Game in the Brain

With the Title I wanted to Emphasize the Negative Aspects that are overlooked by most people when they promote education.

I believe skills are more more automatic-reflexes of the mind. Conditioning to allow us to concentrate, which is mostly remembering key things under pressure, or immediately remember chunked information that can be decompressed (triggering a compulsion to elaborate on a long memory that is reinforced by ruminating it again).

Skills drill into people some KEY fundamentals that is so embarrassingly simple when explained but incredibly versatile in breaking down Complexity. The while the concept of the Alphabet is so simple but we spent so much of growing up learning but takes on another level of complexity when we’re hard wired to understand it.

While Complex Ideas – we keep them in our Temporary Memory, reinforced over and over by Operations (which I realized is short for Repetitive Activities/Tasks/Work, unlike Projects), is something we put down and completely forget about after 40-60 days. 

That being said, with Skills, we have Systems. With systems we have Templates and Processes that we alter, improvise, or build over. When we WORK on these systems: we Invest. Before we invest we take on the DEBT of Opportunity Cost – Actions that we would Gamble with, with no Certainty or Stability, for the certainty of a very narrow field of activities we have conditioned to be confident and rely on. 

Instead of GAMBLING in performing MANY ACTIONS, we take on the Opportunity Cost DEBT and allocate our time to this NARROW field of certainty and try to BUILD over it.

I realize this concepts scales with WORK. That an organization will take on the Debt of Manhours and Material Resources, to further develop a Process and System in the hope that it develops at a rate that it becomes a Significant Advantage.

There is a negative bias on debt, there is also a strong bias favoring Gambling, as well as not enough reflection that furthering a skill entails its own risks.

When ever people wonder – what comes first: Improvement or Resource Allocation – DEBT comes first. This is the terrible reality most people cannot comprehend – that this DEBT is a gamble, some gambles work with good odds, but with the role of the dice so much can happen and we may be too late to avert a disaster.

The ACCEPTANCE of the world and its reality, to accept the potential of being wrong and mistaken, and that Our FAITH that we are right is a mindset that can change when reality shows us otherwise. In this seemingly DARK reality there is a BRIGHT aspect of human resilience and adaptation. This potential of being wrong – should be enough to keep us humble – and actively listening.