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Thanks for the link, even if it's just hypothetical..:-) J A, sort of... 19 sep 2012 kl. 11.37 skrev MarshaV: > > > > An American businessman was visiting a Mexican coastal village and > encountered a fisherman on the dock. He had just unloaded his stash of tuna > for the day, and the businessman asked him how long it took him to catch > them. > > The fisherman said, “Just a little while.” > > The businessman then asked why he didn’t stay out longer and catch more, to > which the fisherman responded he didn’t need more. He had caught enough for > his family’s needs. > > “But what do you do now, with all the rest of your time?” asked the > businessman. > > “I take a nap, I play with my children, take siesta with my wife, Maria, and > I walk to the village in the evening, sip a little wine, and play music with > my friends,” said the fisherman. > > The American scoffed. “I am a Harvard MBA and could help you. You should > spend more time fishing and with the proceeds buy a bigger boat. With the > proceeds from the bigger boat, you could buy a fleet of boats and open your > own cannery. You would control the product, processing, and distribution. You > would need to leave this small village and move to Mexico City, then Los > Angeles, and eventually New York, where you would run your expanding > enterprise.” > > When the fisherman asked how long all that would take, the businessman said, > “Fifteen to twenty years. And then you could sell your company stock to the > public and become a millionaire.” > > “But what then?” asked the fisherman. > > “Then you could retire, move to a coastal fishing village, fish a little, > nap a lot, play with your kids, enjoy time with your wife, and go to the > village at night to play music with your friends.” > > > This is an example of how our assumptions tumble out of us, beckoned or not. > We enter into a situation, assess it from our own personal worldview, and > generously offer suggestions for improvement that were never invited in the > first place. In The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge writes: “Mental models are > deeply ingrained assumptions that influence how we understand the world and > how we take action. We do not “have” mental models. We “are” our mental > models…The discipline of working with mental models starts with turning the > mirror inward; learning to unearth our internal pictures of the world, to > bring them to the surface and hold them rigorously to scrutiny.” > > > (Phillips, Jan, 'The Art of Original Thinking – The Making of a Thought > Leader') > > http://www.janphillips.com/downloads/ArtofOriginalThinking.pdf > > > Marsha: > I see "mental models" very close to "static patterns of value". The last > sentence in the above also sets forward a working solution. It is not to > merely accept the thoughts flowing through our consciousness as 'real' or > 'true', (whether that be a "creative self", "the pragmatic theory of truth" > or "truth is an idea which represents experience beautifully"). That's the > NAIVE reality accepted by human beings that Lila points to in Chapter 14. > I'll take holding static pattens of value as hypothetical (supposed but not > neccesarily real or true) any day of the week, rather than be one that would > act destructively to prove their world-view to be the "correct one" and use > foece to have everyone else accept it. It's analogy, boys, merely analogy; > you do not hold some objective truth. You talk about the MoQ's new > conception of truth, yet defend it like it is absolute. > > > > > > > > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
