BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT
Quite simply, nothing has had a greater impact on teaching human thinking than the Vatican. It invented universal education which it spread around the world with missionaries, it built schools, libraries, universities and teaching hospitals and institutes of science research. In 2024 it has 230,000 thousand schools globally and over 5,000 hospitals.
Most interesting is that, under the current papacy, it has (at last!) changed its thinking style from judgment (black/white, right/wrong, Greco-Roman logic) to discernment (shades of grey, lateral thinking).
After a decade of teaching discernment, in December, Pope Francis told his government (Roman Curia), “Discernment is a burst of love that distinguishes between what is good and what is better.” This good2better approach is compatible with recent neuroscience and the cvs2bvs software we teach at SOT.
In 2024, the new school of thinking will focus on science thinking; exploring the past and current role the Vatican has in developing science thinking.
The Luciani School is not at all concerned with dogma nor is it qualified to do theology. It is a school of thinking not a school of thought. We stay focused on metacognition,
Whether or not you are in Rome, if you like you can visit the Luciani School here.
The Problem – GIGO
The purpose of Learn-To-Discern training is to help you to multiply the quality of your thinking by ten. Also, using AI as a tool.
This course is 100% by email. Starting today, there will be five email lessons a week for two weeks. All our courses are run Your Course. Your Way. You decide the way you wish to do the lessons. Some do the lessons every day for ten days. Others do them whenever. You decide how you want to apply the course to your interests, your goals and your outcomes. Each lesson takes about ten minutes. You can expect immediate results.
If you need to open your own personal ChatGPT account there is no fee. ACTION: Click here https://openai.com/product and go to MENU then LOGIN.
The Coursebook
You will also need to have your coursebook Learn-To-Discern; A Coursebook for Catholic Thinkers. You should have already received a copy. There is no charge for the coursebook. It was co-written by myself with ChatGPT. You can download it here …
Let’s get started. This is from page 1 of the coursebook. In these supporting lessons there are instructions to READ or for ACTION. Just read the READ parts and do the ACTION parts.
READ here, or on page 1 of the coursebook. The written conversation is between myself and ChatGPT …
READ here, or on page 2 of the coursebook …
READ here, or on page 3 of the coursebook …
ACTION: We use DFQs to help transfer from knowledge to skill by collecting your thoughts and those of the others in the course. Each lesson has a DFQ = Daily Feedback Question. To receive a Certificate of Completion you will want to complete all ten DFQs in this training. To complete today’s DFQ just post your comment below.
Today’s DFQ: What is the most interesting idea, or insight, you personally discerned from this lesson?
GIGO applies not only to machine thinking but also to human thinking.