ON DEVELOPING STRATEGIES TO SOLVE PROBLEMS, WANTS, NEEDS.

GRASP
Goal
Resources
Adversity, obstacles
Strategies
Plan A, Plan B, Plan C, Plan D, Plan E….

Understanding:

Study – Science: Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Earth and Space, Mathematics
History
Economics
Description – anecdotal
Story Telling and Writing as methods to discover understanding (not just record events)
A voyage of self discovery
Logic, to find patterns, relationships, causes

MASLOW’S HIERARCHY; BLOOM’S TAXONOMY; RUMSFELD’S CONUNDRUM:

MASLOW’S HIERARCHY
Motivations of people to solve needs, wants, problems, from the most basic: food, water, air, sex, to the more complex and esoteric: self actualization.
Self Actualization
Self Esteem
Social Needs
Safety and protection
Physical Needs
food
Air
Water
Shelter
Sex

ECONOMICS
Every organism, organization, or system needs to bring in more resources and energy during its activities, than it expends in those activities in order to grow and thrive. In human activities, we account for that income and expenditure in terms of money. Because of losses, waste, and reproduction, that income must be substantially more than is expended, and is accounted for as profit.

BLOOM’S TAXONOMY
A way of classifying types of thinking along a spectrum from simpler to more developed, there is discussion that, while there are levels, it may be more complex than a simple hierarchy: a wheel, branches, and feedback:
Synthesis
Evaluation
Analysis
Application
Comprehension
Knowledge
I would add, at the low end:
Awareness
Clueless.

RUMSFELD’S CONUNDRUM
Donald Rumsfeld, in discussing the situation in Afghanistan, voiced great truth about Knowledge and Understanding:
There are Known Knowns: Things we know we know.
There are Known Unknowns: Things we know we don’t know.
There are Unknown Unknowns: Things we don’t know we don’t know.
I would add,
There are Unknown Knowns: Things we Know, but are actually untrue.

SOLUTION STRATEGIES TO SOLVE PROBLEMS, NEEDS, WANTS.
These are Strategies that have been used to try to solve problems. Some are more appropriate than others in different circumstances. Some are more effective. Different societies tend to use different strategies. Using different strategies, in turn, changes the society.

Personal action, development, invention
Technology
Medicine
News, Publicity
Entertainment, Distraction
Recreation
Private Property, Real Estate Ownership
Corporate, Private development.
Jobs, Careers, Unions
Deals
Contracts
Commerce
Banking
Insurance
Diplomacy
Volunteer Associations, Clubs
Neighborhood Associations
Religious Organizations
Theology
Philosophy
Education Institutions
Marriage, Family
NGOs
Communes
Collectives
Violence
Terrorism
War
Warlords
Gangs, Mob action
Military
Battlefield Tactics: Space, Movement, Time, Force, Surprise
Government
Police, Fire, Legal, Taxation, CONTROL
Treaties
Constitution, vs. random custom or individual or group control
Chaos, Anarchy
Parliamentary
Monarchy
Aristocracy
Plutocracy
Representative Democracy
Direct Democracy
Fascism
Communism
Socialism