Cracking paradigms

There can be no end to filling attention with the theories of others. If omniscience (all knowing) was ever an option it is no longer so.

We can imagine a pragmatic minimum of theory. It is based on the knowledge, skills and attitudes (KSA) that an individual needs to ensure the survival of their self and of their various social groups.

Our ancestors got bye in a simple way as foragers. But with the advent of settled agriculture and then city states etc, division of labour flourished along with associated modules of KSA.

At the bottom of this article I have listed the top level topics which I used in my long and varied professional life as an educator bent on changing minds. Towards the end of my working days I served as a facilitator of lifelong learning rather than as a chalk and talk teacher. The task was to gather, summarise and distribute the KSA in one place to another with a view to informing ongoing discussion and debate so as to crack norms and shift paradigms.

I am now retired and no longer paid to promote the KSA for third party agendas. But old habits hang around. I spend most of my time absorbing the KSA associated with evolutionary psychology, neuroscience and mindfulness. I churn out wee stories about every three days and publish them to this blog which, presently, has 28,182 page views and visitors from all parts of the planet.

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