A Little Bit of Knowledge...
Why do our teams make the same mistakes over and over again? Why do they fail to do the things they agree to in a retrospective? Why are some problems so hard to solve? Why do so many of our best intentions not survive contact with reality? I’m going to present an answer based in cognitive science that will give us a framing to be more effective leaders and team-mates. In the process I’ll introduce you to a framing which I’ve found pretty transformative for my own life, wisdom questing, and ability to create meaning. No big thing then. Professor John Vervaeke (Cognitive Scientist at University of Toronto (He’s brilliant)) describes four different types of knowledge, Procedural, Propositional, Perspectival, and Participatory. Let’s dive into those. For each kind of knowledge I’ll give a basic introduction to how we acquire it and what happens when it goes wrong. (if you want more of this kind of thing, sign up to my Substack where I'll be publishing in...