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  New thinking, new thoughts

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The Mind Gym

the mind gym

the mind gym covers four interconnecting sections:

• kinds of minds: different ways our minds appear to work under different circumstances
  
• organisational & collective intelligences: how 'dumb' acts can aggregate into collective 'wisdom'
  
• models & maps: various models and other schemata (all necessarily simplistic, some reassuringly conflicting) which can aid our understanding of people and societies
  
• people & their ideas: seminal ideas from original thinkers

New ideas and new ways of thinking will change minds, thereby to helping us all to develop the ingenuity and intelligences needed to create and manage societies and organisations through the complexity and unpredictability of the 21st century.