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And, become “Indispensable”
to someone else + to America’s promise (as written in the U.S. Constitution) + to an Institution + to an Employer by becoming a Companion + a Collaborator + a Cohort who can D+D => 4A to 4C (Define + Delineate => Anticipate + Adjust + Adapt + Adopt to Corroborate + Collaborate + Coalesce + Conjoin).
20th Century SOP is DOA in the 21st Century Age of Automation Top-Tier Workforce. A.I.+++ DIY is a-OK.


By learning How-to and Can-do at Retrac.com, you will begin to display the Right Stuff  that can make you —  
    
 i – CC&C => AI.+++
i - Consciously Consequential & Collaborative
via Artificial Intelligence’s expanding Capabilities
and Competencies.


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The 21st Century is all about preparing to meet the challenges of the A.I.+++-driven World-wide Age of Automation and Beyond (an Industrial Evolution on steroids). A USA that needs to focus on building more “U.S. Trade Space” in the “Global Economic Space” — by learning How-to and Can-do while displaying the Right Stuff!
   
Cognitive Intelligence
(Binary) has shown it can’t compete in an Ambient Intelligence (Analog) driven industrial / Commercial / Service-driven World of Competing Cultures. (As the U.S. escalating National Debt + Trade Deficits + Inflation + War + Rancor in U.S. Communities so testify).
   
U.S. Education/Schooling’s Cognitive Intelligence-driven World of Children has shown it can't Prep Americans to compete in a World of Adults.

      

Prepping Americans to successfully compete in the Global Economy is a DIY, On-the-Fly >
Ys-ly challenge using A.I.+++ = “Artificial Intelligence” (Analog) NOT computer-based “Automated Intelligence” (Binary).
   
Cognitive Intelligence and its Lineal Thinking focus on: What was; Repetition; Uniformity; Preservation. Cognitive Intelligence and “Subscription” dominate USA Cultures today. Which is why we are losing — Economically, Politically and Morally.
   
Ambient Intelligence and its Contextual Thinking focus on What is-actually; What can-be; What should-be => Adaptation. Unfortunately, in American Schooling, People who don’t display Cognitive Intelligence and practice Subscription are considered to be Autistic.

CAVEAT: Retrac.com is specifically designed for the identifiable18% of American post-Puberty Adults whose right side of their Cerebral Cortex has fully come on-line so they are now Physically + Physiologically + Intellectually equipped to engage in abstract thinking that facilitates the development of their abilities to Constructively Collaborate + Imagine in Context + focus Intuition + aptly-Adapt-to a given Situation/Circumstance, appropriately, and become Consciously Consequential in the 21st Century’s A.I.- Accelerating Industrial + Commercial + Agricultural Evolution =>The Age of Automation (aka: Contenders for Top-Tier employment during the Age of Automation) — making it the first schooling in America that is "of the people, by the people, for the Students”.
   
As such, it is organized Syntopically, not Sequentially + Progress and Proficiency are ungraded to accommodate the unique Ambitions + Perspectives + Interests + Values + Abilities + Aspirations + Attitudes + Expectations of individual Visitors, Readers and DIY Participants => Contenders.


Prepping-to-Face the 21st Century’s Real-World A.I.-driven Age of Automation opens in Print: The Art of Being Smarter Workbooks and Prepping for 21st Century Employment Playbooks -- Published-by ex-residents of Silicon Valley, CA (Retrac.com).
   
Retrac.com Participants are Contenders because they are DIY Prepping for Top-Tier Employment in the World of adult-Adults — where Obvious Competency + Collaboration + productive- Application indicates => Ambient Intelligence in a World currently driven by Cognitive Intelligence and AI (Automated Intelligence).
   
Retrac.com provides DIY Prepping Services with Optional Support to build Autonomous Individuals.
(aka: Contenders) — Who can-become Members of a local AaA Club = Adaptive adult Adults => “In the Pursuit of Happiness”, while attaining a favorable View-of-Self by putting tomorrow ahead of yesterday.
   
It is not how much we know that testifies to our Intelligence. It is what we can-do with what we know that reveals our Intelligence, and whether-or-not we have the "Right Stuff".


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A Truth and its Consequences
for those who have the "Right Stuff"

Retrac.com offers Four Honorariums to DIY qualifying Student Contenders. "Honorariums" are Passports to Top-Tier Employment during the U.S. A.I.+++ driven Age of Automation, and Beyond.
   
No Grades! Contenders simply demonstrate that they have the ability to Comprehend / Build a Concept-in-Context + Collaborate + reach a Consensus.
   
1) A Degree of Being Smarter = Can Plan
    and Prepare before Doing
2) Degrees of Strategic Adaptability
     = Can Plan > Real World > Real Time > Actually
3) Certificates of Authentic Capabilities
     = Knows How-to make Connections.
4) Certificates of Authoritarian Competencies
    = Can Do! Strategic Adaptability.

