Water Logic

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Comment by William Jack Jordan on August 22, 2011 at 10:25

There is an Aesops fable about the reed and the oak. The oak berates the reed for yielding to the slightest breeze. Along comes a mighty storm and the reed survives, but the oak is uprooted.

Comment by Sinclair McLay on August 21, 2011 at 13:54

Hi Adonis, great link. In fact Franis came up with a similar idea commenting on an old blog of mine on this site - Raising The Maldives.

Comment by William Jack Jordan on September 20, 2010 at 9:40

No, ive read about water logic in "I am right, you are wrong" though.

And what a wave!

Comment by William Jack Jordan on July 18, 2010 at 9:45

Anthony, I love your pictures.

Comment by Free Willy on July 3, 2010 at 3:45

I once read a book called ‘How to Succeed in Business by Breaking All the Rules’ by Dan S. Kennedy. What I understand from the book is that rules (similar to patterns) are created by people and the outcomes became predictable when one followed the rules. To improve your performance, you need to break the rules (patterns). From what I understand, creativity is the only way to break the rules.

When I read the first few chapters of ‘Lateral Thinking for Management’ few days ago, I noticed the similarity between patterns and rules described by both authors. But edb’s book offers more in-depth details into how to break the patterns thru switching between vertical thinking and lateral thinking spontaneously to reach a better solution within a specified time frame.

The other issue is whether the new rules (patterns) are beneficial to the whole. I say ‘whole’ not ‘individual’ because in one way or another someone will be adversely affected by the new rules. My view on this issue goes deeper than ethics or moral. It’s ‘value-added’. The sum as a whole is positive and much, much greater than those affected by the new rules. If you base on ethics, we will not have any progress at all as somewhere down the line someone will be affected – so ‘no do = no progress’.

There is no hard and fast rule on this issues – whether it is ‘value-added creativity’ or ‘egocentric creativity’. The former gather more respects than later. But egocentric person still have their own fans.