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ជំនាញគិតបែបត្រិះរិះ ជួយ​ឱ្យ​ការ​សម្រេចចិត្ត​បានល្អ និង​ធ្វើ​ឱ្យ​ខួរក្បាល​មានភាពរស់រវើក

គិតបែបត្រិះរិះពិចារណា ឬការគិតបានស៊ីជម្រៅ (Critical thinking) គឺជាការវិភាគនូវហេតុការណ៍ ឬរឿងរ៉ាវអ្វីមួយដោយផ្អែកលើហេតុផល គ្រប់ជ្រុងជ្រោយនៅពេលមានការវិនិច្ឆ័យព្រឹត្តការណ៍អ្វីមួយ។ ជំនាញនេះគេអាចនិយាយបានថាជាលំហរ នៃការគិតដោយគ្មានការកំណត់ពីមជ្ឈដ្ឋានណាមួយមិនថា ស្ថិតក្នុងកិច្ចការប្រភេទណាទេ គឺសុទ្ធតែត្រូវការប្រើប្រាស់ជំនាញបែបនេះទាំងអស់។ វិធីសាស្រ្តនៃការគិតបែបស៊ីជម្រៅគេបានដឹងមកជាច្រើនថា វាមានអត្ថប្រយោជន៍ច្រើនចំពោះសង្គម ក៏ប៉ុន្តែវាក៏បានផ្តល់គុណតម្លៃទៅកាន់បុគ្គលជាច្រើនផងដែរ។ ខាងក្រោមនេះ គឺជា​គុណតម្លៃ​ នៃ​ការ​គិតស៊ីជម្រៅ ៖

១. នៅកន្លែងការងារ ៖ ការគិតបែបត្រិះរិះមានភាពសំខាន់ចំពោះគ្រប់អាជីពការងារទាំងអស់ ទាំងផ្នែកវិទ្យាសាស្រ្តពិត និងវិទ្យាសាស្រ្តសង្គម តួយ៉ាងដូចជា អ្នកច្បាប់, អ្នករាយការណ៍ព័ត៌មាន, វេជ្ជបណ្ឌិត, វិស្វករ, គណនេយ្យករ, អ្នកវិភាគតាមផ្នែក ឬជំនាញណាមួយ និងជំនាញផ្សេងៗជាច្រើនទៀតដែលសុទ្ធសឹងតែត្រូវការគិតប្រភេទនេះដើម្បីសម្រួលដល់ដំណើរភារកិច្ចរបស់គេឱ្យកាន់តែមានប្រសិទ្ធភាព។ តាមរយៈ World Economic Forum ក៏បានឱ្យដឹងដែរថា ការគិតបែបត្រិះរិះពិចារណាគឺជាផ្នែកមួយដ៏សំខាន់សម្រាប់បុគ្គលិកទាំងអស់មិនថាពួកគេកំពុងតែធ្វើទៅលើជំនាញណាមួយនោះទេគឺសុទ្ធតែត្រូវការប្រើរបៀបគិតបែបស៊ីជម្រៅទាំងអស់។ ដោយហេតុថា វាអាចជួយវិភាគព័ត៌មានបានច្រើន ហើយគិតបានជ្រៅជាងមុន និងអាចបង្វែរបញ្ហាឱ្យក្លាយជាដំណោះស្រាយដែលឈានទៅរកការផ្លាស់ប្តូរប្រកបដោយការអភិវឌ្ឍ ព្រមទាំងមានផែនការចងជាប្រព័ន្ធដែលនាំឱ្យសកម្មភាព នៃការអនុវត្តន៍ផែនការមានប្រសិទ្ធភាពក្នុងភាគរយដែលអាចទទួលយកបាន។

២. ការសម្រេចចិត្តកាន់តែប្រសើរ ៖ ចំណុចនេះមិនមានអ្វីគួរឱ្យមានមន្ទិលនោះទេ អ្នកដែលមានការគិតបែបត្រិះរិះពិចារណា គឺជាអ្នកដែលមានការជ្រើសរើសត្រូវ ឬការសម្រេចចិត្តដោយមិនរួមបញ្ចូលនូវ​ភាពស្តាយក្រោយឡើយ។ ជាងនេះទៅទៀតជំនាញការគិតរបៀបនេះជាកត្តាជួយសម្រួលដល់ការដោះស្រាយបញ្ហាប្រចាំថ្ងៃរបស់មនុស្សម្នាក់ៗ ហើយជារឿយៗការគិតបែបនេះតែងតែទទួលបានដំណើរការល្អលើសពីការរំពឹងទុក ពីព្រោះវាជួយឱ្យមនុស្សមានការគិតដោយមានភាពម្ចាស់ការ និងភាពជឿជាក់។

៣. បង្កើនភាពរីករាយ ៖ ខណៈពេលដែលស្ថិតក្នុងស្ថានភាពមួយបាត់បង់នូវ​ការផ្តោតសតិចំពោះខ្លួនឯង វាអាចបណ្តាលមកពីពេលខ្លះមនុស្សភ្លេចដាក់សំណួរមកកាន់ខ្លួនឯងតាមរយៈការគិតបែបត្រិះរិះ។ ហេតុដូច្នេះហើយការផ្សារភ្ជាប់ខ្លួនឯងជាមួយនឹងការរៀនយល់ ចោទសួរខ្លួនឯងតាមរយៈការគិតដោយប្រើប្រាស់ជំនាញត្រិះរិះដូចជា ហេតុអ្វីខ្ញុំមានអារម្មណ៍បែបនេះ? ឬថា តើកត្តាអ្វីខ្លះដែលធ្វើឱ្យអ្នកស្ថិតក្នុងស្ថានការណ៍មួយនេះ? ការដាក់សំណួរទៅកាន់ខ្លួនឯងជារឿយៗបែបនេះ គឺជាការកសាងខ្លួនឯងឱ្យវិលទៅរកសភាពប្រសើរជាងមុន ឬរីករាយជាងមុន។ កត្តាទាំងនេះហើយដែលវាជួយឱ្យអ្នកអាចកាត់បន្ថយការគិតបែបអវិជ្ជមាន ឬក៏ដែនកំណត់នៃជំនឿមានភាពតូចចង្អៀត ដោយជំនួសមកវិញនូវការផ្តោតទៅលើភាពខ្លាំង នៃផ្នែកណាមួយនៃសមត្ថភាពរបស់អ្នក។

៤. ធ្វើឱ្យខួរក្បាលមានភាពរស់រវើក ៖ ការគិតបែបពិចារណា វាប្រៀបដូចជាការកម្តៅសាច់ដុំអញ្ចឹងដែរ ដើម្បីឱ្យខួរក្បាលកាន់តែមានការគិតបានរហ័សជាងមុន មនុស្សក៏ត្រូវការបន្សាំខ្លួនជាមួយបញ្ហាប្រឈមឱ្យបានច្រើនជាងមុន គិតឱ្យបានច្រើនជាងមុន។ ហើយមិនមានអ្វីដែលគួរឱ្យចម្លែកពេកទេដែលគេហៅអ្នកគិតបែបត្រិះរិះពិចារណាថា គឺជាប្រភេទមនុស្សដែលសកម្មជាមួយនឹងការគិត។ ហើយប្រសិនបើចង់ឱ្យកាន់តែមានសមត្ថភាពរឹងមាំបន្ថែមលើជំនាញនេះ គឺទាមទារនូវការអនុវត្តន៍ជាប្រចាំ។ មួយវិញទៀត ជំនាញនេះវាជំរុញឱ្យមានការអភិវឌ្ឍន៍នៅផ្នែកស្មារតីសំខាន់ៗផ្សេងទៀតដូចជាការគិតបែបតក្កវិជ្ជា, ការធ្វើសេចក្ដីសម្រេចចិត្ត និងបង្កើនលំហរនៃការគិត៕

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“រៀនបទរៀនបាទ កុំកោងហួសខ្នាត កុំភ្លាត់ខុសផ្លូវ កុំភ្លើនភ្លេចម៉ែ កុំប្រែហួសឪ ឃើញចាស់សក់ស្កូវ កុំសូវមើលងាយ ។ បន្ទន់អាត្មា ខ្លាចមេខ្លាចបា ខ្លាចតាខ្លាចយាយ បម្រើមហាក្សត្រ ប្រយ័ត្នស្ដេចទាយ ពាក្យពិតទំនាយ រលាយកេរ្ដិ៍ឈ្មោះ.....

គន្លឹះគ្រប់គ្រងពេល ២៤ម៉ោងផ្ទាល់ខ្លួនបានត្រឹមត្រូវ បញ្ជៀសទំនាស់និងបង្កើនគុណភាពជីវិត

បទយកការណ៍ , ព័ត៌មានជាតិ និងអន្តរជាតិ , ព័ត៌មានអន្តរជាតិ

• 15/12/2023

មនុស្សមានទំនាស់ពីរប្រភេទ គឺទំនាស់ក្នុងខ្លួន និងទំនាស់ក្រៅខ្លួន ។ ទំនាស់ក្នុងខ្លួនជាអាកប្បកិរិយាទាស់ទែងនឹងឥរិយាបថ ...

ស្នាមញញឹមមណ្ឌលសុខភាពដើមឬស

• 17/11/2023

អ្នកស្រី ទីវ ចាន់ដេត ៖ ក្តីសុបិនពិតងាយឱ្យមនុស្សឆាប់សម្រេចគោលដៅជីវិត

• 20/10/2023

មនុស្សម្នាក់ៗអាចមានគោលដៅការងារ និងគោលដៅជីវិតផ្សេងៗគ្នា ។ សម្រេចគោលដៅការងារជារឿងងាយស្រួល ...

មាតិកាលើប្រព័ន្ធបណ្តាញសង្គមជះឥទ្ធិពលដល់ការអប់រំកុមារ និងយុវជន

បទយកការណ៍ , ព័ត៌មានជាតិ និងអន្តរជាតិ

• 15/09/2023

ប្រព័ន្ធផ្សព្វផ្សាយសង្គម (Social Media) កំពុងក្លាយជាមធ្យោបាយផ្តល់និងទទួលព័ត៌មាន ព្រមទាំងផ្តល់ការកម្សាន្តដ៏ពេញនិយមនាពេលបច្ចុប្បន្ន ។ ប្រព័ន្ធផ្សព្វផ្សាយសង្គមមានសម្បូរបែប .....

ព័ត៌មានទូទៅ

ក្រសួងទេសចរណ៍ ជ្រើសរើសសិក្ខាកាមចូលរៀនជំនាញឆុងកាហ្វេ និងសេវាកម្មម្ហូបអាហារ និងភេសជ្ជៈ សម្រាប់ខេត្តបាត់ដំបង

ព័ត៌មានអាហារូបករណ៍ , ព្រឹត្តិការណ៍

• 24/08/2023

គណៈកម្មការគ្រប់គ្រងគម្រោង ហូកា នៃក្រសួងទេសចរណ៍ ក្រោមកិច្ចសហការជាមួយគម្រោង “គាំទ្រនិរន្តរភាពហេដ្ឋារចនាសម្ព័ន្ធជនបទ ដើម្បីទីផ្សារកសិករ និងពាណិជ្ជូបនីយកម្មកសិកម្មនៅកម្ពុជា (SAAMBAT)”...

