¿Recuerdas que querías ser de niño? Yo siempre quise ser mago. Te imaginas tener poderes? para leer la mente,o mover cosas, tal vez desaparecer a la maestra, hacer que con un tris de los dedos este completo tu trabajo, poder volar para conocer el mundo, o leer los pensamientos de Sandra que tanto me gustaba en 3ro de primaria, y poder saber si le daba un beso o dos me lo correspondia.
Hay quienes querían ser excelentes deportistas, tal vez estar en la selección de futbol, otros querían ser virtuosos musicales, unos más magos, científicos, hombres de negocios, rockstars y no podían faltar los que tienen deseos escondidos de ser Dominatrix o Pimps. Y si les dijiera que en tan solo 10 años lo podrían logar, ¿lo harían?
Al parecer todo lo que se necesitan son 10,000 horas para ser un experto en su ramo. Así que si le dedicarán 3 horas diarias durante 10 años, al final de estos habrían acumulado las 10,000 horas necesarias para ser la crème de la crème. Tan solo 10 años dedicándole unas miserables 3 horas diarias.
La investigación detallada en la vida de la mayoría de los genios, tienen 2 cosas en común: que le han dedicado más de 10,000 horas de su vida a ser los mejores y que han tenido un GOLPE DE SUERTE.
Desde Miguel Angel a quien su papa lo metió a estudiar pintura desde pequeña edad y le pago a maestros para que lo aceptarán en su taller, antes de producir su David cerca de los 30 años, hasa Los Beatles antes de llegar a USA ya había tenido más de 1,200 presentaciones en Europa (una cantidad que la mayoría de los grupos actuales no alcanza en toda su historia). Bill Gates le dedicó varias horas diario a la computadora mucho antes de entrar a la universidad y de fundar Microsoft. Y así sucesivamente con el que sea su genio favorito!
Deportistas, jugadores de ajedrez, cantantes, escritores, capos de la mafia, doctores, abogados, generales, por donde quiera que uno le busque encuentra que antes de que alcanzaran el nivel de maître, todos le habían dedicado al menos 10,000 horas. No hay evidencia en ningún lugar de que se pueda lograr con menos de ese tiempo. Muchas de las historias que escuchamos, como la de Mozart que componía a los 6 años, no tienen la información completa, como el saber que, la primera pieza maestra, la logro hasta los 21 años.
Así que para la mayoría de los que lean esto, están muy a tiempo de empezar a trabajar para lograrlo, dentro de 10 años la mayoría no va a rebasar el 50% de su vida (suponiendo que vivan 80 años), así que les queda tiempo de sobra para gozarlo. Para aquellos de nosotros que llevamos una vida de rockstar, rodeados de sexo, alcohol y drogas, estamos felices como estamos ¡no necesitamos más!
4.07.2009
4.06.2009
Do you know what you´ve done? ...I just shoot John Lennon!
Mark David Chapman replied to the Dakota doorman. But who really killed John Lennon? Mark Chapman, according to the Detective Arthur O´Connor, looked as if he had been programmed, it was no his will to kill him. Lennon’s murder was not the work yet another “lone nut” someone, somehow managed to brain washed Chapman to do the murder for him.
We must bring order to chaos, that´s the rule by which our brains abide. If something seems to be out of place, we must make sense of it. It doesn’t seem logical that Chapman wanted to kill Lennon, not even for the fame, since he refused to talk to the press. There seems to be so many things out of place that the only “logical” explanation that is SIMPLE enough for our brains, it´s that someone else wanted to kill Lennon and send Chapman to do the job.
It is funny how are brain craves for logical explanations to everything around us, making us wonder why things happen. But in a sense all it wants is a SIMPLE logical explanation, the hard truth about most things it is not simple at all. So it is only when we have some real problem that we dedicate enough time to think about all the possibilities that could arise. Only then we do the hard work no to look for the most simple logical explanation but for the right one.
That brings’ me to mathematics, where you must find the right solution or you’ll fail the test. See in theory we should all love mathematics, I know sounds crazy right? But think about it, we should like math, it makes sense. It follows a series of logical steps that brings us to an irrefutable conclusion. But then again the key word here is SIMPLE! We enjoy simple logic, the easier the better.
Chinese are better at math in general, and one of the probably reasons that has been research lately is their numbers. Their numbers make more sense; they follow a logical way, it´s not like in English that sixteen, seventeen, eighteen more or less follow a patter but not eleven or twelve. Their numbers are shorter to pronounce so it uses less temporal memory, so in a way, it makes math easier for them at the beginning and with a good foundation the next steps are easier.
It s not only that, what makes them better, actually is the hard work they are willing to put it. In average college students dedicate 2 min to a problem before they decide it’s too hard and move on to the next one, while the range was between 30s and 5min. With that little time there is no space for the “aha!” moment, it usually takes about 20 to 30 min of trial and error until we can see it!
It worries me that 47% of men and 62% of women who are asked math questions show symptoms such as tension, nervousness, concern, worry, edginess, impatience, confusion, fear and mental block. If they only knew that a bit more dedication from them now, could go a long way in the future, and that all in all they would be much better if they understood it.
We need to learn, that some things, while not simple they are not beyond our reach. And that with just a little bit of effort we can make the right logical connections in our brain, and enjoy that “aha!” moment for the rest of our life. Whether it’s an explanation to something unconventional, or a math problem, or any other of life challenges that gets thrown at us, we must dedicate the right amount of time to solve it, so that in the future similar challenges become a piece of cake.
We must bring order to chaos, that´s the rule by which our brains abide. If something seems to be out of place, we must make sense of it. It doesn’t seem logical that Chapman wanted to kill Lennon, not even for the fame, since he refused to talk to the press. There seems to be so many things out of place that the only “logical” explanation that is SIMPLE enough for our brains, it´s that someone else wanted to kill Lennon and send Chapman to do the job.
