Art of Inference

An interactive workshop designed to teach the practical skills of inferential scanning, synthesis and reporting.

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...very good, stimulating, eclectic...
We look forward to attending the next one.
Thinking about Thinking
Food for thought.
 

 

New Look at the Subconscious (01 March 2008)

Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung showed humanity the subconscious, basically through dreams. Since then, the subconscious has gained importance.

Today, ...read more
  

Fewer Answers / More Questions (01 December 2007)

Theodore Baird was the architect of a famous English course taught at Amherst College.

During his life he even changed the college teaching philosop...read more
  

Metaphor: The key to thinking (01 September 2007)

"Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another," said Robert Frost.

That thought can be expanded t...read more
  

Experience of Leaders (01 June 2007)

Human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. In his book, True North, author Bill George states, "In larg...read more
  

Messy desk and Messy mind (01 March 2007)

A Perfect Mess, a book by Eric Abrahamson and David H. Freedman, describes how untidiness is not bad. The authors investigate psychology, man...read more
  

Tribalism (01 December 2006)

Marshall McLuhan believed technology often had a profound social impact. He saw the stirrup leading to knighthood and the Gutenberg press leading...read more
  

Jung and chemistry (01 September 2006)

The popular Myers-Briggs test is based on psychiatrist C. G. Jung's ...read more
  

Now and How (01 June 2006)

Frederick S. (Fritz) Perls (1893 -1970) was a noted German-born psychiatrist and  ...read more
  

Outside-in thinking (01 March 2006)

Physicians, unfortunately, do not use much outside-in thinking. ...read more
  

Information Overload (01 December 2005)

Too much information can be counterproductive. This is shown in  ...read more
  

Decisions and Ignorace (01 September 2005)

Change forces money managers and businessmen to make decisions. ...read more
  

The High Cost of Talent (01 June 2005)

The National Hockey League shut its doors for good reason. ...read more
  

Overloaded circuits (01 March 2005)

Shopping, choosing a stock and managing a business all  ...read more
  

Rational thought failure (01 December 2004)

It seems odd to compare early Neanderthal minds with the Nobel Prize  ...read more
  

Too many variables (01 September 2004)

In 1979, Richards J. Heuer, Jr., wrote a report for the CIA entitled, ...read more
  

Emotion and Decisions (01 June 2004)

Often people are told to get emotions out of their decision making. 
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The Art of noticing (01 March 2004)

Professor John Stilgoe of Harvard shows his students  ...read more
  

Believing is seeing* (01 December 2003)

Common knowledge is that seeing is believing, but perhaps it is the other way around. ...read more
  

Genius (01 September 2003)

Professor Allan Snyder, from the University of Sydney in Australia, 
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Fooled by Ignored Anomalies (01 June 2003)

In perception, the subconscious brain is constantly compromising as it pieces together information. ...read more
  

Intuition (01 March 2003)

In a fluid environment, the best decisions come from intuition. 
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Insist on Realism (01 December 2002)

In the book, Execution, The Discipline of Getting Things Done, Larry Bossidy and 
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Think Like Tiger (01 September 2002)

Renowned golf writer John Andrisani wrote an analysis of Tiger Wood's mental game in a book titled, Think Like Tiger. 
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The Economics of Patience (01 May 2002)

An excellent test for future success in life is the candy trial. ...read more
  

Symbols (01 February 2002)

Early indicators of change often come in the form of symbols found in dreams and myths. 
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More Intelligence (01 November 2001)

Congress has approved a significant infusion of new spending for the nation's intelligence agencies. ...read more
  

Tracking Skills (01 August 2001)

It's about time. Three decades ago Marshall McLuhan said that the information age would require the skills of a hunter. ...read more
  

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