Glacier Replying to LO25582
At, I sincerely thank you for replying to my "creative collapse" query.
When I first read the term, I read into it as two separate words instead
of one term (an oxymoron). I wrote to you because I was puzzled by the
thought of a human or natural system creating something that would
collapse. My mental models and learning patterns led me to "compare" or
"translate" what I didn't know or understand into something familiar to
me; hence, the river example. Reflecting back, I can see that I failed to
look beyond the essence of the term. I used the word "creative" as an
input and "collapse" as an output. Hence, I could only produce negative
results; irrespective of the system's organization.
I feel I understand now how a creative collapse can be beneficial to a
system. I see your example of the woman feeding her child as not about
hunger, but about wellness. She served her child well by satisfying its
hunger, and in turn, her feeding her child served her well in comfort and
love. By splitting the food, her well-being and that of her child's could
not have reached as high a level as it did by providing only the child
with food.
I promise to reflect further on my own experiences and report back to you
with examples. Thank you again for helping me learn.
Warmest regards,
Bill
-- Bill Hancy Student, Johns Hopkins Fellows in the Management of Change Johns Hopkins University Columbia, Maryland USA wthancy@home.comLearning-org -- Hosted by Rick Karash <Richard@Karash.com> Public Dialog on Learning Organizations -- <http://www.learning-org.com>
"Learning-org" and the format of our message identifiers (LO1234, etc.) are trademarks of Richard Karash.