Critical Decision-Making Course on DVD

[Alanzo]

Making the decision to dive headlong into Scientology and become a contracted staff member was one of the most catastrophically expensive decisions I've ever made in my life. I've often wondered "what was I thinking??" when I made that decision and "how can I possibly improve my understanding of decision making to help guard against making decisions like that ever again"?

I found a course online that I've recently purchased and started on that is fascinating for anyone who's ever asked the same thing of themselves.

There is a really great website at www.teach12.com which sells DVDs, audio CDs, and course packs of selected university level courses, mostly on science and the humanities.

I recently started a course I purchased from there on Critical Decision Making, taught by professor Michael Roberto of Bryant University. I'm only 2 lessons of 24 into it, but already it has really shoved my pre-Scientology and Scientology decision making processes straight into my own face and forced me to look at things in new ways.

I'm learning about certain kinds of cognitive biases and other influences that shape the decision making process which were heavily at work in me when I decided to become a Scientologist.

It's really great.

If you are interested, click around on that link above. This is my second course from there, and both courses for me have proven very worthwhile.

[Tanstaafl]

Good heads up, Al.
I'll check this out.

While some of us may be reluctant to let go of our "spiritual" goals after the betrayal/disappointment (delete as appropriate) of CoS and seek answers elsewhere, it is through understanding psychology and thinking habits and processes that we will come to understand how we got sucked into the cult and why we stayed as long as we did.

Personally, I believe that examination and analysis of individual/group psychology and thinking habits/errors has a lot to offer in shedding that thing we used to call "case".

Making the decision to dive headlong into Scientology and become a contracted staff member was one of the most catastrophically expensive decisions I've ever made in my life. I've often wondered "what was I thinking??" when I made that decision and "how can I possibly improve my understanding of decision making to help guard against making decisions like that ever again"?

I found a course online that I've recently purchased and started on that is fascinating for anyone who's ever asked the same thing of themselves.

There is a really great website at www.teach12.com which sells DVDs, audio CDs, and course packs of selected university level courses, mostly on science and the humanities.

I recently started a course I purchased from there on Critical Decision Making, taught by professor Michael Roberto of Bryant University. I'm only 2 lessons of 24 into it, but already it has really shoved my pre-Scientology and Scientology decision making processes straight into my own face and forced me to look at things in new ways.

I'm learning about certain kinds of cognitive biases and other influences that shape the decision making process which were heavily at work in me when I decided to become a Scientologist.

It's really great.

If you are interested, click around on that link above. This is my second course from there, and both courses for me have proven very worthwhile.

[Alanzo]

Good heads up, Al.
I'll check this out.

While some of us may be reluctant to let go of our "spiritual" goals after the betrayal/disappointment (delete as appropriate) of CoS and seek answers elsewhere, it is through understanding psychology and thinking habits and processes that we will come to understand how we got sucked into the cult and why we stayed as long as we did.

Personally, I believe that examination and analysis of individual/group psychology and thinking habits/errors has a lot to offer in shedding that thing we used to call "case".

TANSY!!!

You posting slut!

This is at least the third post from you in two weeks!!

Have you no SHAME???

[Good twin]

I bookmarked it. Thanks Alanzo.

[Tanstaafl]

TANSY!!!

You posting slut!

This is at least the third post from you in two weeks!!

Have you no SHAME???

ALANZO!!!

Derailing your own thread!

Will you never learn?

What can I say? I'm an attention whore.

Actually, I had intended to never post again, but I reflected on it and am now seeking the "middle way".

To be serious for a moment (which goes against the grain ) I think this is a very important subject. This shit needs to be taught in schools.
Scientology teaches almost nothing about the mind. We're all packing one and it's hard to RTFM when you don't have a manual.

I got a bunch of books on persuasion, influence, rational/critical thinking a while back that I never got the chance to read and are sat in Ozzie customs as I write this. I'm looking forward to studying this topic and I'll feedback anything I learn as it relates to the areas of cult mind control, mental automaticities, etc.

I can attest that Alanzo has recommended some good shit in terms of reading materials. I like it when someone does my study research for me.

[Alanzo]

ALANZO!!!

Derailing your own thread!

Will you never learn?

