Welcome to Ring 3

Intro...

Rings 1 - 2

Ring 3

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Challenges

Zoom-UPs

Ys-UP America

CoreCadre+Us

  “..and your Pursuit of
   Happiness”

How-long a list of Chores we can do + how well we perform these Chores testifies to our Cognitive Intelligence and our support-of our traditional Political + Economic + Cultural Heritage.
   
Recognizing-the-Ramifications of our Chores on our Lifestyle + Civility + Equitability -- in light of America’s current Industrial Evolution -- defines our Ambient Intelligence + Intellectual Acuity + Intuitive Potential.

Adapting to the-Realities of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)
+ Augmented Reality during the Age of Automation testifies to our Intellectual Acuity and How-Smart
we are
.
   
Increasing our Intellectual Acuity can-make-us Happier with our Situation and Circumstance + Our Relationships + Our Options + Opportunities + Our Community and Our Country. The United States of America

  
You can get your feet wet here.

Our Presence: "To-Be or Not-To-Be” is a 405-year-old personal question with non-Task-oriented nor Pedagogue-dictated answers.
   
→ Does To-Be what we want To-Be contradict what someone else wants us To-Be? Demands We-Be? Do you know how to avoid subservience -- and protect your Options and Opportunities?
   
→ To-Be Smart enough To-Be-You -- legally, morally, constructively, productively + independently -- starts by subscribing-to Empirical - or Science - or Principle-based “Truths” + comprehending their potential Ramifications and Consequences by making-Connections facilitated by Artificial Intelligence (A.I.). A.I.= Special Information that builds Ambient Intelligence, generates Intellectual Acuity and makes us noticeably Smarter, more Intuitive.

→ Becoming a knowledgeable American who wants to earn/enjoy America's Promise -- Starts Here: A Steganography Section for exposing Knowledge and its Content that should be taught in U.S. K-8-12-16-20 Civics + History + Government + Social Sciences Classes but isn't because it would interfere with Institutional, Local State or National Special Interests, or is deemed too difficult for today's faculty/students.
1) Why the American Revolution? (pdf)
2) The Societal Goals (pdf) of the Untied States
     of America.
3) The uniquely American Process (pdf) for
     achieving those Societal Goals.
4) The U.S. Rules of Law (pdf) that support the
     Process for achieving the Goals of the United
     States of America.


   

To-be or Not To-be Trumped by Q-A.I. and Automation
in the USA's 21st Century Workforce
“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." - Ben Franklin
Adapting-to-Adopting
The Art of being-Smarter®

(3 Months?)


A Reality Check: Where
are you -- Personally and
comparatively? 
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Starts with "Where-are-you?"
+ "Where-you-may-want-
to-go" + Strategic Planning
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Getting there takes
Planning + Preparing + 
Prepping -- before Doing!
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Prologue:
   
“As you wander on through life brother whatever be your goal keep your eye upon the doughnut not upon the hole.” The Optimist Creed
   

To Successfully Ensure that the best Options and Opportunities are yours – Pay attention to what is going on. Stop being a spectator. Get out of the Stands and onto the Field-of-Play. Playing the Game of Life starts with => Where are you? Where do you want to go -- Employably, Relationally, Socially?
   
Yes, you-can or at-least come close. And today you can-do it => DIY On-the-Fly during the USA’s A.I.-Driven => Age of Automation, and Beyond. U.S. K-12-16-20 Schooling Matrix is/will-be a liability.
   
A Heads-up: To use a military concept when the USA was winning its Wars: Get your Head out of your-ass or at least get a Plexiglas stomach.
   
Starts with establishing where you-are so you can Plan + Prepare -- before Doing! (Before taking the "How Smart Am-i?" Test, fill out #1, #2, and #3 on the Worksheet.)

     
Plan + Prepare -- before Doing!
Before taking the "How Smart Am-i?" Test,
fill out #1, #2, and #3 on the Worksheet.

WORKSHEET: Planning + Preparing
-- before Doing! (pdf)


Caveats:
"The best laid plan of mice and
men often go awry."
Robert Burns

All-Human Endeavors are subject
to Murphy’s Law: “What can go
wrong will go wrong.”
     
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So, it is incumbent upon us to D+D:4A =>4C. D+D = Define + Delineate: 4A = Anticipate + Adjust + Adapt + Adopt => 4C = Corroborate + Collaborate + Comprehend + Conjoin

The “How Smart Am-i?” Test
is also an exercise in Intellectual Gymnastics
and can be a Plan-B for Americans facing
the impact of A.I. and the Age of Automation


The Test that we Humans can-use to find out how Smart we are -- personally and comparatively..
  • This is not an I.Q. Test. I.Q. Tests measure
    our Cognitive Intelligence as manifested in our Memorization Skills = Rote & Regurgitation.

  • A Smart Test measures how well we can apply/use the information that we have acquired
    to expand our Options and Opportunities  
              => The Art of Being-Smarter®
      (Obviously + Congenially + Collaboratively)

  • Our "How Smart Am-I?" Test is a Can-Do Test that has 16 performance levels (Connections, aka “Dots”) and can have a 3% error factor. 
How many Connections can you make?
• Level #1 = 1-6 Dots • Level #2 = 7-12 Dots
• Level #3 = 13-16 Dots (out of 32 Possible Dots)
(See Comp-Scale on Retrac.com’s Intellectual Acuity Chart.)
   
Optional Service: Email Us if you would like to participate in a 2-hour RoundTable Discussion ($48)

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You can rate the results
of your test using Retrac.com's
Intellectual Acuity Chart.
Where do you fit?

The "How Smart Am-i?" Test (pdf)

Intellectual Acuity Chart (pdf)



The only Prepping for surviving and thriving during

the Age of Automation in the USA tomorrow can-start today.
There are Four Ways to take
the "How Smart Am-i? Test




Assistance for those who have taken
the "How Smart Am-i? Test


   
To understand why the "Art of being-Smarter" works

and U.S. K-12-16-20 Schooling doesn't, you need to be familiar with 2 things:
• The North Korean POW Separation Program: 7,000 U.S. POWs -
no escapes - first time in history (40% died in Captivity)
• Roger Sperry, Cal Tech, and his 1981 Nobel Prize in Medicine
and Physiology (Responsibilities of Left-Right sides of Cerebral Cortex)

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→ Ring 4 The Art of being-Smarter®
(+ 3 Months ?)
   
Elon Musk just validated "The Art of Being-Smarter"
when he said, "The U.S. must expand the H1-B Program and import lots more
Skilled Labor, Administration, Management from India + China + + +..."
   
Because => U.S. University Grads can't cut it in the Trade-based Global Workforce
(so says the U.S. Trade Deficit + the U.S. National Debt + U.S. Student Debt)

 


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