💡 Sources of Organization
Learning, progress or achieving a goal requires organized effort. That means it's not random, aimless, chaos.
For example, the scientific method organizes thinking and action so that scientists learn about nature. It's known for being particularly organized and for being much more effective than less organized approaches generally are.
There are many sources of organization. Following the scientific method is one way that your effort/actions may become organized.
If no sources of organization are used, learning will fail. No organization = chaos = no learning. You must have something to reduce chaos – to bring order to chaos – or you'll fail.
Often, people aren't aware of where organization comes from. They don't know they're using organization, but what they do is far from pure chaos. They think of it as unplanned, freeform learning, but some forces causes it to be significantly organized.
What sources of organization exist? Where can organization come from?
Brainstorm what you can below, plus also comment if there's a real example where you can't think of any sources of organization but it appears to have worked out successfully anyway.
For example, the scientific method organizes thinking and action so that scientists learn about nature. It's known for being particularly organized and for being much more effective than less organized approaches generally are.
There are many sources of organization. Following the scientific method is one way that your effort/actions may become organized.
If no sources of organization are used, learning will fail. No organization = chaos = no learning. You must have something to reduce chaos – to bring order to chaos – or you'll fail.
Often, people aren't aware of where organization comes from. They don't know they're using organization, but what they do is far from pure chaos. They think of it as unplanned, freeform learning, but some forces causes it to be significantly organized.
What sources of organization exist? Where can organization come from?
Brainstorm what you can below, plus also comment if there's a real example where you can't think of any sources of organization but it appears to have worked out successfully anyway.
For example traffic lights take into account the fact that drivers might cross paths in certain intersections, so they organize cars by groups, horizontals, and verticals. And drivers already understand what traffic lights are for, so they make decisions based on the constraints that the traffic light rules impose on them.
I don't believe things can go right just by luck, so I can't think of anything that works successfully but it's not organized. I know some people think that the economy is not organized, but I think that's like saying that traffic is not organized just because it is not planed.
Even if you win a prize in a casino, there's a lot of thinking that had to go into making the game, the prize, and the laws that the casino and the winner have to follow.
I have a minor, tangential comment.
Lots of planning goes into traffic. People decide what roads to build, where, with how many lanes, etc. They decide what signs to put up and speed limits to set. They try to predict, plan and simulate traffic flow and figure out how to make it more efficient and safe.
There are also smaller jobs like the people who work (I don't know if they're volunteers or not) at crosswalks by schools around the start and end of the school day. They go out in the street with vests and signs and make the traffic stop so kids can cross easily (and then they wait a while to let cars pass and more kids arrive before doing it again). That is a planned activity that's meant to control traffic to be safer for the kids.
if you try to jump up and down IRL then you will probably notice nothing is happening in the video game. you have to actually use a keyboard and mouse to be able to do things in the video game.
I wear a watch that has an alarm set for 4:40 am every day. That alarm begins a process which allows me to do learning activities before the children wake up and before I am expected by my employers.
I learned that GISTE was using calendly and I started using it as well. I set up time slots for Monday and Wednesday nights after the children are in bed and planned these windows of time with my wife. I can share a link to my calendly if someone wants to speak with me. When I do meetings, I record those meetings using Zoom. I share a link to the recording with the other participant. I keep the meetings private and copy them to a google drive folder. If the participants in the meetings want to share the meeting, I can share it on my YouTube channel. I can use the recorded meetings to allow me to revisit ideas and information asynchronously at a later time. I can treat the recordings the same way I treat any other video: taking notes with timestamps and creating responses in written and/or AV format.
My father played a game with my wife and I a few years back where we would go into his storage room filled with so many things that people may think he is a hoarder. We would find something in the room, blindfold my father, and ask him to find the thing. Through testing via this game, it seemed he might know where everything was located because everything was organized and in a designated place. I think my learning processes which use google docs, git, and youtube are ways of organizing ideas.
Sports do this too. They set the rules and criteria for success. The purpose of playing is to come up with an idea of how to win that takes into account the rules and goals.
Dates are another source of organization. They allow us to arrange past events in chronological order. We can also plan for the future, and we can coordinate with other people because we are all using the same system and we know that we all know how to find our "position" in a calendar.
International standards for time, weight, or size are another source of organization. They systematize the classification of technical information for everyone in the world. This way we can communicate more effectively knowledge across cultures and languages, without having to translate to different systems like we do with language.
https://3.basecamp-help.com/article/86-how-notifications-work
I don't know what gets me to want to finish the project. My rationale changes a lot as the deadline approaches. This method is not 100% successful, because sometimes there's too much to complete and I get overwhelmed.
apple watches are a source of organization for the goal of live healthier and be more fit or something.
you can use the applewatch kind of as a personnel coach.
the applewatch has rings which you can close every day, and it can tell you how your progress is going for completing the rings.
it even has a breath function that asks you if you want to breath for a minute, that can help you calm down or something.
How does it decide when to ask you that? That could be useful to me.
i think either the method they use is secret, or it just kind of randomly happens.