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# The Notebook on COMMON SENSE, ELEMENTARY AND ADVANCED

is devoted to development, exposition, and illustration of what may be the most important of all fields of knowledge:

## WHAT IS GENERALLY TRUE AND IMPORTANT =

## PURPOSES:

to help you avoid pitfalls

to prevent mistakes before they happen

to display new paths around old obstacles

to point out new solutions to old problems

to stimulate your resourcefulness

to increase your accomplishments

to improve your capacities

to help you solve problems

to give you more tools to think with

REASONS TO BE INTERESTED IN THE FIELD OF COMMON SENSE, WISDOM, AND GENERAL SCIENCE

COMPUTERS are important -

But the computer field is over 25 years old. Here is a new field where you can get in on the ground floor to make your mark.

But this field is more important than mathematics, because common sense, wisdom, and general science have more applications.

MATHEMATICS is important -

WISDOM is important -

This field can be reasonably called "the engineering of wisdom".

COMMON SENSE is important -

This field includes the systematic study and development of common sense.

SCIENCE is important -

This field includes what is common to all the sciences, what is generally true and important in the sciences.

MISTAKES are costly and to be AVOIDED -

This field includes the systematic study of the prevention of mistakes.

MONEY is important -

The systematic prevention of mistakes in your organization might save 10 to 20% of its expenses per year.

OPPORTUNITY is important -

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## Topic:

## THE SYSTEMATIC PREVENTION OF MISTAKES

## Already Published

Preventing Mistakes from:

Failure to Understand

Forgetting

Unforeseen Hazards

Placidity

## To Come

Preventing Mistakes from:

Bias

Camouflage

Interpretation

Distraction

Gullibility

Failure to Observe

Failure to Inspect

Prejudice

## SYSTEMATIC EXAMINATION OF GENERAL CONCEPTS

## Already Published

The Concept of:

Expert

Rationalizing

Feedback

Model

Black Box

Evolution

Niche

## To Come

Strategy

Understanding

Teachable Moment

Indeterminacy

System

Operational Definition

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