Saturday, August 3, 2013

Cognitive Development



The ability to retain memory, attentiveness, learning, reasoning, problem solving, decision making, and navigating language are all connected to cognitive thought. Without some level or aspect of cognitive thought I would dare say that liberation is not possible. The best platform to development such a skill might be chess which combines purpose with objective and ultimately contributes to cognitive development.

The combination of thoughts and moves make chess an interesting game to learn and a critical game to master for Afrikan’s. Once you study chess and the purpose behind defeating an opponent, the idea of liberation will become simple.

Let’s explore an example. Traveling on the train one afternoon I noticed an advertisement for a local community college promoting a new field of study, “Cyber Security”. Now at first I did not think much of it, but I remember the lesson that comes through when playing chess. Every move has a purpose. I looked back up at the article and asked myself why. Why that field of study, why that college, and why now. All these questions lead me to the discovery that the IT industry has been pushing initiatives across the country to boost the pool of qualified computer specialist in the cyber security field to combat all the digital theft that has taken place over the years. The idea actually has more motives attached to it but only the purpose is relevant here. The purpose is what created interest and ultimately lead to an investigation which will also lead to a solution.

So please consider the purpose of all activities as if playing chess and there will always be a logical explanation of how to over come any obstacles associated with those activities.