This sounds a stupid thing to ask, but it serves to illustrate how understanding something is intimately connected with having the language to describe it. Wittgenstein, the father of modern philosophy and linguistics, argued that you use language to communicate to others and yourself. Thus, in order to be able to think about something, you must first be equipped with the relevant language.

Conversely, if you learn new language, then you will be equipped to think about new things, or think in a different way. This is essentially the aim of the concepts section.

• Allow the future to happen to you
• Hope is energy

• Failure Demand
• Against customer satisfaction
• Perceived satisfaction gap

• Dan Oestreich on leadership

• Four stages of learning
• Responses to dissatisfaction
• Three levels of perception
• Why did that evolve?

• How we see the world
• Your are your history
• A new model for communication
• Stuff happens, you interpret it
• You find what you look for
• Investment thinking
• Activation Energy

• Motivation overview
• Inherent evil
• Inherent good
• Herzberg's hygeine factors
• Maslow's hierarchy of needs
• McClelland's motivational needs
• Vroom's expectancy theory

• Networked hierarchies
  
• Spreading activation
  
• Are you throwing a rock or a bird?

• Thinking environment
  
• Wheel of life
  

• Food Miles
  

• The two slits experiment