ACE ផ្តល់អាហារូបករណ៍​ដល់សិស្សនិស្សិតចំនួន ៣១កន្លែង

• 25/08/2023

មជ្ឈមណ្ឌលអូស្រ្តាលី​សម្រាប់ការបណ្តុះបណ្តាល ប្រកាស​ផ្តល់អាហារូបករណ៍​ដល់​សិស្ស​និស្សិតចំនួន៣១កន្លែង ដោយ​ម្នាក់ៗ​នឹង​ទទួល​បាន​អាហារូបករណ៍​រយៈពេល​១ឆ្នាំ។

ឱកាសសិក្សាអាហារូបករណ៍ថ្នាក់បរិញ្ញាបត្រជាន់ខ្ពស់នៅសាកលវិទ្យាល័យតូក្យូ ADB ឆ្នាំសិក្សា២០២៤

• 31/07/2023

កម្មវិធីអាហារូបករណ៍ The Asian Development Bank – Japan Scholarship Program (ADB-JSP) ផ្ដល់ឱកាសសិក្សាអាហារូបករណ៍ថ្នាក់បរិញ្ញាបត្រជាន់ខ្ពស់នៅសាកល...

​ឱកាសសិក្សាអាហារូបករណ៍៧៥% នៅសាកលវិទ្យាល័យអន្តរជាតិអាល្លឺម៉ង់ ប្រទេសអាល្លឺម៉ង់ឆ្នាំ២០២៤

• 29/09/2023

ឱកាសសិក្សាអាហារូបករណ៍ថ្នាក់បរិញ្ញាបត្រ បរិញ្ញាបត្រជាន់ខ្ពស់ និងបណ្ឌិត នៅសាកលវិទ្យាល័យអន្តរជាតិនៅប្រទេសអាល្លឺម៉ង់នៃប្រទេសអាល្លឺម៉ង់ឆ្នាំសិក្សា២០២៤ ។ ......

ក្រសួងប្រៃសណីយ និងទូរគមនាគមន៍ ផ្ដល់អាហារូបករណ៍១០០% សិក្សាវគ្គខ្លីផ្នែកសន្តិសុខបច្ចេកវិទ្យា

• 07/06/2023

ក្រសួងប្រៃសណីយ និងទូរគមនាគមន៍ប្រកាសផ្ដល់អាហារូបករណ៍ ១០០% ចំនួន​៤០កន្លែងសម្រាប់ការ​សិក្សាផ្នែកសន្តិសុខបច្ចេកវិទ្យា ។ ជំនាញដែល...

ឱកាសសិក្សា​ជំនាញបច្ចេកទេស និង​វិជ្ជាជីវៈ ឥតគិតថ្លៃពីវិទ្យាស្ថានពហុបច្ចេកទេស​ខេត្តព្រះសីហនុ

• 12/12/2023

វិទ្យាស្ថានបច្ចេកទេស​ខេត្តព្រះសីហនុ បានប្រកាស​ផ្តល់​អាហារូបករណ៍ ១០០ភាគរយ សម្រាប់វគ្គសិក្សា​កម្រិតសញ្ញាបត្របច្ចេកទេស និង​វិជ្ជាជីវៈ ១ (C1) ដោយសិក្សា​រយៈពេល​៤ខែ ដោយ​ឥតគិតថ្លៃ។

ឱកាសសិក្សាថ្នាក់ស្រាវជ្រាវ១២សប្ដាហ៍ពីកម្មវិធី Mitas Globalink Research Intership 2024

ឱកាសសិក្សាថ្នាក់ស្រាវជ្រាវចំនួន១២សប្ដាហ៍ពីកម្មវីធីMitas Globalink Research Intership 2024 នៅប្រទេសកាណាដាក្នុងឆ្នាំសិក្សា២០២៤ ។ អាហារូបករណ៍ផ្ដល់ឱ្យ...

អាហារូបករណ៍ថ្នាក់បរិញ្ញាបត្រចំនួន១០កន្លែងនៅវិទ្យាស្ថានជាតិសហគ្រិនភាព និងនវានុវត្តន៍ ឆ្នាំសិក្សា២០២៣-២០២៤

• 05/12/2023

ឱកាសសិក្សាអាហារូបករណ៍ថ្នាក់បរិញ្ញាបត្រចំនួន១០កន្លែងពីកម្មវិធីអាហារូបករណ៍អភិសន្តិបណ្ឌិត ស សុខា ថ្នាក់ជាតិសម្រាប់សិស្ស-និស្សិតទូទាំងប្រទេសឱ្យសិក្សាថ្នាក់បរិញ្ញាបត្រ សិក្សា...

អាហារូបករណ៍ភាពជាអ្នកដឹកនាំអន្តរជាតិ នៅសាកលវិទ្យាល័យ Glasgow នៃចក្រភពអង់គ្លេស

• 21/08/2023

ឱកាសសិក្សាអាហារូបករណ៍ថ្នាក់បរិញ្ញាបត្រជាន់ខ្ពស់នៅសាកលវិទ្យាល័យGlasgow នៃកម្មវិធីអាហារូបករណ៍ភាពជាអ្នកដឹកនាំអន្តរជាតិឆ្នាំសិក្សា២០២៣-២០២៤ ...

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• មើលទាំងអស់ ➧

ជំនាញ វិស្វកម្មលោហ:

ជំនាញ វិស្វកម្មសំណង់ស៊ីវិល

ជំនាញ គ្រូបង្វឹកហែលទឹក

ជំនាញវិស្វកម្មមេកាត្រូនិក

ជំនាញព័ត៌មានវិទ្យា

ជំនាញ ផលិតភេសជ្ជ:

ជំនាញផ្សារលោហ:

ជំនាញ វិស្វកម្មរថយន្ដ

ជំនាញ របាំបុរាណ

ជំនាញ វិស្វកម្មមេកានិក

ធ្នើដាក់សៀវភៅកើតឡើងយ៉ាងដូចម្ដេច?

ជំនាញ អក្សរសាស្រ្ដបារាំង

ប្រវត្តិរបស់ទូកកាណូ

ព័ត៌មានសង្ខេប

• ប្រភេទវីដេអូ (VIDEO)

កម្ពុជានឹងរៀបចំការប្រកួតសរសេរតាមអានជាសាធារណៈលើកដំបូង នៅប្រាសាទអង្គរវត្ត

TVET ជាមធ្យោបាយជួយយុវជនចាប់យកឱកាសការងារឆាប់រហ័ស និងជាស្ពានផ្តល់ឱកាស «សិក្សាពេញមួយជីវិត»

៥គន្លឹះដើម្បីជំរុញការផ្ចង់អារម្មណ៍ និងបង្កើនថាមពលដោយវិធីសាមញ្ញៗ

ផែនការជីវិតជួយឱ្យលោក Michael Dell ក្លាយជាម្ចាស់ក្រុមហ៊ុនបច្ចេកវិទ្យាឆ្នើមរបស់ពិភពលោក

៥ គន្លឹះដើម្បីគ្រប់គ្រងស្រ្តេស

តើយុវជនគួរមានជំនាញមូលដ្ឋានអ្វីខ្លះ ដើម្បីរស់នៅក្នុងសង្គមសម័យទំនើបដោយមានទំនុកចិត្ត ?

លោកជំទាវ គឹម រ័ត្ននា ៖ ការបំបៅកូនដោយទឹកដោះម្តាយ គឺជាអាហារដ៏ល្អបំផុតសម្រាប់ទារកទើបនឹងកើត

ជប៉ុនជាប្រទេសអភិវឌ្ឍន៍ឧស្សាហកម្មមនុស្សនិមិ្មតខ្លាំងជាងគេក្នុងពិភពលោក

ក្រសួងប្រៃសណីយ៍ និងទូរគមនាគមន៍ លើកទឹកចិត្តសិស្សានុសិស្សចាប់យកជំនាញបច្ចេកវិទ្យាឌីជីថល

តើយុវជនត្រូវត្រៀមខ្លួនបែបណា ដើម្បីចាប់យកឱកាសការងារក្នុងសម័យឌីជីថលនេះ?

ធាតុផ្សំសំខាន់ៗ ៤ សម្រាប់កសាងមូលដ្ឋានគ្រឹះហិរញ្ញវត្ថុសម្រាប់អនាគត

ជំងឺស្ត្រូកអាចបណ្តាលមកពីមនុស្សមានទម្លាប់ក្រគេង ឬពន្យារពេលគេងជ្រុលខ្លាំងពេក

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ឯកឧត្តម ហ៊ីង ស៊ីដេត ៖ សិស្សរៀន TVET មានអត្រាទទួលបានការងារខ្ពស់ ក្រោយបញ្ចប់​ការ​សិក្សា

កម្ពុជា-កូរ៉េ បញ្ជាក់រួមគ្នាពីសារសំខាន់ នៃការ​អភិវឌ្ឍមនុស្សជំនាន់ក្រោយ ដោយ​បំពាក់ជំនាញឧស្សាហកម្ម និង​ឌីជីថល

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មណ្ឌលសុខភាពចំនួន៨ក្នុងខេត្តសៀមរាប ត្រូវចាត់ទុកជាមណ្ឌលសុខភាពគំរូ​ក្នុងការ​អនុវត្តវិធីសាស្រ្តបង្កើនអត្រាបំបៅកូនដោយទឹកដោះម្តាយ

បណ្តាញ​សាកលវិទ្យាល័យ​សាយប័រកម្ពុជា នឹង​រួមចំណែក​កាត់បន្ថយ​គម្លាត​រវាងសាកលវិទ្យាល័យនៅរាជធានី និង​សាកលវិទ្យាល័យនៅបណ្តាខេត្ត

យុទ្ធនាការកាត់បន្ថយថង់ប្លាស្ទិក ១ថ្ងៃ​កម្ពុជា​កាត់បន្ថយ​ការ​ប្រើថង់ប្លាស្ទិក​ជាង៣០លានថង់

២០២៤ សាកលវិទ្យាល័យចិនបន្តឈរជាស្ថាប័នអប់រំកំពូលនៅអាស៊ី ខណៈសាកលវិទ្យាល័យនៅអាស៊ានឡើងចំណាត់ថ្នាក់យ៉ាងឆាប់រហ័ស

ការសិក្សា ៖ កត្តា ៤ ដែលមានឥទ្ធិពលលើសេចក្ដីសុខរបស់មនុស្សជំនាន់ហ្ស៊ី (Gen Z)

ទិវាភពផែនដី ៖ លើកកម្ពស់ចំណេះដឹងបរិស្ថាន និងរស់នៅដោយនិរន្តរភាព

WE Forum បង្ហាញគំនិតគោលនយោបាយមូលដ្ឋាន សម្រាប់ការប្រើប្រាស់ AI ក្នុងវិស័យអប់រំ និងត្រៀមខ្លួនសម្រាប់អនាគត

