Sunday, 28 September 2014

Chess Model

When you play a game of chess understand the plan and the ideas that are hidden in the blindfolded position too. There are many concepts and plans to be learned, & applied in your games too. Playing without a plan will make sure you lose, your pieces going aimlessly not working together harmoniously like a family to achieve a common goal. Chess strategies should be honed to paint as an artfully good player through. Be patient as genius also could not trod to it overnight.

Tactics is most vital. If can't see a combination, "How do you plan to win?"  you will be nothing more than a blind duck running around in circles. Before you learn to play the game in a positional way, try to develop your tactical abilities to the best. By keeping an eye  to all your positions where you slipped through. Involving yourself more is the way to magnify. Which can't be mastered only by reading books or solving puzzles though. It’s important to be able to find good ordinary routine moves, to apply chess strategies in your real game moves too.

Your superior knowledge gives you an advantage in a game of chess when you know the opening system better than your opponent do. This often makes the difference between winning and losing as the opponent drifts slowly, but surely, into a bad position. Drawing your opponents to be whatever you focus to win over.

Beginners of chess players discover very quickly that learning how the pieces move is the very tip of the tip of the chess playing iceberg. It's usually sometime during the first several moves of their very first chess game that they find themselves saying, "What now?"

Nothing here is carved in granite and there will be times later when you'll violate one or more of these principles. An underlying principle in the chess strategy of the chess opening is to try to control the center of the board. The chess board's center is typically defined as the four squares right in the middle of the board, its important as your pieces tend to be more mobile the closer they are to the center. Define your own center with the center of what you do, keeping it proportional all the way through.

The Queen is your most powerful piece, but she can't win a chess game all by herself. She's being a very enticing target for your opponent in a game, where she can be easily trapped on a crowded board. Generally, chess opening strategy dictates that the Queen is one of the last pieces you'll develop. Make sure we are not lost with or to the crowd though.


Career wise, you will learn that there are always exceptions to general strategic principles. Yes, you can think of chess as being divided between strategy and tactics. The truth is that chess is a game of strategy. Tactics make the difference of how easily you succeed to put in practice your strategy. Everything you do on the chess board is strategy. Tactics are subordinated along to what ever you do.

Sunday, 21 September 2014

Bicycle Model

Bicycle is a perfect example of how pure, scientific ideas can be harnessed in a very practical piece of technology. People often say that it's virtually impossible to fall off a bicycle because its spinning wheels make it behave like a gyroscope—but, unfortunately, it's not quite that simple!

Scientists have been puzzling over what makes bicycles balance since they were invented, back in the 19th century. In 2007, a group of engineers and mathematicians announced they'd finally cracked the mystery with a set of incredibly complex mathematical equations that explain how a bicycle behaves—and it turns out that gyroscopes are only part of the story.

According to these scientists, who used 25 separate "parameters" or "variables" to describe every aspect of a bicycle's motion, there's no single reason for a bicycle's balance and stability. As they say:

"A simple explanation does not seem possible because the lean and steer are coupled by a combination of several effects including gyroscopic precession, lateral ground-reaction forces at the front wheel ground contact point trailing behind the steering axis, gravity and inertial reactions from the front assembly having center-of-mass off of the steer axis, and from effects associated with the moment of inertia matrix of the front assembly"

In fact, let's ask a basic question: “What is learning?”

It is important to note that learning and behavior are linked together. Learning can change or modify our behavior, while our behaviors are often antecedents for additional learning. You cannot have one without the other. For instance, consider the steps in learning to ride a bicycle. First, we see someone riding a bicycle. Either out of curiosity, desire, or necessity, we decide to learn to ride. We push on the pedals to propel the bike forward. Balance is an important part of riding a bike. As we ride the bike, we may fall several times. We may complete one behavior, i.e. pushing down on the pedals, & with it improper balance may cause us to fall. From the consequence, we learn to lean more to the opposite side so we won't fall on the next try.

This process or trial and error continues until we get used to the feeling of balance required to stay upright. We are proud of ourselves as we speed down the street with perfect balance until we realize we don't know how to stop. After more tries and more skinned knees, we finally learn how to stop without getting injured. As seen in this example, learning & behavior precedes additional learning which in turn modifies our behaviors. Therefore these two concepts learning & behavior must co-occur for progress to take place.


