Timewise, it’s interesting to see that the celebrated Greek thinker Plato lived in ancient Athens around 2500 years ago. Because just around the same time, in ancient China, lived another great thinker … K’ung Fu Tzu.
This ancient Chinese master started one of the world’s most successful schools of thinking and his memes have gone viral and spread around the world and infected even more people than the Western Platonic memes.
Master K’ung (or Confucius as he has come to be known in the West) developed positive memes on ethics, behaviour and relationships and devoted his thinking to finding better possibilities in the world. He was a great master of CVS to BVS thinking.
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Confucius had an insatiable thirst for knowledge of antiquity. In his sayings, he rarely used negative prohibitions but preferred to offer positive memes on how to find a BVS if you wish to behave as a chun-tzu or gentleman. What moved him was no lust for power but the will to attain true mastery. If you seek ‘self x10’ then understand your strengths and develop them with practise and mastery. But he was no abstract philosopher. He saw the need to be both a man of thinking and a man of action.
“I hear and I forget.
I see and I believe.
I do and I understand”.
– Confucius
His nature strikes us as smiling, open and natural. He was a man of the world and of the street who was driven to find ways to help improve the human condition. He founded a school for future statesmen. He edited the classics. And, most significant of all he is credited with beginning China’s great explosion of thinking in all its breadth and potentiality.
As a teacher Confucius was always encouraging his students to learn. He also believed in the importance of daily training and practise.
The Master said:
Is it not pleasant to learn continually and then to put it into practice?
Regardless of how the world treated him, Confucius could still maintain a positive attitude and go on learning and teaching.
Like Confucius SOT also uses Practise, Repetition and Rehearsal (PRR) to teach thinking using tools like brain software cvs2bvs.
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We also develop and use advanced tools like the TRIIII cvs2bvs matrix below in some of our complex problem-solving workshop sessions with clients.
First is the unlocking of the CVS to obtain the BVS and secondly to add in the repetition and rehearsal to bolster the thinking into everyday life.
As always, the concept is well grounded in depth of thought. I can see more clearly how PRR works – master one thing and expand its scope by daily and constant usage. I look forward to this part if the training
I look forward to increasing my x10 power. This sounds exciting, 0-10, 10-100, 100-1000.