Fwd: RE: [Ailist] Suggestions Please

[liz workman]

Hi Andy,
I just talked to Jane Watkins and thought this may help you with your 
provacative
props. When you ask for the dreams the  language is important.
After the Image ,story, the wording may lead to more exciting Pro props.
I just picked up your conversation from Billie so I may be off on 
your question, if not
hope this helps.
Peace
Liz Workman
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>Dear Francis and colleagues: I really like the notion of asking people about
>their dreams. I've been pondering the brain sciences a bit lately and here's
>the addition I make to the questions.... If we say, "What is your dream for
>this company," what we will likely get is the left brain answer that is also
>more likely to be similar to a list. I'm even pondering the notion idea that
>in our left brains, we only know what we already know. Sooooo, when we ask
>people about dreams , be sure to introduce the questions with stuff that
>evokes images, stories, and such so that we help them access the right
>brain, home of our creativity and imagination. Since the left brain has
>language and the right doesn't, it's important to evoke for them the images
>and creative notions of their most desired future. So from "What does your
>dream job LOOK like" does the trick. It evokes images. Tell me a story;
>describe a time; etc. Just something I've been thinking about because it
>comes up in our teaching quite regularly. There really is an "art" to AI
>questions after all! It's sort of like if you can dream it, you can do it!
>And to quote our President elect: "Yes you can!"
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