Discussion

3. How does David Brooks’ ideas about the benefits of nurturing crystallized intelligence apply to your first month of the spring 2019 semester thus far? Be specific. Find three connections.

According to David Brooks, “Crystallized intelligence is the ability to use experience, knowledge and the products of lifelong education that have been stored in long-term memory. It is the ability to make analogies and comparisons about things you have studied before. Crystallized intelligence accumulates over the years and leads ultimately to understanding and wisdom.”

I need to get experience. How can I get this experience? Not from online life such as watching videos or reading on Google. I must do this work on offline life. I have to try and work with a team. I want to complete at least one internship as a part of their undergraduate degree requirements. Interning with a company in my career field is an excellent way to gain hands-on experience. I have to be in volunteer positions where I can increase work experience. Some companies look favorably on volunteer activities.

I need to acquire parts of knowledge and apply them in different settings. I need to take breaks to improve my memory and my ability to solve problems. Learn in differing environments and work with knowledge in differing ways and use multiple senses.

Offline learning, at its best, is more like being a member of a book club than a cocktail party. When you’re offline you’re not in constant contact with the universe. There are periods of solitary reading and thinking and then more intentional gatherings to talk and compare.

Connectedness meant conversation. A great deal of conversation who become each other's databases and servers, leaning on each other's memories, multiplying, amplifying and anchoring the things. We could imagine by sharing our dreams.

The time has come to free our mind, to look up from the screen in front of us and to see the real world again, to exchange a smile (yes, a real smile, not an emoji) with a real person. Update our state, not our status, and disconnect from the world on my screen and reconnect with the real world.

Also, spending so much time on social media makes us less social and even unaware of the real world and the very real people in it. An organization that equips a global movement of community professionals. It’s worth putting in some effort to build communities in the offline world.

And, you have to turn off the offline and online life. Thinking about your goals, what are you going to do tomorrow? Not the same methods or habits. At least one hour in every week, you should think about your goal.

All you need to do is define what goals you want to achieve, and what skills you need to acquire to make it easier.