Mindshift Mechanics

Build the System That Builds You

Build the System That Builds You

Prices increase July 16!

This 3-week course isn’t just about building a knowledge management or automation system—it’s about transforming your mindset and meta-cognition. The system you build is both a mirror and amplifier of your new adaptive way of thinking.

Students aren’t passive learners or template users; they become inventors and remixers—learning to construct, adapt, and even create their own adaptive thinking tools and exercises.

You can ask for a full refund anytime up through the first week of the course.

Current Module Flow & Structure

  • ​1. The Great Inversion—Why Mindshift Matters

    • Sets the “why” (AI, uncertainty, smaller/faster wins).

    • Introduces core ideas: the adaptive mind as the true engine; systems as extensions/amplifiers of self.

    • CRAP and IPODS introduced as foundational frameworks.

    • *Mini-deliverable: Change Map—personal adaptivity baseline.*

  • ​2. Mapping Your Edge—CRAP/IPODS + Self-Audit

    • Deep dive into personal differentiation, workflow bias, and system anatomy.

    • Students map their “moat” and system strengths/gaps.

    • *Deliverable: Differentiation Map.*

  • ​3. Build Your System—Giga Brain Foundations

    • Guided construction of a living insight engine (Giga Brain or equivalent, with doc).

    • System structure reflects personal edge and mindshift priorities.

    • *Deliverable: System skeleton + process documentation.*

  • ​4. Serendipity by Design—Insight Rituals

    • Students design and embed rituals for surfacing surprise, synthesis, and blindspots.

    • *Deliverable: Insight Surfacing Rituals.*

  • ​5. Opportunity Radar—Signals, Sensing, and Synthesis

    • Tools and routines for tracking weak signals, edge trends, timing new opportunities (e.g., when to hop on an AI “hype train”).

    • *Deliverable: Opportunity Radar (dashboard, workflow, or experiment).*

    • *Includes: “Hype Train Filter” exercise—when to jump versus wait.*

  • ​6. Adaptive Cognition Mechanics—Remix & Meta-Patterns

    • Explicit focus on meta-patterns: Focus Blinders, Stepwise Thinking, Layered Synthesis, CRAP/IPODS, Serendipity, Collaboration, Constraint, etc.

    • *Signature Pre-casting Group Exercise* (students act out stepwise, blinders-on thinking).

    • *Deliverable: Mini-exercise—design a micro-adaptive ritual or group exercise using 2–3 ingredients.*

  • ​7. Meta-System Design—Create & Share Your Adaptive Exercise (Capstone)

    • Students invent and facilitate their own adaptive cognition exercise/model, using course frameworks.

    • Peer testing, feedback, and reflection.

    • *Deliverable: Original adaptive exercise/model + reflection.*

  • ​8. The System That Builds You—Demo & Debrief

    • Capstone demos: present your evolved system AND your original meta-exercise.

    • Group debrief: how your system and thinking have changed; what new standards you’ve set.

    • *Deliverable: Demo + meta-exercise showcase + mindshift summary.*

Features

Clarify your unique edge — Identify and map your personal or professional differentiators, so you play to your strengths and stand out in any field
Clarify your unique edge — Identify and map your personal or professional differentiators, so you play to your strengths and stand out in any field
Clarify your unique edge — Identify and map your personal or professional differentiators, so you play to your strengths and stand out in any field
Make your best thinking the standard — Learn how to leverage AI to amplify your evolving mindset
Make your best thinking the standard — Learn how to leverage AI to amplify your evolving mindset
Make your best thinking the standard — Learn how to leverage AI to amplify your evolving mindset
Experience compounding momentum — Embed feedback loops and review rituals that turn progress into your new baseline, not just one-off wins
Experience compounding momentum — Embed feedback loops and review rituals that turn progress into your new baseline, not just one-off wins
Experience compounding momentum — Embed feedback loops and review rituals that turn progress into your new baseline, not just one-off wins
Sense and seize emerging opportunities — Build an Opportunity Radar to spot weak signals, time your moves, and avoid being blindsided by change
Sense and seize emerging opportunities — Build an Opportunity Radar to spot weak signals, time your moves, and avoid being blindsided by change
Sense and seize emerging opportunities — Build an Opportunity Radar to spot weak signals, time your moves, and avoid being blindsided by change
Master adaptive thinking patterns — Learn and remix essential cognition ingredients like focus blinders, stepwise logic, layered synthesis, and more
Master adaptive thinking patterns — Learn and remix essential cognition ingredients like focus blinders, stepwise logic, layered synthesis, and more
Master adaptive thinking patterns — Learn and remix essential cognition ingredients like focus blinders, stepwise logic, layered synthesis, and more
Know when to jump on new tech — Develop a decision framework to confidently evaluate AI trends and hype trains, so you invest wisely
Know when to jump on new tech — Develop a decision framework to confidently evaluate AI trends and hype trains, so you invest wisely
Know when to jump on new tech — Develop a decision framework to confidently evaluate AI trends and hype trains, so you invest wisely

© 2025 Strategic Design

© 2025 Strategic Design

© 2025 Strategic Design

© 2025 Strategic Design