"Learning how to learn is one of the most important skills in LIFE"



Sunday, 14 September 2014

Gear Model

The other day shifting my gears with my car gears made me realize, why we don’t have a learning to this? Bringing you a jukebox colored with my own threads. A perfectionist in driving by now must be having his first driving lesson, good & old as history to him. Changing gears can be a difficult process for many learner drivers then practicing along block changing - from 5th into 1st, 4th into 1st, and 3rd into 1st gear. Neutral a position where no gear selected, in our instances when we refuse to take an action we get labelled into same. Placing it ahead & above our Sleep-Mode.

When we start off towards our goal or project name it as you like. You will always start from 1st never end up doing a high jump straight to 5th. But gradually lift & take all the gears without skipping a single one in the process. To reach the highest point where you can maintain your balance to the speed.

It's very common for learner drivers to force the gears. How smoothly the gears change depend on the driver, rest the make of car and the quality of the gearbox and clutch should fade away. Aiming not to leave a single stone un-turned will make us blame less on the car as we need to be the best drivers irrespective of our mode.

Whilst learning to change gear, you simply guide & glide with the lever in the correct direction of your selection without pushing too hard making it sound like your only conquest. The gentle you are, the easier it is. What makes me love this whole process is even when we are at our highest the gentle word does not leave its side.

Selecting the wrong gears isn't necessarily a test failure providing it isn't done to excess. Can be a common for a learner driver during lessons and driving test to select the wrong. The most common to be incorrect is 1st gear when the intention was 3rd and 4th gear when intention was 2nd. Makes me only smile as shows to others our focus is a mismatch, where a new explorer who does not do this will make me wonder more. The whole thing gets boiled to master your reflexes to your best.

Several years ago, when slowing down from a high speed to a slow speed or a stop, you would need to go down through the gears before stopping. With modern cars this is not necessary. Time has & is changing, technology is moving faster than us. No reason for us to be behind, with innovative thinking you also need to innovate yourself. Which often we all forget…. Innovative You = Innovative Thinking.


“Exploration is the engine that drives Innovation”

Sunday, 7 September 2014

Conductor Model


Have you ever flexed your muscle by looking at the musical band, “How they operate in synchronization to a person waving his wand in the air?” Before delving further, we know an important cog in the wheel. How do we address him? Do you have a name? Nor did I, but decided not to leave it blind. Asking on same from the lead would mark a red cross in my book of manners. Research work is a tool which I knew will take me through. The one which I felt defined him the best, out of several given to him was the “conductor”.

The conductor's craft may be described as an art of persuasion by which musicians, audiences, and communities come to share a deep connection with the orchestra and its repertoire. Passion, intellect, insight, musical talent, and charisma all come into play. A conductor's authority flows from the power of his musical vision, the skill & facility by which musical ideas are communicated through physical movement as well as verbal instructions.

One of the most basic functions of the conductor, I learned, was simply keeping the whole orchestra coordinated, so that all the different musicians started and stopped playing at the right time. One key to this was to express the beat of the music through the movement of the conductor’s baton. Musicians count the number of beats when they are silent, and begin playing at the right time. Different songs have different rhythms, and so the conductor uses different movements to express the beat depending on the rhythm.

To simplify & eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. While a conductor should give players direction a great conductor treats his players as partners. Focusing on making music together, rather than controlling their each note, giving them the desired freedom in guidance.

There is a mismatch between “what science knows & what businesses do”. While research shows traditional incentive motivators are not effective at getting employees to do what you want, businesses use them anyway. If we really want high performance on those definitional tasks of 21st century. The solution is not to entice people with a sweeter carrot or threaten them with a sharper stick. We need a whole new approach in which companies provide employees with a high degree of autonomy to explore their own ideas.

After being re-acquainted with Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, had an epiphany. “We’re not asking meaningful metrics,” “We’re not asking important questions. We’re not asking anything that’s intangible.” Revamp the company’s business model to focus on some less than tangible indicators of success, the higher needs of customers & investors.