[MD] just fishing

[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:

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> Thanks for the link, even if it's just hypothetical..:-)
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> J A, sort of...
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> 19 sep 2012 kl. 11.37 skrev MarshaV:
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>> 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. 
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>> The fisherman said, “Just a little while.” 
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>> 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. 
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>> “But what do you do now, with all the rest of your time?” asked the businessman. 
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>> “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. 
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>> 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.” 
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>> 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.” 
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>> “But what then?” asked the fisherman. 
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>> “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.”
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>> 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.”
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>> (Phillips, Jan, 'The Art of Original Thinking – The Making of a Thought Leader')
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>> http://www.janphillips.com/downloads/ArtofOriginalThinking.pdf 
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>> 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.  
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