Myelination

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).

Deriving general rules from specific examples; the leap from instance to concept.

Assuming qualities of one thing transfer to another because they are associated.

Pay tied to stock price encourages short-term price management.

Value is judged against whatever sits next to it.

Two ways of thinking, both real, both useful, often mis-deployed.

A strategy to influence behavior by amplifying fear and uncertainty.

Decision time grows with the number of choices.

How richly interconnected your mental models are across disciplines — higher density means more cross-pollination per new fact.

Mental rehearsal pattern: see yourself doing the new behavior, refine, step in, run it kinesthetically until it's natural.

Per-inmate funding makes incarceration a budgetary asset for jurisdictions and contractors.

Yellow and Turquoise vMemes — first systems that recognize the legitimacy of all earlier value systems.

Fast intuitive vs. slow deliberative thinking.