ការស្រាវជ្រាវ ៖ ការបង្កើតវគ្គសិក្សាកម្រិតឧត្តមសម្រាប់មនុស្សគ្រប់វ័យ អាចពង្រឹងសុខុមាលភាពមនុស្សចាស់

រៀនពីរបៀបរស់នៅវិជ្ជមាន ជួយឱ្យយុវជនបង្កើនសុភមង្គល​ និងសុខភាពផ្លូវចិត្តល្អ

គន្លឹះទាំង៧ ជំរុញភាពស្វាហាប់និងបង្កើនទំនាក់ទំនងរបស់បុគ្គលិកនៅកន្លែងការងារ

មើលភាពយន្តបរទេស អាចជួយពង្រឹងសមត្ថភាពរៀនភាសាអង់គ្លេស

សិក្សាសិល្បៈដើម្បីបង្កើតជាជំនាញ ស្មើនឹងជួយពង្រឹងអត្តសញ្ញាណ និងវប្បធម៌ខ្មែរ

វិទ្យាសាស្ត្រទិន្នន័យ និងបញ្ញាសិប្បនិម្មិត ជាជំនាញមានតម្រូវការខ្ពស់ និងអាចប្រើបានគ្រប់វិស័យ

ការរីកចម្រើនបច្ចេកវិទ្យា និងបញ្ហាសេដ្ឋកិច្ចពិភពលោក ជំរុញឱ្យ​បុគ្គលិកពង្រឹងជំនាញ ឬរៀនជំនាញថ្មី

អង្គការអន្តរជាតិធំៗ អំពាវនាវឱ្យធ្វើកំណែទម្រង់ និងកែលម្អការបណ្ដុះបណ្ដាលជំនាញបច្ចេកទេស និងវិជ្ជាជីវៈ (TVET) ក្នុងប្រទេសកំពុងអភិវឌ្ឍ

ការងារដែលរ៉ូបូតពិបាកនឹងជំនួសមនុស្ស​ក្នុងពេល២០ឆ្នាំខាងមុខ

យុវជនជាតិដើមភាគតិច បង្ហាញក្តីរំពឹងបើកអាជីវកម្ម បន្ទាប់ពីរៀនជំនាញវិជ្ជាជីវៈ

យុវជន ថាវ កិត្យានុគុណ ៖ ស្ម័គ្រចិត្តក្នុងព្រឹត្តិការណ៍ស៊ីហ្គេម ព្រោះចង់ចូលរួមចំណែកធ្វើឱ្យបរទេសស្គាល់កម្ពុជា

លោក ពេជ្យ មូន ៖ ទោះធ្វើការខុសជំនាញដែលរៀននៅសាកលវិទ្យាល័យ ប៉ុន្តែចំណេះនោះអាចប្រើជាចំណែកពេលធ្វើ​ការងារ

យុវជនមួយក្រុមបង្ហាញគំនិតច្នៃប្រតិដ្ឋបង្កើតប្រព័ន្ធប្រព្រឹត្តកម្មទឹកកខ្វក់ ដែលចំណាយតិច​ជួយកាត់បន្ថយផលប៉ះពាល់បរិស្ថាន និងអាចប្រើប្រាស់ទឹកឡើងវិញសម្រាប់កសិកម្ម

យូនីសេហ្វ ណែនាំគន្លឹះមួយចំនួនដល់ឪពុកម្តាយដើម្បីរក្សាសុវត្ថិភាពកូនៗក្នុងអំឡុងពេលធាតុអាកាសក្តៅ

ភាពខុសគ្នារវាងការឱ្យកុមាររៀនតាមវីដេអូ និងកុមារអានសៀវភៅ ដើម្បីជំរុញឱ្យការសិក្សាប្រសើរ

សកម្មភាពសប្បាយៗចំនួន៥ ជួយពង្រឹងការយល់ដឹងរបស់កុមារ

កំហុសចំនួន ៧ ដែលម្ដាយឪពុកធ្វើ អាចប៉ះពាល់ដល់ការពង្រឹងផ្លូវចិត្តរបស់កូន

៣ចំណុចឪពុកម្ដាយអាចជួយកូនឱ្យបន្តស្រឡាញ់ការអានសៀវភៅ

ជំនាញជីវិតទាំង១០ ដែលឪពុកម្តាយ​គួរ​បង្រៀនកូន​នៅឆ្នាំ២០២៣

ឱកាសសិក្សាជំនាញវិជ្ជាជីវៈឥតគិតថ្លៃនៅវិទ្យាស្ថានជាតិសហគ្រិន និងនវានុវត្តន៍

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21st Century Skills in the Case Critical Thinking in the Higher Education in Cambodia.pdf

In this research project has looked deeply down into the ground of twenty first century skills: a case study in Cambodian teacher and student’s perspectives about critical thinking in higher education. In this sense, this research project aims at projecting a full image of the critical thinking into four angles such as (1) based on the teacher and student’s perspectives what critical thinking is, (2) the significance of studying this subject, (3) the challenges of teaching and studying it, and (4) the practical methods on how to make students learn it better. Mixed method should be an ideal for utilizing as a tool to conduct this research finding due to two main reasons. First, we are planning to conduct semi-structured interview with three expertise who work in the best Cambodian university in order to absorb knowledge and their perspectives regarding the critical thinking in higher education within four angles. Second, as to digest our understanding about critical thinking from the students’ perspectives, we decided to do a survey which involves 100 university students as our participants. Moreover, in the sampling selecting techniques, fishbowl technique is employed by writing down all the well-known universities’ names and putting them into a bowl, so we randomly selected one university. Then, we continued to selecting which departments, and generation. By so doing, we could make our research validity and credibility. Because the wide range experiences of three lecturers and the purposive and responsive students, we are able to fully understand about the critical thinking in the Cambodian university within four angles. Finally, we find that critical thinking skills is not just an ability to make human think critically and logically in dealing with issues relating to their study, but it also helps them see issues in the different perspectives and sides with rational thinking by absorbing this knowledge from the outside environment.

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Building Critical Thinking In Emerging Leaders

Building critical thinking skills among education emerging leaders is an important aspect of improving education systems in Cambodia. This project aims to enhance the ability of education leaders to analyze complex problems, make informed decisions, and implement effective solutions.

This project builds on the previous “Know and Growth project” implemented from July 2015 to August 2021 to apply a stronger focus on critical thinking skills.

One of the key challenges facing 21st-century teaching is the rapidly changing technological landscape.  There is a growing emphasis on developing 21st-century skills such as critical thinking, creativity, and collaboration. These skills are essential for success in the modern workforce, but they can be difficult to teach and assess. Additionally, there is a need for education leaders to be able to navigate the complex policy environment and make informed decisions about resource allocation and program implementation.

To address these challenges, the project will provide education leaders with training and support in critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making. This action learning leadership program includes workshops, seminars, and other training opportunities that focus on developing critical thinking skills and applying them to real-world challenges.

The project will also involve collaboration with stakeholders in the education system, including education officials, school principals, teachers, students, parents, and community leaders. By bringing together these diverse perspectives, education leaders can gain a better understanding of the challenges facing the education system and develop more effective solutions.

Through these efforts, the project aims to improve the quality of education in Cambodia by building the capacity of education leaders to make informed decisions and implement effective solutions. By strengthening the critical thinking skills of education leaders, the project can help ensure that schools have the resources and support they need to provide high-quality education to students.

• Build a cohort of education leaders at the national and subnational levels that have enhanced skills and are able to act as 21st century leaders with a strong focus on critical thinking as a core, foundation skill.
• As a result of more developed 21st century skills, education leaders are better able to support schools to implement effective ASRH and STEM programs.

Key activities:

• Establishment of the Ministry’s Project Advisory Group (PAG).
• Development of the Action Learning Leadership Program includes (consultations with the Ministry at national level, ideation workshop and selection of program participants).
• Implementation of the Action Learning Leadership Program which includes the develop of individual leadership, team problem-solving skills applying interactive, and hands-on approaches.
• Implementation of school level sex education and science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) education projects including follow up and coaching.
• International Exchange Program.

“Together, we can make a change in our society”

Ms Yim Theary has been teaching at Borkeo Lower Secondary school in Borkeo District, Ratanak Kiri Province for almost 10 years and was recently appointed vice principal; she is also the technical team leader for science subjects.

I applied for the emerging leader group to develop my career and become a better teacher. I have since received two days of Gender training where they used the Gender and Social Analysis and Action (SAA) tool together with twenty participants from Ratanak Kiri and Mondul Kiri provinces. We are happy that we were selected to join this training. 

During the training, we had a lot of discussion, and we had a chance to reflect on the current social norms at our school. It has helped me to think more critically in identifying and analyzing typical roles, behaviors, and norms that are expected of men and women in the community. I can now see how there is a lack of representation of girls at school activities, and how girls and boys interact in and outside the classroom.  

The training helped me to understand and reflect on my team’s perception of gender roles in different spaces such as at home, school and in the community. We now recognize how social problems are gender-related. We are committed to coach more teachers so that together we can bring change in our society. 

Cambodia Leadership Skills

Individual family community nation world បចេ្ចកបុគ្គល គ្រួសារ សហគមន៍ ជាតិ ពិភពលោក.

Mind is the Leader, Mind is the Source of Good and Evil "All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become" - Lord Buddha

Leadership is about Empowering Children Just little thing, all Cambodians should consider to practice, please teach your kids or others the best things as you are the actors of role model.

The Conflict of Generations of Cambodia Leadership In Cambodia, those post-baby boomers are known for their conceptualization on the Politics of the United Nations, Human Rights, Democracy, Free and Fair Election, and Freedom. They have lived through time of political reconciliation, non-violence, culture of dialogue, democratic elections, economic liberalization, social injustice, social gap, minimum wage and jobs seeking, and contesting leadership of two party state of Cambodia. They were not divided by monarchy and anti-monarchy, political violence of systematic atrocity and revenge, but experienced the Vietnamese military presence in Cambodia. They are not xenophobic, paranoiac, or irrational in general. They are more into conflict resolution than conflict revolution.

Leadership skills that fit your traits There are many leadership skills and competencies that, when combined and applied, go toward making you an effective leader. You have the ability to develop each of these skills within yourself. Read on for specific ideas on how you can improve your leadership skills!

Change Yourself - Good Luck LEADERSHIP is for everyone. Leadership is not solely accountable for King, President, Prime Minister, CEO or school superintendent etc. Individual requires effective leadership to handle with all his or her daily activities. Buddha said “no one save us, but ourselves; we are our own savior” is the indicator of important leadership starting from ourselves. As a member of family, one needs to manage their family’s well-being effectively. As a member of neighborhood and community, one must nurture their network and relationship effectively. As a member of a nation, one must stand up to safeguard the collective interest of the nation with courageous, striving and perpetual commitment. Nation means ourselves! As a member of the globe, one must step beyond their frontier to challenge with the world changes. Most mornings we turn a door-handle and walk out into a larger world. We move across our world, at least across a tiny section of it. This is the society of which we are part.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower Steve Jobs advised that potential leadership stems from potential innovation. If one has no innovation, he or she would be a follower, not a leader. For Ralph Nader, he repeated that “I start with the promise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers”. David Gergen deepened into a tangible theme that “What they must have are: inner mastery; a central, compelling purpose rooted in moral values; a capacity to persuade; skills in working within the system; a fast start; a strong, effective team; and a passion that inspires others to keep the flame alive.”

