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Check your behind
Primarily, I am interested in marketing, entrepreneurship, and business. On an A3 sheet of paper, Blu-Tacked to my wall, I wrote about a year ago:
Positive Transfer Effect The useful effects of past experience are technically known as Positive Transfer Effect. However, people often possess relevant knowledge, but fail to apply it to a current problem. - Michael Eysenck (1996) Simply Psychology, Ch 22, Problem Solving, p398.
All well and good if we possess relevant knowledge and do apply it to a current problem, isn't it? We should be able to come out smiling. Yet, Mark Twain said, 'It ain't what you know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.'
I find that tortuous; you know, bendy, twisting? What he is leaning into is the idea that if we know that something is wrong and act as though that thing is right, then we will get into trouble.
Josh Kaufman, in 'The Personal MBA' wrote,'Paradoxically, one of the best ways to figure out whether or not you're right is to actively look for information that proves you wrong.' (something that I try to remind myself of whenever I am awake). In truth, I have an A4 piece of paper stuck to my wall with writing that says, 'In social science, hypotheses are tested in their negative form. This form of hypothesis is called the null hypothesis. The intent is to prove the positive hypothesis'.
'The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results' I cannot say that Albert Einstein did or didn't say this because the internet tells fibs, in that someone says he didn't say it and then everyone else does, and then by sheer weight of numbers a 'truth' arises.
Obliquely, I am talking about Confirmation Bias, which is the tendency to pay attention to information that supports our own conclusions and ignore all other contrary information. But this is a case of, 'It worked yesterday, so it will work tomorrow.'
Check your behind
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or search for 'martin cadwell -caldwell' Take note of the position of the minus sign to eliminate caldwell returns or search for 'martin cadwell blog' in your browser.
I am not on YouTube or social media
[ 2 minute read ]
Check your behind
Primarily, I am interested in marketing, entrepreneurship, and business. On an A3 sheet of paper, Blu-Tacked to my wall, I wrote about a year ago:
Positive Transfer Effect The useful effects of past experience are technically known as Positive Transfer Effect. However, people often possess relevant knowledge, but fail to apply it to a current problem. - Michael Eysenck (1996) Simply Psychology, Ch 22, Problem Solving, p398.
All well and good if we possess relevant knowledge and do apply it to a current problem, isn't it? We should be able to come out smiling. Yet, Mark Twain said, 'It ain't what you know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.'
I find that tortuous; you know, bendy, twisting? What he is leaning into is the idea that if we know that something is wrong and act as though that thing is right, then we will get into trouble.
Josh Kaufman, in 'The Personal MBA' wrote,'Paradoxically, one of the best ways to figure out whether or not you're right is to actively look for information that proves you wrong.' (something that I try to remind myself of whenever I am awake). In truth, I have an A4 piece of paper stuck to my wall with writing that says, 'In social science, hypotheses are tested in their negative form. This form of hypothesis is called the null hypothesis. The intent is to prove the positive hypothesis'.
'The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results' I cannot say that Albert Einstein did or didn't say this because the internet tells fibs, in that someone says he didn't say it and then everyone else does, and then by sheer weight of numbers a 'truth' arises.
Obliquely, I am talking about Confirmation Bias, which is the tendency to pay attention to information that supports our own conclusions and ignore all other contrary information. But this is a case of, 'It worked yesterday, so it will work tomorrow.'
Check your behind. Why did it work?