A Louis Moment

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A Louis Moment

• Dickman and Stanford 1

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• Types of behavioral engagements
• Basic level?everyday life
• Formal level?awareness of challenges,
  frustrations
• and breakthroughs inquiries

Growth in human knowledge (moments of
discoveries)?compound on Investment new
knowledge?prior knowledge new
knowledge Setbacks?Middle Ages and Spanish
Inquisition New knowledge (critical) generates
more knowledge
Louis Pasteur (1857)
Relationship between information, perception and
behavior Louis Pasteur experiment changed the
perception that disease is transmitted by
organism and ?hygiene
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What significant issues and events, in your
opinion, the latter part of the 20th century
will be remember for?

• Answers not in the book
• Historical convergence?when several discoveries
  in related fields happen to advance the
  field?behaviors are changed
• These advances lead to a perceptual shift and
  accommodations to that new place
• That Louis moment in the 21 century
• stemmed from brain discoveries, theories of
  intelligence, new machinery yield the new
  connection between the brain and
• leadership

A perceptual shift
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• For this perceptual shift a breakthrough must
  have occurred
• A period of searching
• Appearing with little or no apparent progress?a
  precipitating event
• Which happens as a cognitive snap?things fall
  rapidly into place
• And transform the mental or physical world