Leadership in Education Citizenship in learning: Exercises democratic rights and responsibilities within the learning community, -Demonstrates respect and appreciation for diversity, -Works and communicates effectively with others. Personal Development through learning: Sets and works towards learning goals, -Demonstrates confidence and autonomy in learning. Character in learning: Engages in learning with initiative, persistence and integrity, -Treats others with respect and compassion, - Makes responsible decisions.

Working as team to solve conflicts in working places I am more inclining to task-focused than people-oriented. I believe in tidiness, compliant, well organized, set-policy and punctual. But I might miss parts of sense of humor, people sensitivity and social outgoing etc. To handle both conflicts, I was ready on positive emotion, integrity, understanding the internal regulations as well as code of conduct, pre-destining the consequences and laying down appropriate assertiveness. It is essential to comprehend on good paper theory and actual onsite operation; they are two contradictorily items in which require wisdom, experiences and flexibility to attain it. Conflicts are happening every moment of livelihood. Workplace is one of the frequent sites to be bombarded by differences and conflicts.

Modern definition of the state and failed state in political leadership Those scholars argue that if a state failed to implement good governance, effective bureaucracy, judicial independence, social justice, people’s freedom, social equity and the enforcement of the rule of laws, the outcome of political leadership of those states shall prevail in the manner of “failed state” or “predatory state”. It means the powerful or the top leader has gained nothing beneficial under their “leadership” to build the nation of the future. He/she has gained only for personal interest and family clan. Buddha said that such leader has been deceived by greed លោភះ and ignorance អវិជ្ជា.

Theories of Political Leadership Oksenburg, who was specialist in China and former president of East West Center, laid out some idealistic formulations on leaders and leadership that include: A lot of lust for power Absolute ruthlessness Vision Many followers

Self-Cultivation to be an Effective Leader Self and relationship with nature according well-known scholars Both Mechanical Universe of Isaac Newton and Quantum Mechanics of Albert Einstein have clarified that self or individual is very essential to respond to the whole society, world and universe under a certain natural law which called original interdependent or inner relativism. Buddha is the first researcher who found this theory and taught everybody about this inner relation and pointed out the way of middle path, self-savior and enlightenment.

Critical Thinking is an Essential Source of Leadership An effective critical thinker: consider all relevant evidence develops criteria for making reasoned judgments make judgments on the basis of these criteria works on developing the character traits, or habits of mind that promote effective decision making You make choices every day — at school, at home, with friends, and at work. You may, for example, need to decide wheter to join an after-school activity, whether to support a friend in school elections, or how to plan your courses for the year. Using criteria to guide your decisions will help you succeed in school. But the benefits of using criteria to guide your decisions go wel beyond the social studies classroom. Developing effective criteria will ensure that you make the most effective choices when faced with challenges in all aspects of your life.

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Universities Fail at Critical Thinking: Student Advocate

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Cambodia’s higher education system has failed to address a lack of critical-thinking and problem-solving curricula among university students, a youth advocate told “Hello VOA” on Monday.

Instead, says Cheang Sokha, head of the Youth Resource Development Program, “student-centered” approaches exist on paper only within higher education.

“The quality of education in these skills is still very limited,” Cheang Sokha said.

“If we want to see a society’s fate, we look at how young people’s education is invested in,” he said. “Now look at the way our current education system invests in young people. How can we hope that our society will have a good fate?”

The Youth Resource Development Program hopes to improve that, he said, and has trained around 2,000 university students since 1999 to make them better thinkers and more attractive in the job market.

“Employers put more value on people with high critical-thinking and analytical problem-solving skills,” he said.

More than that, said one caller, Sun Thun, the education system has also failed to instill the proper sense of patriotism, democracy and respect for human rights.

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How to Improve Critical Thinking in the Workplace

Employers want critical thinkers — those with sound judgment who can evaluate and analyze issues, make decisions, and overcome obstacles. Hiring managers are looking for people who can think critically and resolve issues quickly and effectively.

The National Association of Colleges and Employers ( NACE ) lists critical thinking as one of the eight career readiness competencies that demonstrate a recent college graduate has been educated for success in the workplace. Career readiness is “key to ensuring successful entrance into the workforce,” NACE reports.

Employers have not been shy about the lack of critical thinking skills in the workforce.

According to a 2023 ZipRecruiter skills hiring report , for which more than 2,000 U.S. employers were surveyed, the top three skills employers say candidates are “most lacking in” are:

• Time management
• Professionalism
• Critical thinking

In addition, the global management consulting firm McKinsey and Company projects that the demand for skills such as critical thinking and decision-making will grow by 19% in the U.S. and by 14% in Europe through 2030.

Critical thinkers, where are you? Hone your critical thinking skills, and become an indispensable member of your team with these five steps.

1. Formulate Your Questions

First thing to do: Identify the problem and the questions you need to ask. When you ask smart questions from the beginning, you can get a clearer picture of the issues involved. Questions to ask during this stage include:

• What’s happening?
• Why is this happening?
• What is most concerning about X?
• What is holding people back from solving X?
• What is the desired outcome?

2. Gather Information

Now it’s time to perform research. Depending on the nature of your problem, you may need to interview people, gather data and statistics, get historical project information, etc.

Make sure to get diverse input, too. It’s natural to want to talk with like-minded people, but this does nothing to help you get diverse perspectives and potential solutions.

In the research phase, consider asking stakeholders:

• How would you solve the problem?
• What other ways have you tried so far?
• What do you need to happen for this problem to be solved?
• Is there anything we haven’t discussed that you need me to know?

Don’t be afraid to ask for clarity. If someone you’re interviewing says something you’re not familiar with, ask them to tell you more about it. How does it fit into the problem or solution?

Aim to ask open-ended yet short questions. “How can I better understand this issue?” and “What if we tried a new approach?” can help others frame and communicate their own hypotheses.

3. Question Your Assumptions

Critical thinking depends on objectivity. You just collected a slew of facts in step two; now it’s time to vet your information.

If it’s from an online source, make sure the site is reputable and trustworthy. What’s their motive in sharing this information? Is the information complete and current? Are they trying to get you to take action (for example, send money or vote for them)?

Look for evidence that the source itself received diverse input. Ask if someone’s voice is missing in the presentation of the facts.

Finally, as you move to step four to apply the information, keep this question in mind: “Am I making any assumptions about this information?” Decisions need facts, not assumptions, to support them.

4. Apply the Information to Identify the Best Solution

Ask yourself this at the start of this step: “Are there any viewpoints I missed?” If all stakeholders have had an equal voice, you’re good to proceed. At this stage, you will use reason and logic to synthesize your information and arrive at the best solution. Questions to consider include:

• Are there other factors I haven’t considered?
• Have I evaluated the information from every perspective?
• Are my conclusions supported by sufficient evidence?

After completing the due diligence outlined above, you are ready to form your own opinion about the problem and devise a solution — or, solutions. There may be more than one, so plan to present them all.

5. Communicate and Evaluate Your Solution

Now you will share your findings with the stakeholders, such as your manager, executives, coworkers, and anybody else who should be involved.

After you’ve implemented your solution, evaluate whether it was effective. Did it solve the initial problem? What lessons can you take from this experience? How will you improve your critical thinking for next time?

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• How Can Solving Sudoku and Wordle Enhance Your Critical Thinking Skills?

Today on the Salesforce Admins Podcast, we talk to Rangsk, a Wordle and Sudoku YouTuber. Join us as we chat about critical thinking, problem-solving, and why puzzles are a great way to practice and improve your thinking.

You should subscribe for the full episode, but here are a few takeaways from our conversation with Rangsk.

Who is Rangsk?

I’m a big word puzzle fan. Sudoku, Wordle, Connections, I love ’em all! I think they’re a great way to warm up your brain and stay sharp. That’s why I was so excited to sit down with this week’s guest, Rangsk. His YouTube and TikTok videos have helped me become a better puzzle solver, and I wanted to bring him on the pod to talk through his unique approach.

Rangsk first got into puzzle solving via a recommended video on YouTube for Cracking the Cryptic. He fell down the rabbit hole and became obsessed with the logic game that happens behind the numbers. He created his own sudokus and started posting walkthrough videos of how he made them and how to solve them.

Rangsk’s channel has grown exponentially since then. The thing that sticks out to me about his content is the tone: he’s positive, gentle, and clear. He really helps you become a better critical thinker, and have some fun along the way.

Word games are logic puzzles

“I approach word games as if they were logic puzzles,” Rangsk says. “You’re given information and you want to come up with the best possible guess to utilize that information and get as much information as you can.”

Some feedback Rangsk often gets about his solves is that he’s “overthinking it.” For him, that misses the point of doing these sorts of puzzles in the first place. Yes, you can brute force a sudoku or get a lucky guess on a Wordle. But what do you learn from that?

As Rangsk puts it, “it’s a single player game, there are no stakes to it. The only person you’re cheating is yourself.”

Practice your critical thinking skills

Instead, Rangsk recommends using puzzles as a low-stakes opportunity to practice thinking through things logically. It’s an opportunity to build up your critical thinking skills for when there’s more on the line than beating your high score.

At the end of the day, it’s all about learning. Whether you solve a puzzle or get stuck halfway through, Rangsk encourages you take a close look at your thought process and learn from it. Why did you solve it? Why did you get stuck? It’s the chance to learn about yourself and how you think through things that makes these puzzles worthwhile.

Listen to the full episode for more from Rangsk on when it’s OK to hit the hint button, and some other word puzzles you might like if you’re already hooked on Wordle. And don’t forget to subscribe to hear more from the Salesforce Admins Podcast.

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Mike Gerholdt: Wordle, Strands, Connections, not just random words, but word games. And I am addicted to them. So, this week on the Salesforce Admins Podcast, I had to get arguably the best word and logic solver I can find from TikTok and YouTube on the podcast. He goes by Rangsk on TikTok, and I’ll put a link below.

But David and I are talking about critical thinking and problem-solving using word games. Also, just how that applies to life. This is a phenomenal conversation. Don’t be scared about the time because this is such a fun discussion. Also, how looking for answers and the journey of problem solving really applies to just everything that we do, not only as Salesforce admins, but in our learning journeys and as we navigate life.

So, this is fun. Let’s get David on the podcast. So, David, welcome to the podcast.

Rangsk: Well, thank you.

Mike Gerholdt: I’m glad to have you on. I feel this is one of those times where I’m way more the super fanboy because I have seen a ton of your TikTok videos and your New York Times solves. But without tipping too much, how did you get into word gaming and solving word games online?

Rangsk: Well, it’s a long story, but I can give the short version. Basically, YouTube likes to give random recommendations, and one day it recommended me a Sudoku video by Cracking the Cryptic. And I was familiar with Sudoku because it was a huge craze in the early 2000s. Do you remember that?