What can I say? I'm an attention whore.

Actually, I had intended to never post again, but I reflected on it and am now seeking the "middle way".

To be serious for a moment (which goes against the grain ) I think this is a very important subject. This shit needs to be taught in schools.
Scientology teaches almost nothing about the mind. We're all packing one and it's hard to RTFM when you don't have a manual.

I got a bunch of books on persuasion, influence, rational/critical thinking a while back that I never got the chance to read and are sat in Ozzie customs as I write this. I'm looking forward to studying this topic and I'll feedback anything I learn as it relates to the areas of cult mind control, mental automaticities, etc.

I can attest that Alanzo has recommended some good shit in terms of reading materials. I like it when someone does my study research for me.

Oh. So I'm your little book worm now?

That's actually ok. Just the first two lessons of this course have really opened my eyes.

For instance, this course uses case studies to illustrate the decision making processes of the people involved in some famous situations. Many of them are related to business, but one case study the professor uses is the 1996 expedition to the top of Mount Everest which got caught in a huge snowstorm and resulted in the tragic deaths of 6 mountain climbers - 2 of which were very experienced in climbing Everest. There have been many books written, and even an IMAX movie made of this expedition.

He uses this situation to illuminate some of the classic mental biases that people have in making decisions. One of which is called the "Overachiever's Bias".

The professor talks about the tendency that people have to be loyal to themselves, and to their own decisions. In order to survive, you see, you often have to have confidence in yourself and believe that you can overcome "all the odds".

This can lead to your ignoring the plain facts right in front of your eyes and keep you on a path to catastrophe.

I thought about the datum that L Ron Hoover gave us that "a thetan can do anything".

I saw Scientologists who embarked on the most outlandish endeavors, and who blinded themselves from plain observation right there in front of them, because of this datum.

"A thetan can do anything" is a built-in lock on the "overachiever's bias"!

It guarantees you will never allow yourself to think with very important feedback!

In fact, I knew a Scientologist who used this datum all the time, believing herself to be a thetan, as defined by L Ron Hoover. Since a thetan can do anything, she routinely lied and falsified the results that our company could achieve for our clients!

Client after client fired our company and took us to court because the results she had promised to them were actually impossible.

But since "a thetan can do anything" we had to "make it go right" on the most absurd, quixotic bullshit imaginable!

I actually have more respect for her now, knowing about this human limitation, and common mistake that people can make.

Scientology ingrains this type of thinking into people.

And this course may very well run it out!

At least that's what I'm hoping.

Your humble servant,

Alanzo

[Tanstaafl]

Interesting. Thanks, Al.

Been listening to Joe's Garage?

[Alanzo]

Interesting. Thanks, Al.

Been listening to Joe's Garage?

24/7.

[Tanstaafl]

24/7.

Ahh..... I suspected you were a "latent appliance fetishist".

PS, can I borrow your XQJ-37 Nuclear-Powered Pansexual Roto-Plooker? They're a bugger to get hold of in Oz.

[programmer_guy]

Making the decision to dive headlong into Scientology and become a contracted staff member was one of the most catastrophically expensive decisions I've ever made in my life. I've often wondered "what was I thinking??" when I made that decision and "how can I possibly improve my understanding of decision making to help guard against making decisions like that ever again"?

I found a course online that I've recently purchased and started on that is fascinating for anyone who's ever asked the same thing of themselves.

There is a really great website at www.teach12.com which sells DVDs, audio CDs, and course packs of selected university level courses, mostly on science and the humanities.

I recently started a course I purchased from there on Critical Decision Making, taught by professor Michael Roberto of Bryant University. I'm only 2 lessons of 24 into it, but already it has really shoved my pre-Scientology and Scientology decision making processes straight into my own face and forced me to look at things in new ways.

I'm learning about certain kinds of cognitive biases and other influences that shape the decision making process which were heavily at work in me when I decided to become a Scientologist.

It's really great.

If you are interested, click around on that link above. This is my second course from there, and both courses for me have proven very worthwhile.

I saw the reviews ... both pro and con. It looks okay to me.

I got a lot of this stuff after I blew SCN and re-entered college and took a course: Philosophy 7 - Critical Thinking. I suppose that it was a lot like this one.