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> Le 2014-06-04 à 11:13, "Harrison Owen" <[email protected]> a écrit : > > David Brooks, a favorite New York Times columnist wrote a marvelous piece on > the confusing world we live in aided and abetted by our own lack of focus. As > we multi-task our way to the future, tweeting and face booking into the > trivia of daily life, learning in any deep and useful sense virtually > disappears. And the remedy? David suggests learning from those creatures > who learn prodigiously: Children. He uses the work of a Child Psychologist by > the name of Phillips as a guide. I have quoted a bit of it below, and it > will probably make a little more sense if you substitute “Passion” for > “terrifying longing.” Childlike, Yes, and it sounds like Open Space to me. > > Harrison > > You can read the whole thing by going to http://nyti.ms/1kyFJgx > > ************************************* > > “The way to discover a terrifying longing is to liberate yourself from the > self-censoring labels you began to tell yourself over the course of your > mis-education. These formulas are stultifying, Phillips argues: “You can only > recover your appetite, and appetites, if you can allow yourself to be unknown > to yourself. Because the point of knowing oneself is to contain one’s > anxieties about appetite.” > Thus: Focus on the external objects of fascination, not on who you think you > are. Find people with overlapping obsessions. Don’t structure your encounters > with them the way people do today, through brainstorming sessions (those > don’t work) or through conferences with projection screens. > Instead look at the way children learn in groups. They make discoveries > alone, but bring their treasures to the group. Then the group crowds around > and hashes it out. In conversation, conflict, confusion and uncertainty can > be metabolized and digested through somebody else. If the group sets a > specific problem for itself, and then sets a tight deadline to come up with > answers, the free digression of conversation will provide occasions in which > people are surprised by their own minds. > The information universe tempts you with mildly pleasant but ultimately > numbing diversions. The only way to stay fully alive is to dive down to your > obsessions six fathoms deep. Down there it’s possible to make progress toward > fulfilling your terrifying longing, which is the experience that produces the > joy.” > > > Winter Address > > 7808 River Falls Drive > Potomac, MD 20854 > 301-365-2093 > > Summer Address > > 189 Beaucaire Ave. > Camden, ME 04843 > 207-763-3261 > > Websites > > www.openspaceworld.com > www.ho-image.com > > OSLIST To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of > OSLIST Go > to:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org
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