Essential Skills for 21st Century Survival: Part I: Pattern Recognition « eme... - 0 views
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shared by Enrique Rubio Royo on 13 Apr 10
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The ability to spot existing or emerging patterns is one of the most (if not the most) critical skills in intelligent decision making, though we’re mostly unaware that we do it all the time
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Combining past experience, intuition, and common sense, the ability to recognize patterns gives us the ability to predict what will happen next with some degree of accuracy. The better able we are to predict what will happen, the more intelligent we become. So, you might say that the purpose of intelligence is prediction.
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Let’s look at an example
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Imagine you’re driving home from work
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Your brain is recognizing patterns in your environment.
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In the same way that pattern recognition works in the driving example, it’s working every time your senses take in information.
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your brain is comparing it to things you already know, and seeing how it fits. If it has a reference point, your brain files it away as a correlation or similarity or tangent; if it’s a novelty, your brain is challenged and will either construct a new model for understanding and processing this information, save it for later consideration, or simply reject and discard the information.
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This next stage of the thinking process, of choosing how to integrate information and give it meaning, has been referred to as “sensemaking.
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Knowing which information to integrate and which to disregard is a skill in and of itself
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it is often easier to reject information we don’t immediately understand rather than going through the effort of creating a new mental model
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the ability to anticipate and adapt to changing conditions in the environment are hallmarks of intelligent people and organizations.
