My obsession with lists, hierarchies, models and structures just got a social validation. Thanks for the video.

Hi David, just wanted to tell you that, here in my place in southern Germany, near Stuttgart, your voice has been filling my rooms for uncounted hours already - and I, intellectually and often empathically, enjoyed every one of them. Please continue your works - you are a fresh thinker!

“Psychology is a pseudo science” I’d love it if you could please expand on this

I also really enjoy your input. What distracted me a little, was that you needed to tell us, that psychology is a pseudo-science (1:56). While you gave some context (american(?) establishment, american(?) academic), for me that wasn't enough at all to not see this statetement as an overgeneralization. And it triggers some follow-up questions: What makes a pseudo-science? Are there branches of psychology or different camps that are not pseudo-science? Is the field that psychology is exploring not worth of exploring at all or should it be simply done in a different way?

I probably have autism, so this kind of thinking is useful for me. I've never been diagnosed, probably because I'm so good at masking, but the way I learned social skills and to read people, was insanely systematic, where I drilled each micro-expression one at a time, and read tons of books. I do take notes, but I hadn't thought of the power of lists before this video. But now that I think about it, Mr. Bezos came up with the idea for Amazon with a list comparing business ideas for the internet, and costs, and revenues. Warren Buffet also used lists to compare investment opportunities, comparing variables.

Glad to see comments aren’t disabled

The cognitive architecture model at the end is interesting if you think about it in terms of birds such as crows and ravens who have been shown to exhibit incredible problem solving abilities and executive function higher than most other birds.

Hi Dave. I've just watched your ST episode 1. I'm a woman in my late 60's and am 'coming to terms' with recognizing that I've spent most of my life unaware that I struggle with both ADHD and autism. I salute your recommendations for using lists to organize thinking. Doing so has been a lifelong practice for me and has helped my thinking to stay better organized and focused. An even more important process for me, however, over the past few years of coping with my particular neuro-divergent biogenetic existence, is journaling. It has proved a remarkable aid in grounding my experiences in reality, reflecting on interactional dynamics, and capturing a snapshot of self and others. Maybe that is part of your note-taking process? Would enjoy knowing your thoughts about journaling.

In lists, a repository of the mind, Each item stored, a thought forever bound. An external brain where knowledge is lined, A sanctuary where ideas are found. In ordered rows, the chaos is contained, A map of thoughts, by lists, we are sustained.

I'm glad ur channel come to my page, ur information is really amazing ❤

This was great! A confirmation of things I already had come to anyway and some great tips for further study. Waiting for part 2!

Man, u giving away so much VALUE it's insane! I absolutely love ur work. Thanks for making an impact on humanity in a positive way!

Thank you for your contribution to the humanity! Great work!

many thanks for this priceless series

That last model is awesome, I'm excited to use it already! Thanks

I'm 5 minutes into your first video and I already tell you I love this channel❤ all your channels I've just been amazing so far

Great Series! Thanks David!

Hello David thanks for sharing, I'm watching in from Uganda. I just got into systems thinking probably this January that just passed after listening to a talk by Peter Senge, then other recommendations came up including yours. I did find 1. Example of Systems thinkers 2. Myths about Intelligence 3.lists and checklist and the book recommendation 4. Models and the guy who came up with those animal taxonomy thing useful. Regards

Recently found out I'm a hypersystemizer. I also read SBC's book and it was like learning how my brain works. Glad I found this video. Keep it going.

The door to ... the KEYS to the Keys to ... the keys to ... ANYTHING ... to Anything to anything

Nice. Understood, that I have natural willing to categorize everything. Struggled for some time because this thing is kind of imperative. But now I have a balance, and I feel that inner model which I use to interpret reality is actively developing. I want to use it more on practice and then write a post about it. I've even created name for it: "Thinking in terms of the processes, states and spaces". Thanks for your work!

Outstanding! Thank you.

YES, I was thinking about this in a completely unrelated context( physics and engineering) this morning coincidentally.

