J-A,
Excellent! Please explain how you know perfection is boring? Isn't that bit-of-knowing a hypothetical? Or how is a comparison with what is "better than anything we know" known to you? Marsha On Sep 19, 2012, at 7:56 AM, Jan Anders Andersson <[email protected]> wrote: > No no no, there are 42 main directions, like Up, Down, South and Green, but > as you know, no one is perfect, and perfection is just too boring. > Excellence is still better than anything we know. > > J A > > > 19 sep 2012 kl. 13.50 skrev MarshaV: > >> >> J-A >> >> >> 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 > > 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
