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Article: Increase your knowledge, awareness & retention: Understand your psychological blind spots.
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- Canadian Manager
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- December 22, 1999
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 1999 Canadian Institute of Management. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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For everything you know, on that same subject there is an equal or greater amount that you don't know. It is said that the information in one weekday edition of the New York Times contains more diverse information than our great-grandparents were exposed to in their lifetime. So how do we know what we know? Where do we get our information?
Some time ago I joined an organization that I'm impressed with. It's called the Institute of Noetic Sciences. Noetic science in this sense means the study of knowing: How do people know what they know? How do they get the information? How do they store and use the information? How do they give it meaning? Where do you get your ...