Positive feedbackloops

Personal Improvement

In Taichii Onno points out there is a Time and Place for everything. While in process engineering we STOP the bad thing immediately, we sometimes have to ride the momentum of the bad activities until we figure out how to “land safely” in order to fix the problem. One can’t just “crash and burn” thinking they can walk away and fix the problem.

A lot of the Process Operations studies have become very philosophical (in the sense its a way of thinking). I get why, its an overlay over our intuition because the problems are sooo overwhelming to our minds the intuitive sense just signals us and just gives us the tools to slowly digest and process the information and the issues. Its Dunning Kruger effect (knowing what is a wrong course of action) magnified by Paranoia and Imagination (by the Analysis methods like 5Whys 5Wahs, and playing around with those techniques with risk management) giving a sense where to start looking for the problem.

I feel that given Opportunity and Training, Process Engineering when applied to Personal Improvement will create a snowball effect. Especially when the person has gamified it (knowing how to design their feedback systems in a FUN way).

Game Design and Personal Improvement

So with Game Design, Process Engineering, and Personal Improvement we create a positive feedback loop if we can find the opportunity to start that positive cycle.

Mental Blocks

Mental Blocks or Mental Stalling

Mental Blocks or stalling. These are times where I’m confused. When this happens probably I’ve exhausted my working memory and forgotten all the key information. Since I typically just remember key information (like goals, constraints, and rational) I don’t know how much we’ve deviated from them or so much of the situation has changed when new information push out old important assumptions.

Basically, mental blocks are when we get lost and fail to perform the feedback process of checking our assumptions, goals, and understanding against the new information that overloads our working memory. So If I developed a conditioned process of writing down key goals and assumptions I process them in the act of writing and unload information from my working memory. Checking conflicting information becomes easier when I document them and save the rest of my working memory to load my problem solving skills.

Goals and Constraints

Stating Goals and Objectives, and Tracking Concerns, Issues, Constraints, and new information as it relates to all the other information. Setting up Feedback loops, Freeing up Working Memory to better deal with problems,

Applied to Me, now that I have 2 kids, crucial in implementing Lean Manufacturing by Studying under my Six Sigma Mentor and Training others on my studies and I’m going to be cast to a life of Training and Training others and documenting it in a way that if anything happens to me, they do not lose much,

Game in the Brain