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I know it has passed though your consciousness that all static patterns of value can be replaced by 42. :-) Marsha On Sep 19, 2012, at 7:46 AM, Jan Anders Andersson wrote: > Marsha, like > > > 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 ___ 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
