HERO U — A New Framework for Knowledge Heroes

Oliver Ding
CALL4
Published in
17 min readJun 26, 2020

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Knowing is a hard thing. Getting significant outcomes from knowing is a challenge. It is like climbing mountains. Once you reach the top of the mountain, the world unfolds in a different view.

This article introduces a concept called Knowledge Heroes and provides Knowledge Heroes a framework for closing the gap between “Theory” and “Practice”.

Contents

1 Becoming A Knowledge Hero
2 When Theory Meets Practice
3 The HERO U Framework
4 Objects of Knowing
5 Construal Level: Abstract and Concrete
6 Concept: Semiotic Potentials
7 The Curse of Concept
8 Personal Conditions of Knowing
9 Kinds of Knowing
10 Boundary as Opportunity
11 CALL for Action

1. Becoming A Knowledge Hero

Five years ago, I worked on a project called Knowledge Brand and my client is an innovative psychologist who is an expert on ecological psychology, personality psychology, and innovation psychology. He is not a normal scholar because he developed several theories and used these as guides to invent many patented tools and…

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Oliver Ding
CALL4

Founder of CALL(Creative Action Learning Lab), information architect, knowledge curator.