What is Club Ideal?
Club Ideal is a long term project to develop a project and team based mentoring club model that has focus on thinking, relationship and fitness. Focus is on “every now” elements of conscious and purposeful decision-making.
Principles:
THINK BIG… BE REAL
Plan before Acting. Consider purpose and possibility before proceeding too quickly to decision and action.
PURPOSE, PARADIGM, PRACTICE
One’s gold standard set of objectives, frames of understanding and behaviors.
DO UNIT
Every moment we decide to do, or not do, something. Our default thinking gear is automatic, driven mainly by habit, instinct and emotion. With effort, more rigorous, conscious and critical thinking is achievable. Best thinking is conscious, but also utilizes one’s curated gold standards of purpose, paradigm and practice.
PERSONAL AGENCY
We each control what we believe, say and do.
RECIPROCAL REGARD
All humans have the same desire, right and responsibility to control what they believe, say and do.
OBJECTIVE REASON
Logical consideration of data and good modeling.
EFFECTIVE, REASONABLE & FUN
Best practice for all humans.
There is fictional context imagined as useful for example, metaphor and interest generating value.
There is conscious design for lessons to have global, and constant relevance and applicability, at least at a fundamental level.
Club Ideal is based upon:
Mentoring club model
Parent support
Projects
Global application
Teamwork
Decision-making
Head (metacognition)
Heart (relationships)
Body (fitness)
Why Thinking on Thinking?
Every moment’s decision, for every human, regardless of context, is impacted by the effort (and so quality) of the thinking applied.
Awareness of our level of conscious thought, is our first point of control, and so impacting every other thought that comes also in that moment. The tool we always use, including when we use every other tool, is our brain. For best results using any tool, one should understand its capability, bias and maintenance.
The fundamental unit of cognitive time in our lives is the decision. We decide whether and how to act. Often we bundle decisions and actions to further a larger whole called a project.
Understanding these fundamental cognitive aspects is a dramatically undervalued leverage point in educational investment and in the mentorship of humans—if the measure is giving students control in their lives.