Mike Gerholdt: Oh, yeah. Absolutely.

Rangsk: Everyone was doing Sudoku.

Mike Gerholdt: On the planes, there were books. Every airport had a Sudoku book.

Rangsk: Yeah. And so, I got into that craze back then, but then I burned out of it. And now, I realize it’s because of the way I was solving it. It’s because of the way everyone was solving it, it burned out quickly. But I was like, “You know what? Sudoku, I’m familiar with that.” I clicked the video and I just immediately got hooked because this was not the Sudoku that I used to do.

And I just really got hooked on watching Cracking the Cryptic on YouTube and the various different kinds of logic puzzles that they solve. And then, I actually started creating my own Sudoku puzzles. I crafted them myself. And I would do things like… I would submit them to Cracking the Cryptic. They actually have solved a few of my puzzles in the past.

Mike Gerholdt: Wow.

Rangsk: Featured in front of tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people, which is great. And what I wanted to do is I wanted to document how I intended those puzzles to be solved and walk through the logic of them. Because I’ve always been… I had sort of an instructor mindset. I’ve always liked teaching. I’ve never been a teacher, but I’ve always liked teaching anyway.

And so, I decided to make my own videos where I walked through how to solve my own puzzles and I just uploaded them to my YouTube channel, which had nothing otherwise. And one day, Cracking the Cryptic featured one of my puzzles, and I commented saying, “Hey, I’ve got a walkthrough solve of this on my channel if anyone’s interested.” And I instantly gained 200, 300 subscribers.

Mike Gerholdt: Oh, wow.

Rangsk: And at that point, I was like, “Well, I better start making content.” So, I decided, “Hey, maybe I’ll start solving Sudoku’s on there, not just my own, and see if I can grow that audience.” And I was really enjoying the feedback I was getting from that. Flash forward to Wordle becoming popular, I was very much entrenched at that point within the logic puzzle community.

And Wordle, of course, really became popular within that community. And so, I decided, “Well, I’m already making Sudoku content. Why don’t I make YouTube shorts where I solve Wordle?” And so, that’s really where I get started on that. And then, I went from… it had taken me two years to reach a thousand subscribers where I could finally monetize on YouTube. And then, within two months, my Wordle shorts had brought me to 10,000 subscribers.

Rangsk: And so, that was like, wow, Wordle’s my thing, I guess. And so, I decided just to… in addition to my Sudoku content, I started making word game content as well.

Mike Gerholdt: Yeah, I definitely was on the sideline for the Wordle wave. I remember it kind of crashing through. And I feel like for me, it was, “Oh, everybody’s playing it, so I’m not going to play it.” I also was afraid that I would never get a word. “Oh, man.” Because my Facebook feed was filled with all of the little Wordle squares that everybody would post. I’m like, “Oh, I know so-and-so.”

I know some book editors and I know some people that are in the education space, and they were struggling with Wordle. And I was like, “I have no shot. Maybe I just shouldn’t play this.” But now that I’ve played it, I confess, today is my 40th day playing Wordle.

Rangsk: Okay. I hope you’re enjoying it.

Mike Gerholdt: I am. I also have come now to the realization that I will never get it in one word. So, I have purposely looked ahead to see what words haven’t been used as solutions, and then picked my beginning word now pending, the solution hasn’t happened. My beginning word now is spoil because it has two vowels in it and it hasn’t been used as a solution.

Rangsk: Got you. Yeah. So, for me, getting word in one, of course, it would be exciting, but I would also feel a bit cheated because I didn’t get to play that day.

Mike Gerholdt: Yes.

Rangsk: And to me, Wordle… I’m very much a logic puzzle guy. I approach even word games as if they were logic puzzles. And I think that’s why I like Wordle so much is because you can treat it like a logic puzzle, where you’re given information and then you want to come up with the best possible guess to utilize that information and get as much information as you can more.

And you think about patterns in the words, not just, “Here’s all the words I know,” but “Okay, E likes to be at the end. R likes to be second. These letters like to be near each other. These letters don’t like to be near each other.” And so, you can kind of think about the patterns that you notice within words. And of course, every once in a while, you get tripped up by a weird word that comes from French or something and doesn’t follow any of the rules.

But even then, you get there by logically eliminating, it’s not a regular word. So, I now have to investigate, is it one of those weird esoteric ones that came from French, for example, or came from a different language? So, yeah, I like to approach it as a logic problem, and I think that’s why people enjoy watching me solve it. I constantly get feedback, “I’m better at the game after watching you play it.”

That warms my heart. That’s exactly what I want. I’m not out here trying to impress people. I’m not trying to be a magician. I’m trying to be an instructor, and I’m trying to get people to understand that these games can be approached from a logical perspective. You can learn to get better at it without just going and memorizing a bunch of words.

Mike Gerholdt: Right. Perfect segue to exactly why I’m having you on the podcast, because I ran across one of your TikTok videos on Connections, and I’d never played Connections. And the tone and the manner, now that you say instructor, I joked with a colleague that I called you the Bob Ross of Connections. But your tone was very calming.

“And let’s work through this, and here’s all the words. We have to come up with four groups of four. Let me walk you through the way I’m going to think through this,” which your logic or your critical thinking. And it wasn’t just, “Well, these four have to go together. Why don’t those go together?” And it’s like, “No, but let’s think about every possible meaning of this one word.”

Or I love when you, especially on some of the Connections, “What is the, not weirdest, but what is the farthest outlying word? And let’s pick that and see how it can connect to other things.”

Rangsk: Yeah, I’m glad you recognized both my logical approach, but also the demeanor that I try to give to my content. I’ve been called Bob Ross by more than just yourself, also Mr. Rogers. Just having that calming presence is really important to me because people have so much going on in their lives. They have stress coming from everywhere, and then they try to escape that with the free time that they have.

They’re scrolling TikTok or they’re scrolling YouTube or whatever it is. And when you do that, you’re just getting people yelling at you. You’re getting people trying to make you afraid, trying to make you angry. And I want to counter that. I want to be a place where I come up on your feed and you feel like, “Okay, this is a setting where I can understand what’s going on. I’m not being yelled at.”

“Things are calm, things are straightforward and I’m learning, but I don’t feel like I’m being talked at.” I don’t know the best way to put that.

Mike Gerholdt: Or chastise. I mean really, because I think that’s one thing, how this kind of carries over to software is critical thinking, but also when you’re building applications or you’re building programs, it’s change that you’re going to introduce to somebody. And I’ve always told people, when you roll out something, nobody wants to show up to work and feel stupid.

And the easiest way to feel stupid is by showing them something they don’t understand. And you can walk into some of these games and be like, “I don’t understand. It doesn’t make sense.” And then, it makes you feel stupid when actually if you just sit and look at it.

To me, I use a few of these games in the morning when I have a cup of coffee to kind of warm my brain up, kind of get me thinking through the day and sitting there thinking, “Okay,” so this word for example, and maybe Connections is coat. Okay. So, coat and I started, “Well, how would David describe this?” Well, coat could be a jacket. Coat could be a heavy coat.

Coat could also, you coat something with paint. I try to use some of the stuff that you teach to like, how would I talk through this and not just take it as the first thing that comes to mind?

Rangsk: Right. And I get a lot of feedback, which I honestly don’t appreciate very much because it’s counter to what I’m trying to put across, which means I’m not communicating that effectively enough. But a lot of feedback is like “You’re overthinking it. If you’d just gone with your instinct, it would’ve been correct.” And they’re ignoring all the times, probably the majority of the times, where had I gone with my instinct, it would’ve been wrong.

Because these puzzles are designed to trick you. They are logic puzzles. And it’s not much of a puzzle if it’s just find four things that go together and that will be right. And so, the game is all about… I just made a comment today where someone was like, “Overthinking the easy ones is detrimental, but overthinking the hard ones is actually useful.”

And my response to that was, “Well, overthinking has a negative connotation to it, by definition. All I’m doing is thinking. And there’s nothing wrong with thinking when you’re solving a puzzle.” So, yeah, the game is trying to get you to think. And you can either let it get you to think and follow along with the human creator of this puzzle and what they were trying to achieve in getting you to think about, or you can bash your head against it and try to get lucky, which to me isn’t fun.

And sometimes I have to resort to that and I feel bad about it. But most of the time, I try to logically approach the problem and also try to see what did the creator of this puzzle intend me to think about? And that’s going to be fun and that’s going to give longevity to the gameplay.

Mike Gerholdt: Overthinking also comes from a position of I know the answer and you don’t. At one point, they didn’t know the answer. So, how can I overthink something if I don’t know the answer? In hindsight, yes, I can look back at a solution, “Oh, I way overthought that. But I only know that because I went down that path and then I came back.”

Much like thinking through different situations or different, we talked about software debugging before I pressed record. Can you overthink software debugging? Well, yeah, I suppose. But you only know that once you go down that entire path and then come back.

Rangsk: And I will say there’s kind of a corollary to that where you said in hindsight, and I think that’s another aspect of my content that you don’t see a lot, and I think it’s a really important aspect, which is after I’ve solved it, go and do a post-mortem basically, to use the industry term. Go and look back and say, “What is it that I did right? What is it that I did wrong?”

“How could I have thought about this differently to have succeeded when I failed? Or why did I succeed at this? What did I do that I liked that I should try to do more of?” And I think that’s a really important aspect of after you’ve solved a puzzle, or if you’re working on debugging software, if you’re working on any problem that you’re trying to solve, don’t just say, “Oh, I solved it. Let me throw that out.”

You say, “I solved it. Let me now internalize what worked and didn’t work so that when I have a problem again in the future, I can utilize that and gain wisdom and gain experience.”

Mike Gerholdt: I’ll be honest, one of the coolest things, I’ll get off Connections. One of the coolest things that you added to your Wordle solutions is you go into a website that somebody create a bot and you kind of, “Okay, so here’s the word I put in and we got orange, yellow, and green here. What is the bot say is the next one? What did I guess? Here’s what I guessed. Here’s this, that. Here’s what I guessed. Okay.”

And oftentimes you’re either… it helps you do that post-mortem because with Connections, you have a little bit different, you can see your categories, but with Wordle, you’re like, “Was this the next best thing for me to guess to try and get to the solution?” And I love that you kind of walk through that with that bot and the bot’s like, “Oh, yeah, so you basically had two choices after this word and you went to this one, which no harm, no foul, it was the other word.” I need that bot for everything.

Rangsk: Yeah. And what’s nice about Wordle is a bot like that can exist because it’s pretty easy to write a perfect solver. I wouldn’t say it’s easy, but it’s viable to write a perfect solver for Wordle. And there’s not a perfect solver for every problem you’re going to encounter, but you can at least go back and analyze that.

And I think an aspect that I thought about while you were describing what I do with that Wordle bot that I’d like to touch on is the question is, did I get lucky? Because a lot of times in problem-solving, there is a luck factor. Did I look at the right thing first or did I look at the right thing after struggling for three days on this problem? And the Wordle bot will answer that question for you.