Interesting video, David. Thanks for suggesting bibliography.

Thank you. Yes this value 👍🏼

Appreciate this and am following!

You're on a roll today, Dave.

Hi, I am a completely admired viewer of your talks. I'm also autistic and I like to view everything strategically, systematically, complexity focused, divergent and I'm really happy to know there are people like me that like to view the profound madness of things. Have you tried nodal/systemic tools like plectica, heptabase or figjam? I think they go beyond lists and make the complexity more reasonable because you can view systems inside systems and how systems interacts with other subsystems. I'm working in a fully navegable map of information with drag and drop functionally and the ability to easily navigate in one single canvas how all the information. Perhaps is a dream, but I hope if it now me someone will make that amazing tools. Again, you inspire me a lot.

I recommend the book "the art of thinking in systems" by Steven Schuster

Thanks man

Great video Dave. Some nice validation in there for me haha. Maybe you could touch on how the flow of systems thinking works, ie Lean, and practical approaches to applying systems thinking.

Thanks

The taxonomy concept has really been helping me with self learning python libraries and modules. The way my brain works, I have a lot of anxiety unless I can orient myself within a universe of concepts. People always make fun of the sprawling, immature nature of the JavaScript ecosystem- but the world of packaging, distribution, and environment management within Python is exhausting. I wasted a week of my life trying to get pipenv to work. Lol

You are genius 😊

Can you put all the recommended resources and descriptions for easier access?

How to remain intelligent dynamically, while maintaining empathetic in composure and identity.

Regarding IQ and speed, the IQ is measured on the speed of solving a problem, but in real life problems are more complicated than their skinned down theoretical models used in questions. To solve a problem often needs knowledge, so the more relevant knowledge you have in relation to the problem the longer it is going to take to find your best solution, but also the better the problem is solved. So even this far we see IQ is one dimensional and really we should be thinking in two dimensions: the speed of execution and the performance of the solution. Also a related issue with maths is most maths you learn at school is a narrow subset of all of maths, where we have neat solutions, e.g. the equation of how to find the roots of a quadratic is neat, but what they don't tell you is the cubic solution is highly ugly, and beyond that you can't, or at least not in the way you were taught for quadratics.

What is that walrus doing in ursidae? 9:39

"Here we are a couple million species later". LOL!

Personally, while agreeing with this entire concept and believing it to be true and helpful: I have had a life long problem with my handwriting. It's a mess and always has been a mess. So in my case that is like saying that if I lose my eye glasses I'm going to have a serious problem with following even the best advice if seeing is a must.

Is there any bibliography that I can refer?

Is there enough scientific evidence for intelligence being divided into a systemathizing and empathizing component?

Diversification is a result of evolutionary processes. May be -> The 'inner life of the human being' (perception & interpretation and processing of data to come up with a good answer) is both individual and type-dependent, Did the Industrial Modernity conduct **intelligence measurements to filter* people for various work processes? ___yes/No ? ;-))) Intelligence is in deed measured as speed - but also by memory_performance for -> *text!!* (Audio/Video)! If one imagines intelligence as a contribution to CreativeLife in the social and physical world, our intelligence measurements are absurdly simplifying. *Intelligence measurements: By this I don't just mean explicit intelligence tests - they are carried out quite rarely. (((After all, the extremes of the bell curve are very rare - most are by definition: mediocre. By definition!!! ;-))) *All tests in school* are rough intelligence tests. *Literally rough* The filter "Great stamina for stupid work at low wages" is not science fiction.

Just to let you know, there are people who are so lazy that their brains have adapted to not having to take notes. Instead, they rely on recall and associate notes with shapes or symbols rather than paragraphs. So they only remember vital information and nothing that could just be looked up. What type of thinking would that be called? So I can research it and improve it.

Whats your iq

Love ur videos man but not everyone who listens to your brilliance isn't autistic so weird when you talk like everyone is. Keep up the great work tho. Peace.