HUMAN 1QU3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Simon Sinek, Work Ethic, Sensemaking

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Humanities (General)
• Course: HUMAN 1QU3
• Professor: Scott Johnson

Document Summary

Addiction to phones - impacting ability to make strong, genuine connections. Social media gives us a way to quantify what people think of us. More an increase in awareness: things you don"t know, might find interesting, facts to help you solve a problem you care about, facts that will you help someone understand the concept better. Tool helps us discover an issue: history, structure and composition, categorization, turning positive into negative, turning open into closed courses, agreeing/disagreeing w/ sources. Metaphysics - study of nature of being. Effective leadership requires taking risks, self awareness/honesty, relationship building. Not just about being in power - about everyday actions. Millennials making up more and more of workforce - but they have less experience. Method of practical wisdom grounded in the humanities - opposite of algorithmic thinking. Silicon valley assumptions: clean break between before and after, young people are smarter, dependence on correlation, technology should be frictionless, correlation doesn"t equal causation.