It’ll say, “Oh, yeah, you totally got lucky. There were 60 possible words and you picked out the right one.” So, what I learned from that is maybe it was a lucky decision, but maybe it wasn’t the optimal decision, even though the optimal decision would’ve had a worse outcome in this situation. And recognize because… I guess to put it this way, if you can’t separate what was lucky from what was good, then you’re going to depend on getting lucky more and more.

You’re going to internalize what you did that made you get lucky rather than internalizing what you did that actually set yourself up for success.

Mike Gerholdt: Well, I think that’s… some of that has to do with why people gamble. They just feel they’re lucky as opposed to working through the, I go back to the… I love the movie Apollo 13. Let’s work the problem and go through it. Kind of transitioning that because I obviously could talk Wordle. You also do that really good on the mini crossword, where if by chance you happen to get all the downs, all the downs also solve all the acrosses for the most part.

And so, you’ll go back through and be like, “Oh, well, let’s look and see actually what these questions were that the answer just autofilled back in.” I think there has to be something that it does to your brain because it also trains it. You’re like, “Oh, now, I’m not just reading this word, I’m also reading the clue that the creator of the puzzle had in addition to what the word is, and it just happened to be filled in for me.”

Rangsk: Yeah. If we want to even just touch back on Connections for a little bit.

Mike Gerholdt: Yeah, please.

Rangsk: Every day I get comments from people saying, “Oh, the first thing I do is shuffle because they put in these red herrings and I don’t want to be tricked by them.” And I feel like this is just intentionally throwing out information about the puzzle because we’ve been told that they think very, very hard actually. They put a lot of thought into the arrangement of the words that are presented to you, which means they’ve added information to the system.

And by hitting shuffle immediately, without even attempting to interpret that information, you’ve thrown out part of the puzzle. And to me, I feel like I can go, “Okay, well, they decided to put these tiles next to each other. What does that mean? Are they trying to trick me? Are they trying to hint me towards the solution? What is the information that they are trying to give me by this placement?”

And I would lose all that if I hit shuffle. And so, I feel like it’s kind of a short-sighted strategy because you can’t learn to overcome the tricks that they’re trying to put into the puzzle if you just wipe them clean first thing without even appreciating them.

Mike Gerholdt: Right. Absolutely. Actually, you’re the one that taught me that. I was partway through at Connections the other day and I think that two words were iron and steel, and I was like, “Those started right next to each other. I bet those don’t have anything to do with each other. I’m not going to fall for it.”

Rangsk: Yeah, sure enough, they didn’t. Exactly. And had you hit shuffle, you wouldn’t have known that.

Mike Gerholdt: No idea.

Rangsk: And you might’ve said, “Well, iron and steel, those are both metals. Maybe that’s a thing.” I think they’re getting wise to me. I think the other day they actually put three of them all on top of each other that were in the same category.

Mike Gerholdt: Oh, no.

Rangsk: In general, they are adding information when they, instead of presenting the tiles in a random order, just having a piece of software randomize it and presenting it, they are laying it out and they’re discussing how they want to lay it out. And I think that’s part of the puzzle. You’re removing some of the interest in the puzzle by hitting shuffle. And it’s the same with mini crossword.

Yeah, you can solve it with just the acrosses or just the downs, but you’re losing something by not at least going back and looking what was the whole puzzle. Because these kinds of clues are going to come up over and over again and this is a perfect opportunity, while it’s fresh in your mind and while you’re in the context, to use it as a learning experience for future puzzles.

Mike Gerholdt: I completely agree. So, I think one of the things that fascinates me and I love using, I’ll call them word games and maybe they’re logic games. You need to tell me the difference. But using these to keep my mind sharp is I feel like it helps me be a better thinker just in general, just at my job, just working through decisions in life. You’ve been solving games a lot longer than me. How have you seen that kind of help you in your professional career?

Rangsk: It’s really interesting that you asked that because an aspect of my day job is actually studying transference is what the psychology term is, which is if you are to play a game and get good at it or do a logic puzzle and get good at that puzzle, does that have transference? Does that transfer to other aspects of your life? Are you just getting better at that game? Or is there sort of a rippling effect to the rest of your life?

Okay. If I play GeoGuessr where I’m trying to locate where I am in the world, does that make me a better driver on my commute? Or if I am playing logic puzzles a lot, does that make me better at debugging software? Whatever it is that you’re trying to actually accomplish in your life, are these things just games and you get good at that one game, or are these things that are going to transfer to other areas of your life?

And that’s actually a pretty hot topic of study within psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience. And there’s a lot of studies going on right now related to that with mixed results. Some of these things that they claim, “Hey, if you play this game every day, you’re going to get smarter. You’re going to get better in these other areas of your life.” And it may not be true.

For me personally, I find it beneficial to just keep using my brain. Think of the brain as a muscle and just keep using it. Make sure those connections are strong. And by practicing it in low-stakes scenarios, when you get hit with a high-stakes scenario, you have this sort of instinct to fall back on for how you’re going to handle that. Yeah. Does that-

Mike Gerholdt: No, I’m still processing all of that transference information you gave because I was just thinking about how that applies to other things like prepping for tests. Did you just get good at taking the test, or did you genuinely learn the information? We can also talk about tests, but nobody wants to do that anyway.

Rangsk: I’ll talk about it.

Mike Gerholdt: Are you just good at taking the test too? That’s the third thing to bring up.

Rangsk: Yeah, exactly. And this is a big topic in education, has been for a long time, which is how much do we lean on standardized tests and how much do we teach to the test? And is the standardized test important because we just need metrics on how students are generally doing, or is the standardized test also something that can direct curriculum? That’s a question that every teacher has.

And I don’t think there’s a perfect answer to that, and I’m also not much of an expert on that at all. But in my opinion, I think that anything you learn is good. I’ve always hated the question, when am I going to use this? The answer is, you use your brain every day. And the more you can teach your brain how to learn and all these cool things, that expands your horizons.

It expands your use of your brain. Yeah, sure, you might not use algebra if you’re not an accountant or a scientist or a mathematician. Yeah, you might not use algebra, but one day you’re going to have the question and you’re going to have the curiosity that’s going to relate to math in some way. And you either have the tools to think about it properly or you don’t, and that’s something that you could have internalized, but you decided you weren’t going to use it, and so you didn’t.

But there’s the expression, when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. I have always thought that the more tools you have in your toolbox, the more versatile you can be in problem-solving and just living your life properly. Properly is not the right word. I didn’t mean to say it that way, but living your life to its fullest extent, being able to accomplish the goals that you want to accomplish, being successful.

It’s all about setting yourself up for success. And you don’t know what problems are going to arise. And so, the more tools you give yourself, the less everything starts looking like a nail, and the more you can be exacting and fall back on previous experience.

Mike Gerholdt: Yeah, I often think of… it’s funny you bring up that algebra example. I was also that kid that was really horrible at math, so I never played Sudoku. But the concept sometimes of how you solve the algebra problem, I think to me, was also more important than what the answer was.

And that to me is almost like the first time you pull the cover off a toy and realize there’s a whole bunch of gears inside that make the bear move and kind of understanding, “Oh, there’s more to this that I need to understand as opposed to just what the outcome is.” We had this discussion the other day, outputs versus outcomes.

And if your outputs is solved puzzles, are you smarter than if your outcome is no, but I learned the process and I learned how to work through difficult situations. The outcome is very different than the outputs.

Rangsk: I love the way you put that and that’s something… I solve The New York Times hard Sudoku every day on my YouTube channel. And my goal is not to say, “Look, I solved the puzzle.” My goal is to help the viewers be able to solve the puzzle, but not just that. To understand that it’s the act of solving it that’s the fun part, not having that completed grid with all the correct numbers in it.

And it seems obvious when I say it that way, but I get so many people commenting saying, “Well, if I just go through and fill out all the candidates first, which by the way is super boring, then I can solve it in four minutes, and you took 12 minutes.” I feel like I failed that person because now they’re going to get bored of Sudoku very quickly.

Because who wants the first thing they do when they first receive that piece of paper or the digitally, the Sudoku puzzle, is go cell by cell and do accounting work? The puzzle can tell you a story if you let it tell you the story. And there are ways that you can approach the problem solving such that you are following along. It’s like you’re reading a book.

You’re following along the story. And in a sense, it’s almost like a “choose your own adventure book” where you can choose where you want to go next. What do I want to discover about this puzzle? And just put a smile on your face every day because you found this really cool piece of logic and you go, “Ooh, that’s really neat. It just told me about this cool structure.”

And people who are like, “Oh, well, I solve it in two minutes and I can just plunk them down, and I don’t understand why you’re doing all of this.” And a year later, they’ve moved on. They’re not doing Sudoku anymore, and they think it’s boring. And I’m still doing it and I’m still learning from it every day.

Mike Gerholdt: Right. Because the outcome for you is a lot different. The euphemism is the journey versus the destination.

Rangsk: Yes. I’m a big fan of Brandon Sanderson and that’s a big thing in Stormlight Archive, which is there’s… not to get too spoilery, I won’t spoil Stormlight Archive for people. But there is a group of people who basically have a mantra and part of that is journey before destination. We all have the same destination. And when it comes to puzzles, the destination is the solved puzzle, but it’s about how you got there.

The journey is the important thing. And you can start talking about things, do the ends justify the means? It’s much of a corollary to that when you start talking about how you live your life. And I feel like if you start approaching even a logic puzzle that you’re doing for fun, if you approach that in a way where you’re trying to take shortcuts, that’s training yourself to take shortcuts in all areas of your life.

And I feel like that’s… you’re cheating yourself. That’s another thing. People are like, “Is it cheating if I do this? Is it cheating if I do that?” And it’s like, it’s a single-player game. There’s no stakes to it. The only person you’re cheating is yourself. Are you enjoying the way that you’re solving this? And that’s the important thing. Okay, if I’m doing a crossword or if I’m doing Connections and there’s a word I don’t know, is it cheating if I look it up?

Well, that’s up to you. Do you want this to be a trivia game where you need to be going into the puzzle with a certain set of knowledge, and you want to learn as you go, and you learn from your failures because you didn’t know what that word meant? And now you’ve looked it up and now you’re going to remember it? That’s one way to approach it.

And a perfectly other valid way to approach it is, “Oh, this puzzle has shown me this word that I don’t know. This is a perfect opportunity to look it up and have some success because I looked it up.” And I think both approaches are valid.

Mike Gerholdt: Yeah. There’s so much to unpack there, but the first thing I wanted to say was the best and worst times of doing any of the logic puzzles or The New York Times stuff is when it’s solved is the best because I was like, “Yes, I did it.” And the worst is, “Ugh, it’s over.” Especially a few times with Wordle or with Connections or even the mini crossword, “Oh, I finally got it.”

And to that other point, there have been times when I was like, “Okay, I clearly…” I don’t know some… I think one of the questions was something and it was super pop culture. I was like, “I just need to Google this. That’s my mulligan. I’m going to take it, I’m going to Google it and that’s going to give me the answer.” Because I’m past the point of enjoyment for this game and I need a little boost to get me back and going for that, and it’s my game, so I can do that.

