Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Transcendent Thinking & Community Life

[JoAnna Allen (jowooallen]

In line with promoting broader vision and thinking, I found the phrase  
"zoom out" wonderful in my own teaching and discussions . . . to help 
combanarrow perspectives that limit being bold.

On 3/27/2024 7:15 AM, Sharon Villines via Cohousing-L wrote:
> One of the newsletters I read every weekday is the SciTechDaily.com <http://scitechdaily.com/> that 
> lists new findings in all areas of the science and technology fields. Many of them can make life in a 
> community much easier — or at least easier to contemplate. The one I’m recommending today 
> reports on a study of teenagers but I’m sure can be applied to all ages.
>
> The question is how do you encourage people to think about the larger view, 
> whether it is possible, and whether the effort has any long-lasting effects? I 
> think about this most often in the decision-making process when we are 
> considering seemingly no-brainer decisions like posting signs to avoid 
> liability (Kitchen contains sharp objects) and the effect of triggering 
> anonymous institutional behavior instead of enhancing behavior that develops 
> community.
>
> Scientists Discover That “Transcendent” Thinking May Grow Teens’ Brains
> https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-discover-that-transcendent-thinking-may-grow-teens-brains/
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> New research has discovered that analyzing the broader implications of social 
> situations enhances brain growth and coordination in adolescents and predicts 
> stronger identity development and life satisfaction years later.
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> Transcendent thinking moves beyond reacting to the concrete specifics of social situations to 
> also consider the broader ethical, systems-level, and personal implications at play. Engaging 
> in this type of thinking involves analyzing situations for their deeper meaning, historical 
> contexts, civic significance, and/or underlying ideas and strengthens two large brain 
> networks. The executive control network is involved in managing focused and goal-directed 
> thinking, while the default mode network is active during all kinds of thinking that 
> transcends the “here and now,” such as when recalling personal experiences, 
> imagining the future, feeling enduring emotions such as compassion, gratitude, and admiration 
> for virtue, daydreaming or thinking creatively. Transcendent thinking also emphasizes the 
> critical role of adolescents in their own brain development.
>
> Original source: “Diverse adolescents’ transcendent thinking predicts young adult 
> psychosocial outcomes via brain network development” by Rebecca J. M. Gotlieb, Xiao-Fei Yang, 
> and Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, 15 March 2024, Scientific Reports.
> https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-56800-0
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> Sharon
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> Sharon Villines
> Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
> http://www.takomavillage.org
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