It is funny how are brain craves for logical explanations to everything around us, making us wonder why things happen. But in a sense all it wants is a SIMPLE logical explanation, the hard truth about most things it is not simple at all. So it is only when we have some real problem that we dedicate enough time to think about all the possibilities that could arise. Only then we do the hard work no to look for the most simple logical explanation but for the right one.
That brings’ me to mathematics, where you must find the right solution or you’ll fail the test. See in theory we should all love mathematics, I know sounds crazy right? But think about it, we should like math, it makes sense. It follows a series of logical steps that brings us to an irrefutable conclusion. But then again the key word here is SIMPLE! We enjoy simple logic, the easier the better.
Chinese are better at math in general, and one of the probably reasons that has been research lately is their numbers. Their numbers make more sense; they follow a logical way, it´s not like in English that sixteen, seventeen, eighteen more or less follow a patter but not eleven or twelve. Their numbers are shorter to pronounce so it uses less temporal memory, so in a way, it makes math easier for them at the beginning and with a good foundation the next steps are easier.
It s not only that, what makes them better, actually is the hard work they are willing to put it. In average college students dedicate 2 min to a problem before they decide it’s too hard and move on to the next one, while the range was between 30s and 5min. With that little time there is no space for the “aha!” moment, it usually takes about 20 to 30 min of trial and error until we can see it!
It worries me that 47% of men and 62% of women who are asked math questions show symptoms such as tension, nervousness, concern, worry, edginess, impatience, confusion, fear and mental block. If they only knew that a bit more dedication from them now, could go a long way in the future, and that all in all they would be much better if they understood it.
We need to learn, that some things, while not simple they are not beyond our reach. And that with just a little bit of effort we can make the right logical connections in our brain, and enjoy that “aha!” moment for the rest of our life. Whether it’s an explanation to something unconventional, or a math problem, or any other of life challenges that gets thrown at us, we must dedicate the right amount of time to solve it, so that in the future similar challenges become a piece of cake.
3.11.2007
Howard Gardner & the 5 most wanted
Howard Gardner keep hitting us with his theories about the mind. In his latest book Five Minds for the Future, he talks about how society in the future will need:
I personally think hes getting close to the real deal, so to speak. While his Multiple Intelligence theory has had a lot of success, it is not a rule of nature to be good at one intelligence and dumb at the others. This new approach in which intelligences can be recombined, seems to go more with what the school system has been trying to achieve, which is a well rounded person who can master more than one subject but no necessary all of them.
Those who have shined have not been masters at one of the multiple intelligences that Gardner proposed but more like 3 or 4 of them. Nonetheless educators have been focusing too much on the idea of helping students that have one of the 7 intelligences as opposed to help them develop the other intelligences.
For example a math teacher will incorporate in his class visual representation or analogies of the problem so that those with Spatial Intelligence will understand the subject, he will also try to get some physical evidence of the problem so that the Bodily-Kinesthetic students get some hand-ons experience, and also give a mathematical proof of the problem for those with a Logical-Mathematical Intelligence but will do nothing to help them develop the other. While some educators presume that by simply attacking the problems for all angles the students will develop other intelligences besides his string one, this has yet to show up in real life.
So following blindly his idea of multiple intelligences can hurt creativity and leave the work short of geniuses. It sometimes feel like "damn if you do, damn if you don't" but no need to despair, we are making progress. Howard himself has noted that his theory is not the final answer:
"As one who has thought intensively about multiple intelligences, I am more aware than most of the deficiencies in that theory; yet, I am far from declaring that my own theory has been refuted or that I have adopted a new holistic, unitary, or genetically determined view of the human intellect."
- masters of of major schools of thought
- people who are able to integrate ideas from different disciplines
- those with a knack to uncover and understand new problems and phenomena
- some that are able to appreciate differences among societies and humans
- and the highly ethical ones
I personally think hes getting close to the real deal, so to speak. While his Multiple Intelligence theory has had a lot of success, it is not a rule of nature to be good at one intelligence and dumb at the others. This new approach in which intelligences can be recombined, seems to go more with what the school system has been trying to achieve, which is a well rounded person who can master more than one subject but no necessary all of them.
Those who have shined have not been masters at one of the multiple intelligences that Gardner proposed but more like 3 or 4 of them. Nonetheless educators have been focusing too much on the idea of helping students that have one of the 7 intelligences as opposed to help them develop the other intelligences.
For example a math teacher will incorporate in his class visual representation or analogies of the problem so that those with Spatial Intelligence will understand the subject, he will also try to get some physical evidence of the problem so that the Bodily-Kinesthetic students get some hand-ons experience, and also give a mathematical proof of the problem for those with a Logical-Mathematical Intelligence but will do nothing to help them develop the other. While some educators presume that by simply attacking the problems for all angles the students will develop other intelligences besides his string one, this has yet to show up in real life.
So following blindly his idea of multiple intelligences can hurt creativity and leave the work short of geniuses. It sometimes feel like "damn if you do, damn if you don't" but no need to despair, we are making progress. Howard himself has noted that his theory is not the final answer:
"As one who has thought intensively about multiple intelligences, I am more aware than most of the deficiencies in that theory; yet, I am far from declaring that my own theory has been refuted or that I have adopted a new holistic, unitary, or genetically determined view of the human intellect."
Gardner, H. (2004) Changing minds: The art and science of changing our own and other people's minds. Boston: Harvard Business School Press. p. 196.
This new book should help educator focus on developing broader minds and if not at least broad a little bit theirs. A recommended reading for those interested in education.
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