The projects, known as the Rainbow Apartments and the New Carver Apartments and run by the nonprofit Skid Row Housing Trust, reflect changing thinking about how best to reintegrate the homeless into society.
Prisoners here attend "changing thinking" courses, where they attempt Edward de Bono-inspuzzlesuzzles, and gaze at reassuring posters pointing out: "There is nothing about a caterpillar that tells you it is going to be a butterfly".
It is not always obvious because we identify with something that is changing, thinking that it is something permanent.
He seems at first more preoccupied with changing thinking than changing legislation.
But she has a chance to build on the changing thinking of her three predecessors.
Rather than depending exclusively on quantitative analysis, this method relies on a "theory of mind" — defined by cognitive scientists as humans' innate ability, evolved over millions of years, to judge others' changing thinking, their understandings, their intentions, their pretenses.
A number of years ago I wrote an article for The New York Times Magazine examining fatal medical errors, and the changing thinking that assigned blame not to humans but to systems.
Christians were more likely to consider "psychotherapy focused on changing thinking" as helpful than Mandaeans (p = .018, Mean Rank = 122.79, and 93.74 respectively), whereas Mandaeans were more likely to consider "traditional therapy" as helpful as Christians (p = 0.016, Mean Rank = 129.11 and 97.60 respectively).
And I have found that to be true in thinking about our changing world, as well.
It is useful to remember something Albert Einstein once said: "The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking".
