Comments on: Teaching the unteachable skills

By: Teaching Unteachable Skills

Teaching Unteachable Skills — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:19:58 +0000

[...] way.I really like Richard Miller’s thoughts on his blog which can be found in “TEACHING THE UNTEACHABLE SKILLS.” I’m so thankful for Joseph Smith, Jr., who, in the early and mid 1800’s asked [...]

By: paul

paul — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 20:30:22 +0000

i was just cruising around the internet on a snowy day and found this post. what a great post! now i’m gonna have to go back and read more of your stuff. i totally agree – the rules have completely changed. information is ubiquitous. and we’re still training folks for the assembly line. i think the future value will be found in pattern recognition and trend analysis. also, multi-disciplinarian learners will make massive breakthroughs. nice post.

By: Richard K Miller

Richard K Miller — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 05:54:17 +0000

David, good quotes. Thanks for pointing those out.

By: david jarvi

david jarvi — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:23:13 +0000

I really like this topic as the foundation for interview questions or even a phase in the interview process. Consulting firms, it seems, have mastered testing how you think during the interview process. (via the case method)… but it would cool to see a company hire people based on their ‘intellectual self sufficiency’ capability.

Peter Drucker said, “In book subjects a student can only do a student’s work. All that can be measured is how well he learns, rather than how well he performs. All he can show is promise. — Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New ‘Post-Modern’ World (1959)

and

I think the growth industry of the future in this country and the world will soon be the continuing education of adults. …I think the educated person of the future is somebody who realizes the need to continue to learn. That is the new definition and it is going to change the world we live in and work in. — Managing in a Time of Great Change (1995)

thanks to wikiquote.org

By: Tristan Rhodes

Tristan Rhodes — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:31:40 +0000

I was just thinking about how the internet makes us smarter. For instance, when Google was unreachable for about 12 minutes today, I almost started to panic when I realized that I could not access the wealth of information that I was used to. I told my co-workers that my IQ dropped by 99% while Google was down!

It would be interesting to see how people would do on IQ tests if they had internet access. Say your normal IQ = 100, what would your GEIQ? (Google-enhanced-IQ) Perhaps near 400?

Tristan