Start with yourself. Discover how to become a better ethical regulator of yourself. There is little risk to others in this experiment. Lot's of practical learning that will be useful when working on systems external to yourself.
Efficiency Requirements
# Purpose To clarify your purpose in life and help you to recognize your strongest motivating thoughts, write down your most important life goals: * [ ] Help reverse the developing chaos * [ ] Support my daughters and friends * [ ] Enjoy the outdoors with my dog * [ ] Learn, play, write * [ ] Health and fitness: 50/50 fifty lbs - fifty days * [ ]
# Truth (See DeBono's White Hat and Black Hat) To become a good judge (effective and ethical) of who tells the truth and who distorts it: * Seek alternative information sources that are genuinely independent of your primary sources. * [ ] * [ ] * [ ] * [ ] * Investigate inconsistencies that you notice. * [ ] * [ ] * [ ] * [ ] * Modify the reputation of liars. * [ ] * [ ] * [ ] * [ ] * Resolve to always doubt them skeptically in future. * [ ] * [ ] * [ ]
# Variety See DeBono's Yellow Hat and Green Hat. Brainstorm new actions, responses, and strategies that you have never previously considered, to make progress towards achieving your goals. * [ ] * [ ] * [ ] * [ ] * [ ] * [ ]
# Predictability See DeBono's Black Hat. Improve your model of human behaviour by studying the following Wikipedia articles until you are competent at recognizing the patterns in yourself and others: * [x] Cognitive biases Wikipedia * [ ] Defence mechanisms Wikipedia * [ ] Fallacies Wikipedia * [ ] Demagogue Wikipedia
# Intelligence See DeBono's Blue Hat * [ ] Take a course or read a book on critical thinking or personal effectiveness. * [ ] * [ ] * [ ] * [ ]
# Influence * Identify ways that you can increase your influence (on the following to achieve your life goals and promote your ethical values: * Your family * [ ] * [ ] * [ ] * Friends * [ ] * [ ] * [ ] * Colleagues * [ ] * [ ] * [ ] * Society * [ ] * [ ] * [ ]
Ethical Requirements
# Ethics * Write down five undesirable, unethical, or disrespectful behaviours that, up until now, you have tolerated in corporations, organizations, or other people: * [ ] * [ ] * [ ] * [ ] * [ ] * Next to them, write down five undesirable, unethical, or disrespectful behaviours that, up until now, you have tolerated in yourself. * [ ] * [ ] * [ ] * [ ] * [ ] * If you cannot think of five things about yourself, read the Wikipedia article: Denial Wikipedia . * If that does not help, ask someone that you live with to suggest ten things that you do that they would prefer you not to do. * [ ] * [ ] * [ ] * [ ] * [ ] * [ ] * [ ] * [ ] * [ ] * [ ]
# Integrity * Seek to s**top or prevent** all the undesirable, unethical, and disrespectful behaviours that you listed for ethics. * [ ] * [ ] * [ ] * [ ] * [ ]
# Transparency * Let other people know about the changes that you are making. * [ ] * [ ] * [ ] * [ ] * [ ]