Comments on: Why knowledge games work

By: Charles Knickerbocker

Charles Knickerbocker — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:39:56 +0000

This reminds me of the Johari Window
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johari_window
which has lots of game applications for individuals and groups; even online tools.
I’m looking forward to adding images and graphics next time I use it with a group.

By: Sunni Brown

Sunni Brown — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:28:48 +0000

Excellent, Jeremy. That is totally a missing piece of the pie. If that diagram shows up in the book, I’ll revise it to include your wonderful observation.

By: jeremy

jeremy — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 05:36:39 +0000

I LOVE this, Sunni. I think I’d add a slice for what we don’t know that we know. It’s not a big one, but it’s important. Part of the reason we play knowledge games is to unpack knowledge we don’t even know we have: insight, assumptions, and otherwise, right?

By: Sunni Brown

Sunni Brown — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:47:03 +0000

Thanks, Michelle! And that’s an interesting question. One one hand I want to say that any associations we make are able to be made BECAUSE we have information about “stuff” that we already know. On the other hand, playing with associations does make it possible to create a bridge between bits of information that we otherwise wouldn’t have made. I think free association is a hugely powerful technique, but I’m not sure where it lands in the big pie. Like you suggested, it might be the vehicle by which we get access to ‘what we don’t know we don’t know.’ I can share a personal anecdote about getting access to one of my own major blindspots, but it was facilitated via knowledge of another person, who could see something I couldn’t see – a part of the pie I couldn’t access. VERY interesting. Thanks for reading it; I’ll think more about your question.

By: Michelle Milla

Michelle Milla — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:45:39 +0000

Great post Sunni! This is universal to learning with unlimited applications for both personal and professional pursuits. Curious to your thoughts on associative learning/thinking. The kind of learning that is a process of making associations between things without drawing on past experience – free association. It seems completely divergent from the two categories of “knowing what we know” and “what we know that we don’t know” — it’s almost in another realm itself. Maybe free association is a type of knowledge game? A way to get access to the big piece of pie? I want to think outside the pie 😉

By: Sunni Brown

Sunni Brown — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:11:10 +0000

I love it. We could also call it the “not” of thinking. 🙂 I’ll have to look up R.D. Laing. I am certainly intrigued by that black hole of knowledge where so much possibility is.

By: Larry Irons

Larry Irons — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:43:42 +0000

Nice points Sunni. Reminds me of the knot of thinking offered by R.D. Laing.

“If I do not know that I do not know. I think I know.

If I do not know that I know. I think I do not know.”

R.D. Laing