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Maybe you have tried this: Give any number of people an identical candle on an identical stand. Have them light their candles and then record everything they perceive about the lit candle. Prompt them to use all their available senses.
Maybe you have tried this: Give any number of people an identical candle on an identical stand. Have them light their candles and then record everything they perceive about the lit candle. Prompt them to use all their available senses.
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The thirty years of research in cognitive diversity, in the processing and communications patterns of top-performing individuals, and in 21st century behavioral science, lead us to the touch points for how we capture information.
Even just a few years ago, we thought of attention as a singular skill and our attention span as a single phenomenon. What's emerged is we all have reflexive responses to the information flowing at us from our surroundings. What's more, each of us has an individual constellation of reflexive responses. Our attention is not a single thing. We have multiple attention processes.
One of the Victorian age’s greatest thinkers, Alfred North Whitehead, observed a phenomenon in himself and his contemporary, Bertrand Russell. Russell was a master at reducing complexity down to basic elemental structures, while Whitehead tended to excel at reconciling disparate and even seemingly contradictory facts. Whitehead, with his customary wit, referred to his style of thinking as “muddle-headed” while he described Russell’s as “simple-minded.”
At this point in the 21st century, we have a reasonably durable understanding there are two dominant ways of processing knowledge, or cognition, within our brains. Cognitive scientist, Rand Spiro, has identified two ways our brains build knowledge. We learn some information through discrete serial processes, in the manner of a digital processor, while our brains build the rest of our knowledge through multiple, irregular, and simultaneous overlaps of elements. In short, the research shows our brains have elements of Russell’s “simple-minded” sequential style, at the same time, manifesting some of Whitehead’s “muddle headed” or associative style.
For this purpose, we call Whitehead’s muddle-headed thinking as divergent preferent and Russell’s simple-minded thinking as convergent preferent.
No two of us interact with the universe in the same way. At the same time, there are patterns. Our work is all about exploring those patterns.
Cognitive vs Emotional
How we think about things compared to how we feel about things.
The tools for self-understanding developed prior to the 21st century mixed the cognitive—how we think about things—with the emotional, how we feel about things. Even scholastic examinations and aptitude tests, designed to assess cognition, were conducted under time pressure and under conditions not conducive to relaxation and contemplation; thereby, putting the examined under emotional stress.
Why we thought people training to be historians, poets, botanists, and paleontologists, should be selected by their ability to display their skills and knowledge to artificial deadlines seems obtuse at best, and, perhaps because of that obtuseness, resistant to change. We seem to value moving fast and breaking things over consideration in its broadest meaning.
By this point, we are able to separate how we think about things (attention, focus, energy, clarity) from how we feel about them (irritated, excited, happy, motivated, depressed).
Approach
In addition to developing measures for our cognitive responses separate from our emotional responses, The Kairos Assessment gets underneath learning and aptitude to a place most analogous to our handedness. You can tell me you’re right-handed, left-handed, or ambidextrous but that doesn’t tell me how well you play the piano. However, if I were your coach in that domain, it’d be the first thing we’d establish to drive training forward.
Our aptitude comes from a different place. That’s why a right handed professional athlete will make a play with her left hand that I couldn’t make with my right. She’s a professional athlete on both sides, and I am one in neither. Nonetheless, we use both sides to walk and to carry things with both hands. And by interest or injury, we can develop the capability of our off side. It will take more attention and energy with the result is more cognitively taxing, but within reach, shall we say.
In short, our neuropreferences don’t necessarily determine destiny. Many of us do the cognitive equivalent of juggling chainsaws in spite of unbalanced neuropreferences.
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Reliability
In 1998, Francis Sopper, consulting with Robert Lefton, Ph.D., CEO of Psychological Associates, headed up the preparation of learning-performance materials for the commercial market. The resulting cognitive preference assessment underwent further revision in 2000, following evaluation by Carnegie Mellon researcher Suguru Ishizaki, Ph.D.MIT MediaLab.
Since 1999, Kairos Cognition, now a partner with The David Allen Company as GTD®Focus, has examined thousands of comprehensive diagnostic, aptitude, and achievement testing results, school and college entrance examination outcomes, psychological and educational evaluations, and other performance data.
Kairos Cognition has applied this research with individuals trying to achieve best thinking. This includes heads of multinational organizations, leaders in business, the military, sports, education, design, and entertainment.
The work is always under review as new data emerges from published research in neuroscience together with Kairo's engagement with high-performing individuals.
The Kairos Assessment is 53 straightforward questions designed to capture your reflexive response to information. Completing the survey reveals your strength of response to information from seven neuro-physical processes.
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Associative Thinking
This is our rapid integration process. It involves the ability to link thoughts together based on similarities, patterns, or shared characteristics, often leading to creative problem-solving or new insights.
Sequential Thinking
This is our slow systematic process. It’s a cognitive process which allows us to slow ourselves down, screen out and ignore the stuff around us so we can put our full weight of our attention on one thing in order to follow it through to completion.
While we have access to both ways of thinking, most of us prefer one over the other. Our research indicates that the majority of the population prefers the Sequential, a large number of us are Associative, and a small, but distinctive percentage of us are cognitively ambidextrous.
There are two dominant ways of processing knowledge within our brains. What we refer toas Associative and Sequential thinking.
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You have five separate reflexive responses for each of your communications processors; what we call listener, observer, mover, reader and talker.
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