Retrac.com can provide a Portal to Tomorrow's World. U.S. Universities that want to upgrade their 20th Century Curriculum can include A.I.+++ Prepping of its students for the 21st Century A.I.+++-driven Age of Automation Workforce during the 4th Industrial Evolution and the 6th Intellectual Reformation (by expanded their frame-of-reference + Retrac.com).

Retrac.com presents the Processes and Procedures for converting Artificial Intelligence into Ambient Intelligence + Intellectual Acuity and acquiring the appropriate Tools + Skill Sets + Competencies To-be Smarter, while Balancing their lives to successfully compete in the Global Economy during the USA’s A.I.+++-driven Age of Automation, and Ys-ly become Consciously Consequential using A.I.+++ with the "Right Stuff"..

   


Prepping for 21st Century Employment
— A.I. and Beyond —
requires a new kind of Prepping — DIY>Ys-ly
with the
"Right Stuff"
(so says Seer John)

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Retrac.com's"The Art of Being Smarter" DIY Workbooks (optional) 
 can help ignite your Learning Tools + Capabilities + Competencies so you can manaage

an evolving / changing / shifting adult World and its Options and Opportunities.


Workbook #1: Building
   
“Verbal Communication Skills with Pantomime Punctuation”
   
We live in culture-based communities, so first and foremost we need recognizable Personal Verbal Communication Skills => Speech + Pantomime Punctuation that can only be assimilated Post-Puberty.
   
Post-Puberty the full right-side of our Cerebral Cortex comes on-line and we Humans can intellectually begin to handle impersonal relationships + mental gymnastics + a range of Considerations, Perspectives and Behaviors. Personal Communication is the most important.

The 21st Century’s Portal-to Survival of the Fittest — Intellectually — during the A.I.-driven Age of Automation starts with Strategic Planning and a Plan.
   
Included in Workbook #1 is a How-to achieve a tangible, predictable Future by following a 12-Step Strategic Critical Path of your own invention, as an individual or member of a Group (via Collaboration).
   
The Human Species is designed to Collaborate (XX+XY Chromosome-Built DNA) and to Cooperate in order to Survive and Thrive in a Competitive World. The success of a collaboration is dependent on the quality of the Collaborators.
   
Workbook #1: Overview

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Workbook #2: Developing
   
“Physique and Physiology being comparatively Better
— Actually”.
   
Our Physique is unique. This Workbook outlines our 24 Human Physique and Physiology Components as they-can Influence our Intellectual Capabilities + Competencies + Contextual Intuition + Strategic Adaptability while affecting our ability to-be Smarter.
   
Workbook #2: Overview

The efficiency of our Physiology is dependent on proper fueling and efficient distribution + a balanced diet, in moderation + sufficient exercises to keep all of our Physically-oriented Systems churning.
   
Engaging 21st Century’s Smart Physical Movements and enhancing our Health can Tune-up our Physical Capabilities, optimize our Physiological Functions, and free us to accelerate our intellectual development so we can become an Intellectual Autonomous Person.

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Workbook #3: Initiating
   
“Build a Vantage Point and become Indispensable”
   
Learning How-to > Learn How-to — build > then-build > a Knowledgeable Vantage Point that is a place of respect / reverence for the proven Principles, Precepts and Practices that give substance to the World that directly-affects your options and opportunities — is a DIY > Collaborative, Pragmatic, Knowledge-based Activity. Form a Collaboration.

Workbook #3 provides the 12 Plank Topics for building a Deck that provides a Vantage Point.
   
Define/Delineate yourself-to-yourself > provides Perspective > a sense of Place > a basis for developing/tuning-up/optimizing your inherent Capabilities/ Competences and developing a Competitive Advantage.
     
However, keep in Mind, you are a unique individual, so all forms of strategic thinking, planning, initiation that can deliver a sense of success and satisfaction to-you > must start with-you.
   
Workbook #3: Overview

      



The Art of Being Smarter Human Beings
Employment Playbooks 

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Applying “Smarter” to ourselves and our World starts by knowing
where we are and what we have to work with — and how being Smarter
translates into Position and Cash Flow.
(According to Seer John)


   

Retrac.com’s “Mini” of
The Prologue to Degrees of Strategic Adaptability 
can be used as an apparently circumspect “Introduction” to someone you would like to meet or as a recruiting tool for initiating a Collaborative Cluster to discuss with fellow students “Degrees of Strategic Adaptability” – and/or – is a University Degree worth a Student’s time and money in terms of Prepping for the Age of Automation after graduation employment?
   
Meetings can be held at the Career Center / Student Union / Library or local coffee shop => Students Participating / Pesonalizing their Education – and/or – your “Mini” can be clipped to your Query /

Resume mailed-to or left at a Human Resources Department — where you might like to work.
   
A word to the Ys (Wise): Sign your name on the “Mini”you leave behind in-Script and your contact phone number or email address in-Print

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Colorful “Mini” Prologue
for making special contacts
= 6-pages with a Front Cover,
Back Cover, and inside
Centerfold. (Folded: 4-1/2"x6")
4= $36; 8 = $60;
or — Copy on an Office Copier at
85% and fold it yourself for building
personal Collaborative Clusters
or for speculative handouts.
     
