The ability to travel mentally through time sets humans apart from many other species, yet little is known about this core cognitive capacity. In particular, what shapes the passage of the mind’s journey through time? Guided by the viewpoint that higher cognitive activity can have a sensory-motor grounding, we explored the possibility that mental time travel is influenced by apparent movement through space.
CONCEPT 1: “LEARNING IS NOT A SPECTATOR SPORT”
CONCEPT 2: “COLLABORATION BEATS COMPETITION”
CONCEPT 3. “EVERYTHING TAKES LONGER THAN YOU THINK” CONCEPT 4: “LESS IS MORE!”
CONCEPT 5: “NEW KNOWLEDGE MUST CONNECT WITH PRIOR CONCEPTIONS”
CONCEPT 6: “GIVE AND GET IMMEDIATE FEEDBACK”
CONCEPT 7: “DON’T GIVE WALNUTS TO BEGGARS WHO HAVE NO TEETH!” [OLD PORTUGESE PROVERB]
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It seems silly at first, but it’s worth the 3 and 1/2 minutes.
Livingstone, A. G., Haslam, S. A., Postmes, T. and Jetten, J. (2011), “We Are, Therefore We Should”: Evidence That In-Group Identification Mediates the Acquisition of In-Group Norms. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 41: 1857–1876. doi: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2011.00794.x link
After a team-development workshop, participants were more aware of groups norms of team work and cooperation especially if they highly identified with their group.
So to increase the effectiveness of socialization techniques (team-development workshops) organizations should also focus not only on norm education (“team work is good”) but member identification (“us-ness).
