Learning or problem-solving?

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I’m Johnnie Moore, and I help people work better together

Chris Corrigan reviews a paper on non-linear learning. The bit that caught my eye was this:

It suggests that humans are oriented more toward learning (a process that leaves us changed) than toward problem solving (a process focused on changing our surroundings).

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links for 2010-03-09

Shareable: Can We Design Cities for Happiness? “If we in the Third World measure our success or failure as a society in terms of income we would have to classify