Rick and all,
I wish to encourage anybody to make use of the possibilities of this list,
making three points, which are my way to say "Yes" to Ricks requests:
>Request #1.
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>Can we let this learning-org list be one place where we can be open
>enough to diversity to let everyone have their say, in the style, length and
>frequency that they choose?
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>Request #2.
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>If there is something you want discussed, please raise it.
A) Get in touch with your ideas on the ground of the ideas unfolding on
this list.
In the presented statistics, I was surprised to have "won" bronze with
respect to the number of mails to this list.
The LO-mailing list has become an intimate part of my personal and
professional life. The threads discussed on this list fit to what I like
to think about. So when I write, I just fetch the triggers and look what
become of them while writing. Often I want to make a point and arrive
somewhere else. Sometimes it makes me happy, sometimes I am very confused.
But being confused should not be an excuse not to send what I have
written. It is exactly then, when I hope for feedback most.
B) Don't become frustrated, when you don't get direct feedback.
It is amazing how much and how different feedback I do get. The feedback I
like most is of course the direct responses to one of my mails. But more
frequently, I notice how my ideas pop up, changed or unchanged, in other
contributions. I wrote "my ideas", but of course the ideas are not mine.
The ideas are potentially in the world and become manifest in the way many
people relate to them. Such patterns can be observed on this list.
I made the experience that releasing a question to the list will start a
process that will bring you the answer - on the list or somewhere else.
This list is of great help in finding and articulating important
questions.
C) One big obstacle to making use of the possibilities of this list by
writing may be, that you may think that a mail should meet some quality
standards, which you are afraid not to meet.
I can only encourage you not to care too much about such inner voices.
This list is a safe place to be. You can fully concentrate on your need.
Write what you need to write. But do it.
My writing is very often "theoretical" or "philosophical". I simply don't
like to repeat my daily working experiences in writing, although it may be
helpful for others. I am here to learn (my age is only 36) and to find
some ground through thinking and, if it evolves, through dialogue. As such
my writing is a complement to my working. It enhances understanding. But I
am afraid that I often don't take sufficient care for readers. I don't
know how to do better, so I am dependent on questions from readers. I wish
I would get more - especially when I wrote something which confuses me as
well.
My writing is often out of form. Too long and too short - too few words
for a much too big frame of content. Again, that is not friendly for
readers. But I allow for it, and as long as Rick distributes what I wrote,
I hope that it is still within limits. If I could write it all wellshaped
and balanced in form and content, I would write a book.
Liebe Gruesse,
Winfried
--"Winfried Dressler" <winfried.dressler@voith.de>
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