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You can become Strategically Adaptable to "Change"
 — on your own-terms (more or less)

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When you know what you need to know + be-able to-do + Can-Do, you can
use A.I. to acquire your own Special Knowledge and catalogue your knowledge
in your Memory Banks so that it is available when you need it — on-Demand.


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How-to apply/practice the Capabilities
and Competences you need to become
Strategically Adaptable

The Primary Tools for Ys-Ways 
  • Collaboration — To Discover how your personal Knowledge and Perspectives fit in the world you live in requires that you share your knowledge and its potential applications with others and they with you. We call this Collaborative Communication.   
  • Ys-Postulates — A method for Prioritizing options and opportunities by answering 5 questions to condense your relevant, useful-Knowledge to facilitate Recall-on-Demand and Connectivity of useful, applicable knowledge. Represents the least you need to know to make a productive / constructive decision or launch a successful course of action. (Creates a Pragmatic Principle) 
  • Visceptuals — Visualization graphic presentations of a “Concept-In-Context" for Ys-Mavericks with Intellectual, Intuitive Skill Sets. Stimulates the development of Pragmatic Principles.

The Primary Tools
A Ys-Maverick's Intellectual Tool Box


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Collaborative Clusters are Verbal and tend-to build Ensembles. Three types:
   
1) Planned and Organized: Like the U.S. Constitutional Convention: The U.S. Constitution and a Strategic Plan, the Bill of Rights. A Meeting to discuss How-to fix the Confederation of Independent States that wasn’t working. Started with building a Story Board and then a Strategic Critical Path.
     
2) Spur-of-the-Moment among participants with related interests in a Common Problem/Goal. (Waigaya)
     
3) Spontaneous: An unexpected Social opportunity to add to your useful-Knowledge base. Social Collaboration Skills can replace the Social-small-talk and the exchange of irrelevant information with subtle-interrogation techniques that no one will consider intrusive.


How-to Collaborate – Socially: You can ask someone what they-think about a popular topic of general interest to you. You then say whether you-agree or you-disagree.

  • If you agree – ask: How they came to their conclusions/perspectives that-may buttress your own position. If you disagree, you can say - you may have missed something and ask - How did they arrive at their position?
  • Asking People for their opinion and respecting-it is very ingratiating and you come across as open-minded, not obdurate. You can go home Smarter and more-Popular than when you arrived.
"Great things in business are never done by one person. They are done by a team of people." (a Collaborative Ensemble) -- Steve Jobs


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Ys-Postulates are Literate Definitions that Prioritize-in-Context for Cataloging in our Memory Banks to facilitate Recall-on-Demand.
 
Ys-Postulates are a method for “Prioritizing” options and opportunities in — Life > Employment > Relationships — by formalizing the least you need to know to make a productive/constructive decision or launch a successful course of action.
   
A Ys-Postulate is a Pragmatic Principle of Adaptability. It's a-single, cohesive statement of 72 words or less that answers 5 questions regarding an-Action, an-Activity, a-Precept, a-Principle, a-Concept in Context: 1) What is it? 2) What does it do? 3) How does it do it? 4) Why should I care? 5) What can I do to cope, adjust, protect my position? Question 4 is the most important. You should not waste your time considering another person’s interests/issues that do not complement/affect your own.

Practice Time: Complete the following sentences as Ys-Postulates (in 72 words or less).
1) Human Speech is___ ___ ___ ___ …
2) Reading is ___ ___ ___ ___ …
3) Writing is ___ ___ ___ ___ …
4) Arithmetic is ___ ___ ___ ___ …
5) The difference between Arithmetic and
    Mathematics is ___ ___ ___ ___ …
6) My being-Smarter can ___ ___ ___ ___ ..

If you would like to participate in a 2-hour Socratic Agora on Ys-Postulates and their role in Contextual Thinking, EmailUs. We will solicit our Contact List and see if we can get enough interest to warrant scheduling a Zoom-in Network of individual participants on their SmartPhones or Laptops or Desktops ($48/participant) or a single, large screen group location ($36/participant)


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Visceptuals = Pictorial Communication: Interlacing value-based Graphics or related Skills regarding a General Topic -- that can create a-Context with a possible Ys-Principle for easy Memory Bank storage.
   
Building Ambient Intelligence that leads-to Intellectual Acuity and Contextual Intuition requires Visual references to create Context that generates Principles. “Visceptuals” shift from Word-Thinking (details) to Visual-Thinking (Concepts-in-Context).
     
Try it yourself. All you need to create a Visceptual is an Idea + paper and pencil, and a large eraser.

Example of Visceptual


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Artificial Intelligence (aka: A.I.) is a-Tool
— that smart-people can-use to protect their uniqueness
+ their options + their opportunities when it feeds/fuels their
 "Art of being a Smarter Human Being" that develops their
Ambient Intelligence → Intellectual Acuity → Contextual Intuition.

Anyone can learn How-to survive and thrive during the 4th Industrial Evolution by acquiring The Art of being-Smarter to Deal-with / Use A.I. → Q-A.I. DIY On-the-Fly -- with Coaching / Mentoring available for all ages (18-80) that-is Color-Blind + Culturally Oblivious + Gender Neutral + Caste Impervious + Ageless and Stresses Common Sense that has been tempered on the Anvil of Experience in lieu of U.S. Schooling's XX Chromosome DNA-based Cognitive Intelligence that peddles the 3Rs+CC (Rote - Regurgitate - Replicate -surmise + Conform and Comply) that certifies students' conformance with Diplomas and Degrees of Incompetence.
   
The primary Recreational Activities that develop Ambient Intelligence and its capability => Strategic Adaptability are: 1) Sailing; 2) Soaring; 3) Surfing.

Increasing our Intellectual Acuity — can-make-us Happier with our Situation and Circumstance + Our Relationships + Our Options and Opportinities + Our Community and Our Country. The United States of America.

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 “Pursuit of Happiness”

 

   
Author:
 John M. Comer => SAR; 13th Generation to graduate from a U.S. University
Builder: Jill A. Comer => DAR; Lineage built the Oregon Trail.
   
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