Todd, thanks for the invitation to visit your site and to read the excellent interview with an expert in the field of brainwave technology.
Thanks for your visit and your kind words!
Hey man-- GREAT post, and I am so glad I found your blog!
I posted an article today on Brainwave Technology....I am wondering your thoughts on these products...? You can see the article here, and thanks for having such great content!!
http://www.wethechange.com/the-g...-nothing-about/
Todd
Added to what you say, Jim is the actual selection of the picture. I thought about many possibilities. As you develop your reason for choice along with the interpretation it gives you a wide open arena.
I worked with business and education professionals in China for six weeks so I know what you say about tradition. But the Chinese are very creative, as you say. Since Ellen Weber and I used Multiple Intelligence Teaching Approaches as we facilitated graduate level business courses, the Chinese were alarmed at first, but after about two days they fell in love with it. One student said, "We love your class because we're always surprised by what we do during class." This was a very amazing experience for all of us.
The choice of the picture certainly provides the option to use a picture developed in any culture.
You open a door to deep reflection. Thanks for your input, Jim.
Robyn,
The rorschak-like question would seem to do two things: 1) it immediately reveals how readily one rises to the challenge, which would suggest how accustomed and open to such challenges one generally is. I know that many students from parts of the world that routinely outperform American students in fixed knowledge would be dumbstruck at being asked to think creatively or critically in this way. Not that they can't, just that they typically are neither asked nor trained in school to. It would certainly be helpful if we could find a way for educational institutions to combine these abilities in a general 12-16 year learning curriculum.
2) much of interest can be discerned by the instinctive way the candidate "fills in the blanks," as you say - this is the rorschak test part. As long as this is only a part of a larger assessment, it can be an informative one.
This is indeed an interesting approach for the school to take, but it can be as misleading as it might be enlightening if it isn't administered by people as aware of its strengths as of its weaknesses. In particular, students such as I referred to above might generate innovative reactions to the question that incorporate more creative structure, than what might be a more disengaged, free-floating imaginative content one might expect from a different educational system. Moreover, from the rorschak perspective, assessment of the reaction can really lead to problems across cultural boundaries.
An interesting experiment. I hope they do impact studies on it.
This is another really great topic, and a clever presentation of it - pushing one to think.
Hi April, if we think only though our own perspective we limit our possibilities. Thanks for pointing this out.
Yes, I did get your tag and I am up to the challenge!
"explore what it wants"
This line of thought seems useful to a good many things. Many times are brain is filling in what we want and we miss the truth - or at least alternate possibilities.
BTW - you've been tagged 
Brad, the problem solving and even more the ability to be flexible is key to skills needed more and more by today's businesses. Many just never learned these skills so they can apply them in many different environments.
Thanks for your comment.
Hello Michelle, Yes, after reading your post I can see even to a greater extent why the interviewing process is so critical to discover the folks with these abilities. One leads to the next. Hopefully in the next few years we'll do away with the memorization model since it's not effective for the world in which we live. Knowledge changes much too quickly.
Thanks for stopping by with your wisdom.
You and Michelle are right on target. The pace of change in business is faster than it's ever been and will just keep accelerating. You can't just learn "a job" any more. From a hiring standpoint, companies need people who are able and willing to solve problems and adapt.
Robyn,
I agree that this is a wise mode of questioning. I argued a similar point when I posted a critique of the most popular job interviewing model, behavioral based interviewing. This model has some benefits, but it does not get at potential, which is what college admissions are looking for as well.
I argued that if you want to prove candidates can prepare and recite, behavioral based interviewing is great. If you want to see how they solve problems, ask problem solving questions. This sounds like a no brainer, but many interviewing models don't ask interviewees to solve new problems during the interview process.
http://www.missionmindedmanageme...r-target-
market
Regards,
Michelle
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