[Ailist] RE: What You Think upon Grows

[Bruce Elkin]

> The paradox of AI is while it is promoting the positive aspects of
> life, making them visible, an AI process starts with a (perceived)
> problem.
> 
> The problem with the problem is, as you say, that you can look upon it
> in different ways. You have to mind your own reality. So the question
> is: what is the most constructive and energising way?
> 
> Let me tell you a story: many years ago I met an inventor
> participating in a creativity training. I was never able to figure out
> why he needed this course. During the week of the training he kept
> reiterating to any who wanted to hear: what is a problem? I don't know
> from where it came, but suddenly I heard myself saying: it's a
> deviation from a goal (that we are not aware of because we don't think
> of it that way). He  stopped silent. Thanks, he muttered and
> disappeared. The rest of the week he kept silent. At the end of the
> course, when parting, he said to me: I will remember you for what you
> said. Thank you.
> 
> Since then I don't see a problem the same way myself. The problem with
> the problem is to find "the goal", i e the (positive) dream buried in
> the problem. So I think, in this case, as in other cases, AI does not
> have a problem with problems: you can appreciate them, as they contain
> traces of our dreams. So "we are back on track". Or as somebody said
> in an earlier post (a clip) citing Cooperider... "You can¹t just
> ignore them or deny them. You have to look at them as aspects of
> current reality, and accept them, *appreciate them as raw material out
> of which you can create what you truly want to create.*"
> 
>   In this  way in change processes it is possible to stay focused on
> the visionary side so that when consistently acting towards the
> visions we may change....
> 
> By the way: what is ToP?
> 
> Best,
> Leif Stenudd
> Stockholm
> Sweden


Great post, Leif!  And a great teaching story. I love it. Thanks!
Also the explanation is very elegant.
Cheers!
Bruce
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