Rangsk: Yeah. And it’s all about knowing yourself and knowing what you’re going to be happy with later and what you might be sad about later. And I think you kind of hit the nail on the head. Are you still enjoying the puzzle? Because that’s the important thing. We don’t do these because it’s our job. We’re doing puzzles because it’s fun and enriching.

And so, it’s all about sustainability. What’s going to sustain your interest in this hobby? And are you going to be a flash in the pan where you deep dive into crosswords or Sudoku or whatever word game for a month and then you’re done with it and you move on? That’s one personality style. Another personality style is crosswords are something that I do every morning for 50 years.

There are people like that too. There are a lot of people like that. And there’s a big difference. Someone who’s going to do that every morning for 50 years, they’re enjoying it every day and they’ve found ways to sustain that enjoyment. Whereas there-

Mike Gerholdt: Go ahead.

Rangsk: Sorry, go ahead.

Mike Gerholdt: No, I’m 100% with you. I was going to ask because we didn’t touch on it and maybe it’s for a reason because it’s in beta, but Strands. I think you said it in one of your puzzles, I was like, “I just need you. Can you just tell me if any of the four letters I put together are close to one of the words you want as opposed to just nothing?” And I think that for me, we get some of that.

Well, you can tell me more of the game logic. But with Wordle and with Connections, at least with Wordle, I get a yellow. I get a colored square. Regardless of what I put in, I’m getting a color back. And with Connections, oftentimes I’m like, “Please just say one away.” But you get kind of that.

Rangsk: But even if it’s not one away, it’s still information.

Mike Gerholdt: It is, yes. Except with Strands.

Rangsk: Yeah, Strands is missing that. And the reason Strands is missing that is because I really feel like they built the hint system because they knew this was an issue. But the hint system is terrible because people don’t want to use it. Some people do use it, but I don’t like using it. I think that, first of all, making it a choice. Wordle, you don’t have the choice to see whether a tile was yellow or green.

It’s just going to tell you. It’s part of the game. A hint system feels like it’s external to the game as like a, “I’m not good enough, so I’m going to press the hint button.” And I don’t think that was their intent, but I think that’s what’s happened because they realized that most of these games have some kind of lockstep functionality where you make as you progress through the puzzle and you gain information as you go.

Whereas with Strands, you can be sitting there for 15 minutes and know as much as you did on minute one, even though you have found 100 words because you didn’t find any of the words that they’re intending and you’re not understanding what the theme is trying to hit you towards. And it’s just frustrating. And so, they probably saw that in the playtest and went, “Well, if you get three words, we’ll give you a word.”

But that doesn’t feel good because, first of all, they gave the choice. I kind of wonder what would the game be like? Is it just you get three words and it just reveals one without pressing hint? And it was just part of the game. I feel like more people would accept that rather than opting into admitting that you’re not good enough at the game.

But also the hint system is just simultaneously not powerful enough and too powerful. And I could rant about this. I feel like it’s a bit off-topic.

Mike Gerholdt: No, this is 100% on topic.

Rangsk: All right. Well, I’ll rant about it then. Early on, it’s too powerful because it gives you… for those not familiar with Strands, it’s like a word search game, but they don’t tell you what words you’re looking for.

Mike Gerholdt: Nope.

Rangsk: Instead, they all follow a theme. Maybe the theme is names of football teams or the theme is pieces of time, so seconds, minutes, hours. And some of them are a bit more esoteric. They might be words that are slaying for money, but are also food was one of them. And so, it really varies in difficulty. And they give you a little kind of crossword style clue hint at the start of what the theme might be.

But it’s usually not. Usually, it’s either, “Oh, I know exactly what the theme is from this clue,” or, “I have no idea what the theme is from this clue.” There’s not much in between. But anyway, what the hint does is if you get three words that they didn’t intend, if you find three words, you can press the hint button and it highlights all of the letters involved in one of the words.

And then, it becomes an unscramble basically. And then, you find that word. And I think the ideal situation when using the hint is then, okay, now that I know what one of the words is, I’ve now gained information about what the theme might be and I can try to think of other words that match. And if that’s not enough, I’ll find three more and I’ll press hint again and I’ll get another word.

But it’s too powerful because people don’t want to just be shown one of the words. That’s literally taking away from the enjoyment of the game because the game is only finding the words. And so, you’re literally pressing a button saying, “I want one last word to find please.” But then, at the end, sometimes you’re down to one word left, it tells you how many words you need to find, and you’re down to one word left.

And I’ve literally spent 10, 15 minutes trying to unscramble that word because I can’t figure it out. When it was Broadway shows, and I couldn’t unscramble Carousel for the life of me because I hadn’t heard of that Broadway show, and it’s a weird word. Carousel. And so, the hint wouldn’t have helped me. If I’d pressed hint, it would’ve highlighted all the letters.

So, the hint is simultaneously too powerful early on and not powerful enough at the end. And then, also on top of that, isn’t giving you what you want from a hint. So, I feel like it’s a failure in game design there. And what they should have done is built-in ratcheting game mechanics that aren’t opt-in.

Mike Gerholdt: What are ratcheting game mechanics? Please tell me.

Rangsk: So, if you think about a ratchet wrench. When you go one way, it doesn’t lose progress on tightening, and then you go the other way and it tightens more. That’s what a ratchet is. And so, you can make progress without losing progress. So, as you put input into the system and as you find things towards the game mechanics, you have now ratcheted yourself, you’ve given yourself more information.

It’s a ratchet-style gameplay. So, like Wordle, you input a guess and you get those yellows and greens and grays, and now you have more information about what the answer might be. And you never lose that information. That information never becomes obsolete. You can always use it. So, in the same way, that’s why some of my suggestions for Strands were, “Hey, you know what?”

“If I get partial word, maybe it should tell me, ‘Hey, you got a partial word. You’re on the right track.'” It’s ratcheted that information into the system. It’s like getting a green or a yellow in Wordle. Or if they want to keep the hint system, maybe one option for the hint system would be show me the starting letter of one of the words. Not the whole word, just give me somewhere to start.

Mike Gerholdt: Where do I start? Yeah.

Rangsk: Yeah. This letter I know is the start of a word now and I can focus my search on that. And so, I wouldn’t feel as bad pressing that. But what if that were just part of the game mechanics? It’s like rewarding you for finding words. They aren’t the right words, but you’re still finding valid words that exist. So, why not have those, just add information to the system as you guess in certain creative ways.

So, it feels like a failure of game design that there isn’t that sort of ratchet other than the opt-in very heavy-handed hint system that they have right now.

Mike Gerholdt: Right. I am so glad you brought up that Broadway Strands because I was about… I’m like, “I think I’m done. I think I’m done with Strands now.” It took me so long to get… the first thing I found with Strands is you either get started and it starts to make sense, or you’re sitting there and you’re looking at these two words and the clue and you’re like, “I have no idea what these three things have to do with each other. I don’t know what another word to look for.”

But that Broadway with Carousel, I was stuck on Carousel. I got everything else. Those are the only letters left. I never hit the hint button. And I thought, “What happens if you hit the hint button when you’re done?” Because at that point, I’ll be honest, the game Joy, it was no joy in Mudville right now. I just wanted to be done. Just please tell me what the answer is. I think I went through… I watched your TikTok.

I went through all the same words you did. I’m like, “I don’t know what word this is. Just tell me.” And when I hit hint, it just put the little things around. I was like, “I know it’s those letters.”

Rangsk: Yeah, exactly.

Mike Gerholdt: I know it’s those letters. Get me out of here. Where is the escape room button? That’s the only time I wanted the hint button to just be like, “Nope, we’re just going to solve this because we feel bad for you.”

Rangsk: And people use my videos as hints. They’ll be like, “Well, I’m done with this puzzle. I haven’t solved it, but I’m not getting joy out of it. Let’s see what Rangsk did.” Rangsk being my handle. “Let’s see what he did and maybe that’ll give me a hint.” And that’s actually the entire premise of me doing The New York Times hard Sudoku every day in that instructive way is I know that there’s always going to be someone who’s stuck on that specific Sudoku puzzle because it’s so widespread.

It’s published by The New York Times. They’re going to search on YouTube or Google. They’re going to search “New York Times Sudoku today walkthrough or hint.”

Mike Gerholdt: Solve or something.

Rangsk: Yeah, solve. And they’re going to find my video and that’ll track them to my channel. And not only will they find my video, but this video is going to blow their mind if they don’t know modern Sudoku-solving techniques. And they’re going to be like, “Wow, I need to watch more of these because this is way more fun than how I’ve been solving Sudoku, and I don’t get stuck as much.”

“And if I do get stuck, I watch him until he does something I didn’t know, and then I can continue.” So, almost using me as a hint button. And I feel like with Strands, there’s no strategy. Strands feels like a trivia game to me almost. I’ve been trying so hard to make it a logic game, which you probably have noticed if you watched my Strand solves, where I’m like, “Okay, corner strategy, edge strategy.”

And it kind of works, but it’s not perfect and there’s not a whole lot of logic involved. I will say there are word search games that do feel a lot more like a logic puzzle. One of them that I play is called Cell Tower. And this is probably the coolest word search game I’ve played. Normally, I’m not a big fan of word search-style games. I’m not very good at them.

But to briefly explain this game, it’s a grid of letters just as you’d expect a word search to be. And the way that these letters form words is a little bit unique, and that’s not that important to describe, except basically you’re drawing shapes in the grid. So, you’re connecting the letters together in kind of a different way that you’d normally expect.

You’re not drawing a line through the letters to make words in order. You’re just sort of highlighting them, and they have to be connected in some way. And it’s red left to right, top to bottom. And so, it’s sort of limiting you on… you can’t make a word bottom right to top left. You can’t just draw a line that way, or you can’t zigzag around. Instead, there’s a specific logical order to how the letters are going to appear in a word.

In addition to that, every letter is part of a word, similar to Strands in that way. So, every letter will be involved in a word, and there is only one solution. So, you can’t just go, “Okay, I found this word. Let’s lock that in. Okay, now I found this word.” You’re going to find a bunch of words, but you need to look at how that affects the rest of the grid around it and make sure you’re not preventing the ability for the letters around it to also be part of words.

And that’s where the logic comes in, where you go, “Okay, I think this word might be part of it. Can I add an -ed ending, an -ing ending, an S at the end? Is there a prefix I can add to it to expand that word? But also, how does that affect the letters around it? Am I going to be able to make a word out of these other letters if this was one of the words I use?”

And so, you end up with this really logical approach to how you solve it. And you’re thinking about how letters go together, how they go next to each other, and how words are formed in general. And you’re looking at corners like, “Okay, this letter is going to have to be related to the letters around it in some way because it’s in a corner because it’s been isolated in some way.”

And so, it’s not that you’re trying to just find words that match a theme and the computer tells you, “Oh, yep, you found one of them,” or, “Nope, that wasn’t what I was looking for, sorry,” with no extra information. Instead, you’re trying to solve this logically and the computer is not giving you any help at all there. It’s just the grid, the full information of the grid being used.

