patinador

Thanks for commenting the difference, but what would happen when people use rational thinking only to construct excuses, that is rationalization of what they do.

An example: I am a rational people, I will pick certain portion of reality that allow me to construct a good model of myself, with blind eyes for the part I don't want to see.

You can use "rational thinking" to construct rationalization of your behaviour.

Since there is no logical notion of justice, rational thinking and rationalization are not far away.

When things are going bad is not easy to change. It is easy to spend money, to borrow and to forget to pay taxes. But the other way round is another story, one to be written and not a gay one.

The motivation to visit your website is 17/200 $, so this is a crucial information. You can't use this sample for inference about the real population of readers or customers.

A better approach for those 200 people would be to ask them: i) who do you think would be interested in this site and why. ii) What other services are related to this one. iii) Can you tell a source of clients for this site?

Anyway, a crooked sample doesn't allow a straight thinking or inference. The number of people 200 is not related to the 17$.

Social networks are a new inhabitant in the web, so there are chances that a new way of interacting with people beat facebook, so keep making social networks, but not copying old ideas.

Rationality is over priced. Some experiments indicate that people use rationality to explain things they did, for example under hypnosis they suggest you should open your umbrella at a party, then you do it and try to explain why.

In this case rationality is a false distortion of what is going on. Living and thinking is at a higher level that rationality. We can use computers, logic, maths and rules to improve our rational mind, but thinking is much more that rational thinking. Creativity and emotions play a vital role. Destroy emotions and you loose your memory (citation required), because memorizing is linked to attention and attention is linked to emotions and feeling.

As a mathematician I can prove a theorem and give a prove, but there is something creative in finding a proof. Sometimes our mind is a wonderful mind.

Clear goals. Different goals require distinct methods to achieve them. College and University. Perhaps we need more ways to teach and educate people. Ideally one desire thinkers than can translate things into action, but while this is a goal, why don't we try to find the way to give every student the best way to build a good education?

You are right, Universities are not only for getting money or for making profits. Society should clarify what they want university to be, what is their goal. When the goal is well defined is time to think about the best method to pursue it. Money is one of the factors but not the only one.

  A place for knowledge, research and innovation is not a factory and can't be managed as such.

Reading this one could think that university is a good source for entrepreneurs. Credentials can become a signal that you are a capable people.