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Dealing with Misinformation: Fake News, Social Media, and the ”Post-Truth” World
By Mario Sikora Part of an ongoing series of articles on clear-thinking skills, excerpted from “How to Think Well, and Why: The Awareness to Action Guide to Clear Thinking” by Mario Sikora (available at www.awarenesstoactionbooks.com). Fake news and distorted truths...
Developing General Knowledge: Overcoming Ignorance
Part of an ongoing series of articles on clear-thinking skills, excerpted from “How to Think Well, and Why: The Awareness to Action Guide to Clear Thinking” by Mario Sikora (available at http://www.awarenesstoactionbooks.com). Last time we discussed ignorance; below are some...
Why We See What We Expect to See: Confirmation Bias and the Enneagram
By Mario Sikora The voice came from behind me in a moment of downtime after an exercise during the training. “So, Mario, have you identified your subtype?” I turned around to see Don Riso standing a few feet away. “Yes, I’m a self-pres Eight.” “No you’re not. You’re...
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Thinking Like a Leader
Like many symbols, the Enneagram makes convenient scaffolding for intellectual constructs. Attempts to create memorable and useful maps and models are often enhanced by a visual pattern. They help the learning process because easily remembered logical patterns help...
Mitt Romney: Profile of a Preserving (Self Pres) Three
It would be difficult to write a more vivid account of a Preserving (Self-Preservation) Three than this article about Mitt Romney. He is portrayed as someone who is both incredibly thrifty, despite his enormous wealth, who is driven to work incessantly. This need to...
Beware the Halo: What to Watch Out for When It Comes to Enneagram Training
Linus Pauling was one of the most brilliant scientists of all time, and the only person to be awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes (one in chemistry and one for peace). There will always be a cloud over his legacy, however, because Pauling made the mistake that many...
Critical Thinking
Developing General Knowledge: Overcoming Ignorance
Part of an ongoing series of articles on clear-thinking skills, excerpted from “How to Think Well, and Why: The Awareness to Action Guide to Clear Thinking” by Mario Sikora (available at http://www.awarenesstoactionbooks.com). Last time we discussed ignorance; below are some...
Why We See What We Expect to See: Confirmation Bias and the Enneagram
By Mario Sikora The voice came from behind me in a moment of downtime after an exercise during the training. “So, Mario, have you identified your subtype?” I turned around to see Don Riso standing a few feet away. “Yes, I’m a self-pres Eight.” “No you’re not. You’re...
Ignorance: We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know
By Mario Sikora Part of an ongoing series of articles on clear-thinking skills, excerpted from “How to Think Well, and Why: The Awareness to Action Guide to Clear Thinking” by Mario Sikora (available at http://www.awarenesstoactionbooks.com). In the last set of articles, we...
Emotional Intelligence / Self Awareness
The Noticing Mind
This is the fourth in a series of articles on mindfulness and the six qualities of the mind. Take a moment and look up from whatever device on which you are reading this, and look around. Notice the people and objects around you. If it is a room you are familiar with,...
The Focused Mind
The second of six qualities of the mind that we focus on at Awareness to Action International. It is the third in a series of articles. Click here for the introduction, and here for part two. We are creatures wired to pay attention to novelty and subtle changes...
Beginner’s Mind: The First Quality of the Mind
My last article (read the article here) introduced the six qualities of the mind that we teach at Awareness to Action International. This article is the second in a series. “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.”...
Leadership
First Things First: Foundational Ideas for Clear Thinking
Part of an ongoing series on Clear-Thinking Skills. This articles excerpted from “How to Think Well, and Why: The Awareness to Action Guide to Clear Thinking,” which is available in paperback and e-book via amazon.com. We Need a Network of Models and Tools We are...
The Well-Rounded Company: Business Planning and Our Instinctual Biases
By Brad Kerschensteiner and Mario Sikora A business grows in stages and its success often hinges on the ability to navigate the common challenges of each stage. Business however often expands and contracts in messy, unpredictable ways due to countless external forces...
The Conducting Mind
The is part of an ongoing series of articles on the qualities of the mind and mindfulness. For the others, visit us at the Awareness to Action Blog Growing up in suburban Philadephia, I had the opportunity to see two of the greatest-ever orchestra conductors, Eugene...