Flynn Effect

Your capacity to learn, unlearn, and relearn faster than the environment changes.

Malcolm Knowles's principles of adult learning: self-direction, experience as resource, readiness, problem-centered orientation, intrinsic motivation.

Amishi Jha's research: attention is a finite, depletable, but trainable cognitive resource — short daily mindfulness measurably improves it.

Approach a situation as if you knew nothing.

Unusual or bizarre material is more memorable than common material.

Hierarchy of cognitive learning: Remember → Understand → Apply → Analyze → Evaluate → Create. Benjamin Bloom, 1956 (revised 2001).

Assuming that if one option is true, another must be false, when both can be true.

Contradictory evidence sometimes deepens the original belief.

Compressing many small patterns into one larger unit your mind treats as a single object.

The threshold at which a system becomes self-sustaining.

The whole has properties that the individual parts do not.

Asking 'why' repeatedly to trace a problem to its root cause.

Tribal identity markers reward in-group loyalty over coalition-building.

Greedy improvement loops climb hills that aren't the highest hill.

Every yes is a no to everything else competing for that hour, dollar, or slot.

High expectations produce higher performance.

A quick fix relieves the symptom but atrophies the system's capacity to address the real cause.

Practicing a way of thinking until it runs without conscious effort.