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Thinkabout
Season 1 · Episode 14
Giving & Getting Meaning: Where Are You Coming From?
0.015mDecember 17, 1979
At prep school, Coulter, Hansen, and Blake share and interpret the meaning behind their teacher asking to see them after class, both about their grades and about working on a story about the school.
Episodes
- Episode 1Finding Alternatives: Why Bother?
- Episode 2Finding Alternatives: Brainstorming
- Episode 3Finding Alternatives: Blockbusting
- Episode 4Finding Alternatives: You Can Remember
- Episode 5Estimating and Approximating: Estimating
- Episode 6Estimating and Approximating: Approximating
- Episode 7Estimating and Approximating: Using Estimating and Approximating
- Episode 8Estimating and Approximating: Find Your Guide
- Episode 9Giving & Getting Meaning: What's the Meaning?
- Episode 10Giving & Getting Meaning: Meaning is More than Words
- Episode 11Giving & Getting Meaning: Remember the Audience!
- Episode 12Giving & Getting Meaning: But What Does It Mean?
- Episode 13Giving & Getting Meaning: The Bigger Picture
- Episode 14Giving & Getting Meaning: Where Are You Coming From?
- Episode 15Challenge #1: Time Capsule: Make a Present for the Future
- Episode 16Collecting Information: What Do I Know?
- Episode 17Collecting Information: Where Should I Go?
- Episode 18Collecting Information: What Should I Do?
- Episode 19Collecting Information: There are Ways to Remember
- Episode 20Classifying: Classifying Objects
- Episode 21Classifying: Classifying Information
- Episode 22Classifying: Stereotyping People
- Episode 23Classifying: There Are Many Ways to Go
- Episode 24Finding Patterns: People Patterns
- Episode 25Finding Patterns: Communication Patterns
- Episode 26Finding Patterns: Cultural Patterns
- Episode 27Finding Patterns: Nature's Patterns
- Episode 28A Challenge: Search for the Unknown
- Episode 29Generalizing: Drawing Conclusions
- Episode 30Generalizing: Checking Conclusions
- Episode 31A Tip: Practice for Success
- Episode 32Sequencing & Scheduling: One Step at a Time
- Episode 33Sequencing & Scheduling: Plan Ahead
- Episode 34Sequencing and Scheduling: Calm Your Jitters!
- Episode 35Using Criteria: What Are They?
- Episode 36Using Criteria: Where Do You Get Them?
- Episode 37Using Criteria: How Do You Change That?
- Episode 38A Challenge: Design a Language
- Episode 39Reshaping Information: Symbols
- Episode 40Reshaping Information: More Than You Think
- Episode 41Reshaping Information: Summarizing
- Episode 42Reshaping Information: Maps and Models
- Episode 43A Tip: Get Ahead with Goals
- Episode 44Judging Information: Should I Believe It?
- Episode 45Judging Information: What's Important?
- Episode 46Judging Information: What's Enough?
- Episode 47Judging Information: Point of View
- Episode 48Judging Information: Persuasive Techniques
- Episode 49A Tip: Make a Deal with Yourself
- Episode 50Communicating Effectively: Styles of Communication
- Episode 51Communicating Effectively: Planning a Presentation
- Episode 52Communicating Effectively: Making a Presentation
- Episode 53Communicating Effectively: Making Your Point!
- Episode 54Communicating Effectively: Making It Come Alive
- Episode 55A Challenge: Make Something New
- Episode 56Solving Problems: One Thing Leads to Another
- Episode 57Solving Problems: A Matter of Time
- Episode 58Solving Problems: There's Always a Risk
- Episode 59Solving Problems: Hanging in There
- Episode 60Plan a City of the Future