Darin

Articulate Rise and Synthesia

I enjoy being able to leverage various instructional design tools to create courses. Today, I created a course based on some recent psychological research. The course is How to Take the High Road. Check it out!

U.S. Capitol Insurrection

As we approach the third year anniversary of the U.S. Capitol insurrection, I thought it would be interesting to show a couple other background pieces:

This is video that appears to be from Donald Trump Jr. around the time of the insurrection.

This is a presentation dated 5 January 2021 outlining the options for January 6th.

Critical Thinking

Found this graphic online. It is always great to review over refreshers like this to keep yourself sharp.

Probability

What do you mean when you say something is “probably” going to happen? Does that mean 50%? Greater? Less? In many fields, especially in intelligence, people use words to describe the likelihood of something happening.

Sherman Kent, one of the CIA’s premier intelligence professional, wrote about this subject. Since then, others have studied it and put together graphics to describe the words and their estimative probability.

Charles Weiss wrote about this subject in 2008. He published the below graphic:

Interestingly, other researchers reportedly conducted a poll in Fall 2021 with 956 participants to see their reporting. Here is their results:

So, what do you mean when you say something will probably happen?

Burnout

Are you struggling with work/life/obligations/etc.? According to recent research, more and more people are experiencing symptoms of burnout. While not scientific, I really like the below graphic from @thepresentpsychologist regarding burnout.