So, in a way, it’s a lot like Sudoku, but also like Connections where you can’t just pick any four words that happen to relate because that might disrupt the ability for the other words to relate to each other. So, that’s what really makes a logic puzzle a logic puzzle is you have to take the puzzle as a whole and you have to take steps that are logical. It’s not just a trivia game.

Mike Gerholdt: That’s so apropos to everything that we talked about. You have to look at the puzzle as a whole. Last question, because I happened to think of this when we were talking about Strands. As somebody that’s online solving problems, word games and stuff, how hard, how many times do you just want to hit that hint button? Does that ever come up?

Maybe you have the patience of a saint, but have you ever gotten to that point where I know you’re creating this for the good of other people and you have to walk through that, but you’re like, “Maybe I just hit the hint button because I’m at 35 minutes on this video?”

Rangsk: Yeah, for sure. And there’s different forms that that takes in my mind. There’s the built-in hint buttons to the game, but then there’s also like, “Do I just Google this word?” I did do that once. There was a Connections, and I knew I was about to lose. I was like, “Okay, I’ve got no mistakes left. And there are three words on the board that I have no idea what they mean.

Literally never heard these words in my life. So, how am I supposed to… is it good content for me to just make a guess and lose? Or do I go on Google, look up what the words mean, and continue the puzzle?” And in that case, I decided to do that. And I got mostly feedback saying, “Yeah, I Googled it too. It was fine to Google it, looking it up. What’s wrong with that?”

But then, I got a lot of negative feedback too about “How’s it feel to cheat? You’re such a cheater, blah, blah, blah.” Just so much negativity. And so, I have to weigh the decision on how much negativity do I want in my comment section here, because they aren’t just insulting me when they’re calling me a cheater. They’re calling everyone else who Googled a cheater.

So, people are seeing themselves in that comment when they’re reading through the comment section. And that’s something I need to figure… it’s not something I’ve solved. I don’t have an answer. But what I try to do is understand myself and go, “Okay, am I 35 minutes into this puzzle legitimately, or am I just done with it?” There’s a game I play called Squaredle. There’s actually two games I play.

Mike Gerholdt: It sounds like all the puzzles put together.

Rangsk: Yeah. There’s two games I play called Squaredle. One of them has an extra E and one doesn’t. The one with the extra E… so one of them removes the E in square and one of them keeps the E in square when they add the -dle ending. They’re completely different games. One of them that I play with the E, it’s another word search game.

It’s a grid of four by four or sometimes five by five letters. And you need to find every possible word other than esoteric ones. They have some list of words that… you know how there’s words that aren’t really words, if you know what I mean? The esoteric ones, the archaic ones, out of use, highly specialized words. You don’t have to find those.

They count as bonus words if you do find them. But there’s a list of words that it’s looking for you to get. And sometimes this list is 60 to 100 words. And this game can take me an hour and a half.

Rangsk: I sit there and I record the whole solve. It’s a special occasion usually. I’ll do it once every week or every two weeks and then put it on my YouTube where I solve the hardest Squaredle of the week. Because just like The New York Times puzzles, it gets harder through the week. And so, I’m like, “I’m going to solve the hardest one today.”

And it’s a lesson in patience because you have to find every word, and it can take an hour and a half. And that’s the kind of game where it’s like, “Okay, I’m 30 minutes in, but I’m still solving the puzzle. And that’s okay.” There’s also Sudokus that can take an hour, an hour and a half just because they’re that hard. But it feels like you’re making progress.

If you feel like you’re making progress, that’s just you’re still in the journey. You’re still solving it, and that’s fine. It doesn’t matter how long it’s been, as long as you still feel like you’re in the puzzle and you’re making progress and you’re enjoying it. But then, there’s puzzles where… the puzzle usually takes two minutes, and you’re 30 minutes into it, and you feel like you haven’t made progress in the last 25 minutes or ever.

And you just have to make the decision of like, “Is this worth my time anymore?” And I’ve definitely had puzzles where I hit the stop button on the recording and I delete the video, and I just go, “I’m not solving that one today.” Or ones where I go, “Well, it’s time to get a hint.” Literally, I just say, “I have failed this puzzle, but I want to see the end of it, so I’m going to look stuff up.”

You have to make that decision in your head. And I think you brought up a really important point, which is… I think you brought this point up at least, it became this point in my head, which is you need to decide for yourself when that is and that it’s okay. You gave it your best, time to seek help. And I think that’s something that’s really important in life is that it’s okay to seek help when you need it.

I think people appreciate when you’ve put in some effort yourself first, but at the same time, they don’t want… let me put it this way. I’ve been lead of several different teams as a programmer for my day job. And as a lead programmer, I would rather a junior programmer come to me with a problem that I can solve in a minute than spend six hours banging their head against it.

But at the same time, if it would’ve only taken them 10 minutes, I’d prefer them to learn that on their own. So, it’s important to learn at what point have I stopped being productive? Have I stopped enjoying this? Am I not in the right mindset and I either need to take a break, do something else, or I need to seek help, or both?

Mike Gerholdt: Yeah. No, I think you’re right. The hint button and being called a cheater, you’re only cheating yourself. It’s what do you need to move on with? And your example is perfect. Is there something that can be gained by that person asking you? But I also think, what level of thinking did they put into solving this before they came to me?

And I always look at it as I’m very appreciative of, they came to me because they hit that wall, but they also realized quickly that they hit that wall.

Rangsk: Exactly.

Mike Gerholdt: And now they need to move on so that that learning journey continues as opposed to being frustrated in themselves.

Rangsk: Yeah. And that’s a skill unto itself. And that really separates the people you enjoy working with from the people you don’t enjoy working with, people who are team players and people who aren’t. That really separates them because it’s a matter of, “I don’t want to be doing your job for you. I’ve got my own job to do, but also I don’t want you sitting there suffering as if you were alone.”

And there’s that balance. And recognizing in yourself when you’ve hit that state is really important. And I think that… going back to the conversation about transference. That’s something that can transfer. If you’re playing games, and you can learn in a low-stakes scenario, how do I… be in yourself, be in your body, be in your mind, and be like, “I now recognize what I’m like when I’m in this hopeless scenario where I’ve given up without giving up, where I’m frustrated, where I’m tired, where I’m hungry.”

It’s something even like children need to learn. Am I sad or am I just hungry? Or do I need to take a nap? That’s something children need to learn, but it’s not something we stop learning as a child. It’s something we need to always know ourselves, know how our mind works, know what our limitations are, and know what our limitations aren’t.

Is this something I can just continue on, or is this something that I need to use my coping mechanisms that I’ve learned throughout my life to deal with this situation? Part of the problem has now become my own mind. And that’s something you can learn by putting yourself constantly in these difficult situations, like difficult logic puzzles or trivia puzzles, where you’re not very familiar with that trivia or whatever it is for you that puts you out of your comfort zone in a safe, low-stakes environment.

So, you can learn how you yourself react to that and what that’s going to take. And part of my job, implementing things, software. I need to recognize… have you ever had that… I’m sure everyone’s had that late night where you’ve been banging your head against this fog or a thing you’re trying to implement is just not working. You go home dejected. You get some sleep. You come in in the morning and you fix it in two minutes.

And had you just recognized that you were in that situation where you were not going to be productive anymore, and you’d just gone home and you’d gotten rest and you’d accepted that that’s what’s happening. And you actually had your relaxing night and you took the time that you needed for yourself, and you got the good amount of sleep, and then you came in the morning ready to go, and you just solved the problem.

Those two scenarios look the same from a work perspective, but look very different from a personal hygiene, mental hygiene perspective.

Mike Gerholdt: I couldn’t agree more. I couldn’t agree more. I think it’s also a great way to end this discussion, David. Thanks for coming on the podcast. You gave me so much to think about and here I was just excited to talk about word games. But really a lot of it is how you look at everything in life and how you tackle situations.

And really part of, I think, the word game or the game itself is also helping you understand yourself. So, this is a great discussion. I appreciate it. Thanks so much.

Rangsk: Well, thanks for having me on. And if people want to watch my content, I’m just going to plug my stuff real quick.

Mike Gerholdt: Absolutely.

Rangsk: So, I am Rangsk on all platforms. R-A-N-G-S-K. I’m sure there’ll be something in the description where you can find that. I’m on YouTube and also on TikTok. And I recently had to split my TikTok into multiple accounts. But if you find that Rangsk_YT account, that’s the main one, and you’ll be able to find the others through my videos.

And so, if you enjoy Sudoku, logic puzzles, word games, that sort of thing in an instructive calm environment, then my channel is for you.

Mike Gerholdt: So, as I write, this was a shot in the dark, I’ll be honest with you. I reached out to David after being completely addicted to his TikTok videos on Connections and Wordle, and just thought, “This is really what critical thinking looks like to me.” And the conversation, I probably could have gone for another hour easily. I had a hundred more questions in my head, but I hope you enjoy it.

I do want you to do one thing. If you enjoyed this episode, go ahead and give David a follow. I promise you it’s super rewarding to watch his critical thinking and the way that he solves problems and word problems and word games online. I honestly do think it will make you a better Salesforce admin and a better business analyst in general.

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Teacher Who Went Viral For Teaching Critical Thinking Gets Fired

Warren smith used socratic method to break down jk rowling debate.

Warren Smith went viral (after a retweet from Elon Musk) at the beginning of the year when he posted a discussion with a pupil about the Harry Potter author, JK Rowling.

The pupil asked Mr. Smith whether he still liked Rowling’s work despite her “bigoted opinions”.

For those who have not been following the JK Rowling saga, the author is very vocal about sex and gender issues. Rowling believes that trans activism is having a significant impact on feminism and is worried about the number of young women wishing to transition. As a result she has been abused online, cancelled and turned on by former friends and colleagues (including actors she made famous, such as Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson).

I admire Rowling for standing up for what she believes in and for championing free speech. She is fortunate to be rich enough to be able to do so but, even so, most people in her position would not and do not raise their heads above the parapet.

Mr. Smith’s viral video used the Socratic Method to guide his pupil to think critically about the author. It was a masterclass in asking and answering questions to try to establish the truth.

“We’re going to treat this as a thought experiment. I’m not going to say what is right or wrong or which way to think. The whole point is to learn how to think not what to think.”

A week ago, Mr. Smith was fired from the same school in which the viral video took place. He had been teaching there for four yours. Whilst we don’t know the exact reason he lost his job, in a recent update, he suggests it was because of the backlash to his videos.

He is clearly shaken up in his video describing what happened to him. The school seems to have given him little warning and confiscated his laptop containing books he is writing and cryptocurrency codes - a painful lesson showing the importance of data backups.

If Warren was fired purely based on his opinions and way of teaching, this is a disgrace. So long as he didn’t violate any terms of his contract or bring the school into disrepute, then going against the herd and thinking critically should be encouraged. In fact, it should be the norm.

From everything we know, it seems that this is another cancellation due to different opinions causing some hurty feelings. Critical thinking has lost to critical theory, where groupthink is unfortunately prospering.

Good luck to Mr. Smith but as he seems like an intelligent and eloquent man, I’m sure he’ll find another job relatively soon.

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