Agents Of Change?
Change is all around us. We hear the voices tell us to manage change, to adapt to change, to change our perspectives or to ignore the small change. But all that is guff. Change cannot be managed within the finity of human experience. Theory shows a million (well, at least 12000) ways to describe the management of change - but that is all: description, not prescription.
Human leadership and ingenuity rides change, copes with change. But to manage change, to adapt to it, to change our perspectives... What would you say if you were a surfer and a pundit told you to manage the ocean, adapt to it, or view the ocean in a different way? What if that pundit told you that surfing was about managing the sea instead of letting it manage you? Or that you should lead the surf?
In all these things, there is only one constant. The universe changes. Its creator does not appear to; the creator is unchanging to the created because the creator is even larger than the sea is to the fish - or the ocean to the surfer.
Human leadership and ingenuity rides change, copes with change. But to manage change, to adapt to it, to change our perspectives... What would you say if you were a surfer and a pundit told you to manage the ocean, adapt to it, or view the ocean in a different way? What if that pundit told you that surfing was about managing the sea instead of letting it manage you? Or that you should lead the surf?
In all these things, there is only one constant. The universe changes. Its creator does not appear to; the creator is unchanging to the created because the creator is even larger than the sea is to the fish - or the ocean to the surfer.
etched with acid at 8:10:00 pm
5 Comments:
you seem to be implying that 'to adapt to', not to mention 'to manage', change is to try and somehow manipulate and control it; at least, that's what your analogy about the pundit and the surfer reflects.
i don't agree. i think adapting to change is just what it is. adapting yourself to it, not adapting the change to yourself, or imposing some arbitrary model upon the real world. when the waves change, you DO adapt to it by adjusting how you tackle the incoming waves, and in that sense you manage it, and view it in a different light.
i guess the creator is to the created what the table on the macroscopic level is to its individual atoms..
ERK.
1. The real world imposes on you, and adaptation is hardly ever a conscious choice, even when you think it is. That is the lesson of chaos theory. And no, you don't adapt to waves, you just think you do, until you realise you aren't a dolphin or a fish.
2. Bad creator analogy. Tables don't create their own atoms, tables aren't infinite, and creators don't consist of their creations.
/ERK.
*grin*
I think I'd thank the pundit for making me see things from a new angle.. It's always refreshing, isn't it? And then from his point of view plus your existing point of view, you come to a new conclusion, using it, until yet another pundit comes into your life, telling you yet another thing..
That's what growing and learning is about, I think - Changing our prespectives.
i din't mean it as a complete analogy, merely to illustrate your point that the creator doesn't appear to change to the created because it's too big. the table doesn't look like it changes, but, theoretically at least, we know its atoms do
i liked your lesson in code. As long as you are not irked wtih jenn.
better knowing and admitting your faults than never.
erk with a j is jerk.
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