How-to Use the “Mini”




Additional Prepping for 21st Century Employment
— A.I. and Beyond — Playbooks  (DIY => Ys-ly)

Can-do Checklist
Define/Delineate your Capabilities/Competencies + Evaluate your Comparative/Competitive
Options and Opportunities

Know Your Rights
Successfully living Life on your own terms, while protecting your Options and Opportunities:
The U.S. Constiution


Strategically Adaptable
Acquiring, Manipulating, Managing > Applicable Knowledge (includes 8 basic types of intentionally acquired Knowledge

5 Waves of Knowledge
The 5 Waves that will affect your employment options and opportunities. Chronicle your progress/achievements


Requisite Capabilities
Become Indispensable:
Requisite Capabilities that count in an A.I.-driven Age of Automation workplace/workspace

Ys Critical Path
Building a Ys Critical Path creates a Future of your choosing. Delineate your Strategy and reach your Target efficiently as possible.





Documenting and Curating your Schooling Experiences
   
Monthly Scratch Pads — of Class Notes + a Datebook (literally and figuratively) are a Tool for Categorizing our Lives into manageable Parts, while recording the Essence of our Education => The Future (aka: Our Preparation for Adult Life), and building a useful, Knowledge-based on-Demand Memory Bank, by re-writing / listing Class Notes as one of the Following:
• Postulates = Pragmatic
   Summaries
• Visceptuals = Concepts-in-
   Context — graphically
• Contributions to their Story
   Boards = Where they want to go.

Now you can have a reference to your entire Secondary and Post-secondary Schooling to match to your Student Debt and decide if you should sue your University, College or local School District for Breach of Contract and Honest Services Fraud under the 7th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
     
Scratch Pad = 6-pages with a Front Cover, Back Cover, and inside Centerfold (calendar). (Folded: 5.5"x8") 
   
One Scratch Padfor each Credit Course/Semester at $24 each or 6 for $72.

Scratch Pad (Cover Page)

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Instructor developed / written Class Syllabuses for Professors / Instructors who are Student-oriented, not Career / Tenure-oriented.
     
Syllabuses are published and sold in the University Book Store to replace today’s out-of-date, too-expensive Textbooks that enshrine the World of Children and their Cognitive Intelligence. Plus, posters from the Syllabuses can dramatically improve learning)

Syllabuses can-be published and sold by the University Bookstore Staff in conjunction with the students / Staffs of the School Newspaper + Art / Design Departments + Marketing / Advertising Departments, etc. = Students Participating in their Education.
     
Syllabus = 6 to 12 pages with a Front Cover, Back Cover, and inside Centerfold. (Folded: 9"x12")

   

      
— Optional Options —
that can help steer you to the cogent questions and answers and
comments — and to our Prepping / Informing / Clarifying Q&A Services


1) Topical Collaborative Clusters provide
     alternative-answers to published-Perspectives
     regarding U.S. Residents’ (Human - Political -
     Economic - Cultural) 
behavior = Topical Concepts-
     in-Context. Potential Topics
     
2) Retrac.com eMail Q&A service:
     • Clarification of Being a Human Being in the
        Age of Automation => to 12-word Question = $12
     • Clarification of a Retrac.com section => to
        24-Words = $24
     • Clarification of an Employment/Workforce issue
        => to 36-Words = $36
   
3) Zoom-in 2-hour Collaborative
    Discussions 
= 5–32 Contenders
    •  Re: Being a Human Being in the Age of
       Automation = $24/Contender
    • Re: a Top-Tier Employment Topic = $36/Contender
    • Re: an Employment/Workforce issue => $48/
      Contender; over 12 Contenders => $36/Contender

For those whose local University do not offer
the “Art of Being Smarter Workbooks"
or Employment Playbooks”
“Prepping for 21st Century Employment,
A.I. and Beyond ”
You can Purchase them here via PayPal

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Plus, fill out our Checklist of Human Capabilities + Competencies +
Intellectual Tools + Intellectual Skill Sets + How-to adapt + adopt + Implement
to evaluate your comparative / competitive Options and Opportunities.
Can you be a Contender?

Cohort Positions Available
     
     
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  — The Time has come —
“Profile the Person 
you would like-to-be”
Then build
a Can-do-YOU!
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An American who
“can defend the USA
from all enemies,
Foreign and Domestic”

by building
“a more perfect Union”
while successfully
competing/managing
 
your Real-world,
Real-time — Actually



  


     — Olde WebSite (circa 2025) —

→ You can Fly My Wing Intellectually
and build Noticeably better Options and Opportunities!



   
Author:
 John M. Comer => SAR; 13th Generation to graduate from a U.S. University
Builder: Jill A. Comer => DAR; Lineage built the Oregon Trail.
   
LinkedIn: John M. Comer  |  Website: Retrac.com (Presented by Scholastic Engineering)
       Email: jcomer@ScholasticEngineering.com
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