Targeted Neuroplasticity - Rethinking Thinking
John Kennedy is a pioneer in the field of Applied Neuroplasticity. He was originally contracted by the US Marines in 2006 to develop the first Targeted Neuroplasticity Training program to reduce casualties in combat and improve Warfighting capabilities.

Stress preparation rewires outcomes.

Just a few hours of Combat Brain Training improves focus and situational awareness and accelerates mental and physical reaction times through applied neuroplasticity. Several years ago, John migrated the program to the civilian sector with similar results in the corporate world. Trainees include Marines, Snipers, Special Operations forces and their instructors, pilots, professional athletes, business people, students, children and those suffering from brain trauma including TBI, PTSD, and concussions. All participants have had their lives positively changed by the program.

John's insights refine the way your brain can grow improved coping through balanced self-management in the context of unpredictable change. How you think matters. Planning details matter.

Ed Note: In one sentence: he trains you how to think. - Must listen to his deeper thinking and applications with the perspective of Systems 2 processing.
Neuroplasticity - On Thinking Systems
Essential reference: Thinking Fast And Slow by Kahneman - Global Amazon Link - This interview and the next, Dr. Gleb Tsipursky CBJ/124 [linked when published], both address interesting applications for advanced System 2 thinking. Group-think and label-beliefs encourage more regressive and limited System 1, binary thinking. System 1 processes, as you will see in this summary from Wikipedia, are more stereotypical reactive with diminished prefrontal cortical, executive function process - no strategy or tactics.
Thinking Examples

* System 1: Immediate Survival - Fast, automatic, frequent, emotional, stereotypic, subconscious, and most importantly, reductionistic and time-bound on the present [Korzybski]. Think: emotionally reactive, without thinking. Examples (in order of complexity) of things System 1 can do:

* see that an object is at a greater distance than another
* localize the source of a specific sound
* complete the phrase "war and ..."
* display disgust when seeing a gruesome image
* solve 2+2=?
* read a text on a billboard
* drive a car on an empty road
* come up with a good chess move (if you're a chess master)
* understand simple sentences
* connect the description 'quiet and structured person with an eye for details' to a particular job

* System 2: Slow, effortful, infrequent, logical, inclusive, calculating, conscious - involving planning, strategy, the big picture, the future beyond this moment in time able to balance and cognitively consider complexity. Examples of things System 2 can do:

* brace yourself before the start of a sprint
* point your attention towards the clowns at the circus
* point your attention towards someone at a loud party
* look out for the woman with the gray hair
* dig into your memory to recognize a sound
* sustain a higher than average walking rate
* determine the appropriateness of a behavior in a social setting
* count the number of A's in a particular text