Wheatley Dialog LO10363

Carol Sager (sagerent@world.std.com)
Mon, 07 Oct 1996 13:06:05 -0400

Replying to LO10352 --

Thanks Rol

Spontaneous thoughts that occur spurred by your considerations- Most of
this discussion seems to rest on a presumed linear & cumulative path to
"seeing", growth, change, etc. What if "seeing" is even more
multi-dimensional, geometric,exponential, beyond what we currently know?
beyond holistic? In this context pushing one's own boundaries seems to
imply consideration of the possibility & interconnections that exists
among all things and learning will result from such deliberation.

I love the possibilities of your other point noted below. Again it
challenges our thinking because we've been taught that there is no freedom
without rules (rights & wrongs). The other thought is that every strength
, carried to an extreme can become a weakness. But since learning is more
than thinking(it is defined as a change in behavior) maybe in discussing
what helps/hinders learning we should divide the question in 2-what
helps/hinders generation of ideas & what helps/hinders action.

Rol Fessenden wrote:

> Sherri, in LO10335 said,
> "I am wondering if we have to change the way we "see". The custom of
> breaking things apart is so inherent in our *natural order* of seeing
> things. I am thinking about Carol Sager's comments about right and wrong
> too. It seems as if we are so quick to judge things, compatmentalize them
> in order to understand. Maybe the kind of seeing required to be more
> holistic means pushing our own boundaries"

> Which immediately made me wonder, if we do not judge (judge is not
> intended negatively, but as in assess), then we have no mechanism to
> compartmentalize, nor can we 'see' or identify our own boundaries. Does> this free us, or does this prevent learning?

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