discover understanding (not just record events or preexisting status)
A voyage of self discovery
Logic, to find patterns, relationships, causes
Maslow's Hierachy; Bloom's Taxonomy; Rumsfeld's Conundrum
MASLOW'S HIERARCHY
Motivations of people to solve needs, wants, problems, from the most basic: food, water, air, sex, to the more complex and esoteric: self actualization. From the basic at the bottom, to the more esoteric at the top:
Self Actualization
Self Esteem
Social Needs
Safety and protection
Physical Needs
food, Air, Water, Shelter, Sex
BLOOM'S TAXONOMY
A way of classifying types of thinking along a spectrum from simpler to more developed; there is discussion that, while there are levels, it may be more complex than a simple hierarchy: a wheel, branches, and feedback:
Synthesis
Evaluation
Analysis
Application
Comprehension
Knowledge
I would add, at the low end:
Awareness
Clueless.
Rumsfeld's Conundrum
Donald Rumsfeld, in discussing the situation in Afghanistan, voiced great truth about Knowledge and understanding:
There are Known Knowns: Things we know we know.
There are Known Unknowns: Things we know we don't know.
There are Unknown Unknowns: Things we don't know we don't know.
I would add,
There are Unknown Knowns: Things we Know, but are actually untrue.
SOLUTION STRATEGIES TO SOLVE PROBLEMS, NEEDS, WANTS.
Personal action, development, invention
Technology
Medicine
News, Publicity
Entertainment, Distraction
Private Property, Real Estate Ownership
Corporate, Private development.
Deals
Contracts
Commerce
Banking
Insurance
Diplomacy
Mob action
Warlords
Gangs
Volunteer Associations, Clubs
Neighborhood Associations
Religious Organizations
Theology
Philosophy
Marriage, Family
NGOs
Communes
Collectives
Violence
Terrorism
War
Government
Police, Fire, Legal, Taxation, CONTROL
Treaties
Constitution, vs. random custom or individual or group control
Chaos, Anarchy
Parliamentary
Monarchy
Aristocracy
Plutocracy
Representative Democracy
Direct Democracy
Fascism
Communism
Socialism