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| The Innovation Network Network is not currently active and cannot accept new posts | Seeds Of Greatness Motivational Minute | Views: 540 | May 15, 2009 1:21 pm | | Seeds Of Greatness Motivational Minute | # | The Eagle: Motivating Champions Around The World | |
"What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers."
Martin Horner
Choose to be unstoppable!
Richard "The Eagle" Motivator Live and Act Like a Champion Today!! http://www.TheEaglesNest.net http://twitter.com/TheSoaringEagle Private Reply to The Eagle: Motivating Champions Around The World | May 15, 2009 3:59 pm | | re: Seeds Of Greatness Motivational Minute | # | Ken Hilving | | I wonder if Martin was sure about this. ;-) Private Reply to Ken Hilving | May 19, 2009 12:42 am | | re: Seeds Of Greatness Motivational Minute | # | Joseph Lynders | | ??????????????????????????~~~~~~---?
"What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers." - Martin Horner
Mr. Martin Horner's second sentence renders the three points of his first sentence meaningless.
WHY WOULD ANYONE DO THAT?
I run into a lot of this these days. I don't know if it is a new thing or just something I overlooked until recently.
05/18/09 Joseph F. Lynders FTg/M/TPrivate Reply to Joseph Lynders | May 19, 2009 3:33 am | | re: re: Seeds Of Greatness Motivational Minute | # | Ken Hilving | | Actually, I believe the quote belongs to Martina Horner. She was president of Radcliffe College 40 years ago. Her comments were likely in regard to learning, and a recognition that there is more we don't really understand in all fields of study than there are certain answers.
Tolerance of ambiguity allows us to advance our knowledge even in the face of uncertainty. Good advice for personal happiness, as well as for following a particular line of reason as a working hypothesis that can be modified as new knowledge is gained.
But maybe it is flawed. Perhaps someone will share their collection of certain answers so that we might learn?Private Reply to Ken Hilving | May 20, 2009 2:28 am | | re: re: re: Seeds Of Greatness Motivational Minute | # | Joseph Lynders | | ?~~~~~~~~~~~----?
KH - Tolerance of ambiguity allows us to advance our knowledge even in the face of uncertainty. - KH
Tolerance of ambiguity seems to be more popular and more acceptable these days than tolerance of the truth.
If you tell me something that is the truth you can not expect any credit for it because after all it is true.
If you tell me something ambiguous you can expect full credit for it because you are the author of that ambiguity.
Ambiguity is politically correct these days and truth is not.
NOTE: The amount of truth is always smaller than the amount of untruth.
NOTE: If you just lower your standards low enough you can make almost any answer appear as a certain answer.
NOTE: Don't fall for it.
05/19/05 Joseph F. Lynders FTg/M/TPrivate Reply to Joseph Lynders | May 20, 2009 5:23 am | | re: re: re: re: Seeds Of Greatness Motivational Minute | # | Thomas Holford | | Joseph sayeth:
> If you tell me something that is the truth you can not expect any credit for it because after all it is true.
> If you tell me something ambiguous you can expect full credit for it because you are the author of that ambiguity.
> Ambiguity is politically correct these days and truth is not.
This is an interesting variation on a proposition that always seemed sensible to me but also seemed to fall into the category of "politically incorrect".
High-minded "good government" types always deplore "negative campaigning" during political campaigns. (In fact, that is the rationale for the McCain-Feingold campaign finance restrictions.)
But banning or suppressing "negative campaigning" creates an uneven playing field that disadvantages saints and favors scoundrels.
If there is nothing bad that can be said about a saintly politician running for office, then there is no purpose in banning "negative campaigning".
If there are lots of embarrassing scandals and misconduct that can be disclosed about a politician who is a scoundrel, banning "negative campaigning" rely deprives voters of "truth".
Banning negative campaining is an instance of ambiguity (or circumspection) being favored over truth.
T. G. Holford
Private Reply to Thomas Holford | May 20, 2009 11:11 am | | re: re: re: re: re: Seeds Of Greatness Motivational Minute | # | John Stephen Veitch | | We need each of us to understand what "truth" is, because in our understanding of that, the definition of "who I am" becomes significant. If truth doesn't exist, nothing you believe has any meaning, your whole life is nonsensical.
None of us believe that. So for each of us "truth" exists, but for each of us, it's a different thing. Hence, each of us can be defined by the sort of things we believe in, especially the ultimate truths that we would go to great effort to defend.
What would you protect even under torture? Is there anything you believe worth dying for?
I wouldn't walk to the corner to defend the existence of God, but some people here believe their religious faith stands at the core of their lives. However, I'm a very religious person, in the sense that I believe in a set of worthy principles that should apply to my life and to every human life. Principles often acknowledged in statements made by individuals, but dishonoured by the action's people take.
In Science, the application of scientific principles depends on believing that these principles are "true". But in science all truth is provisional, any single experiment, correctly performed that contradicts the science we thought "true", destroys that version of truth.
Even so as Thomas Khun explained, scientists are generally unable to accept revisions of the truth, in their own field, that occur in their own lifetime. Once you have committed to a belief, changing it is incredibly hard, even when faced with the strongest (scientific) evidence.
I have a lot of experience that tells me that it takes 10 years to change your mind. No amount of evidence presented now, will convince you that anything you currently believe is false. It can't be done.
But it is possible for you to learn. It is also possible for you to learn the opposite of what you currently believe is in fact "true".
The route is long and torturous. You must begin with the understanding Joseph has been focused on. All the things you know are provisional truths. You can explore them and you can change them and while your ideas may change, YOU, continue to be YOU. Changing your mind doesn't destroy the person you are. (With some of our most deeply held beliefs that is a real fear.)
Now you must seek to collect your own evidence. 1% of real evidence from your own life, real, hard won, grounded, personal experience, is more valuable than 99% of other people's opinions, gained from books or forums like this. Your life, fuels your search for truth. Other people's opinions help you to give what you've discovered perspective.
I'm keen on writing down both your own experience, and the best of other people's opinions. Re-reading what you wrote 10 or 20 years ago is another way to give you perspective. There are many cases in my journal where ideas I had 20 years ago that I distrusted, that were contrary to my education, or my family culture, are now validated by my own life experience and personal development.
http://www.openfuture.co.nz/services/success.html http://www.openfuture.co.nz/services/success.htm (printable)
I'm particularly disappointed to discover that much of the education I struggled so hard to acquire, taught me a great deal of stuff that years later I needed to unlearn. To this day, that process is only partly accomplished. The current economic meltdown has been very helpful in this process.
I also had some pretty stupid ideas many years ago. Sometimes I can't believe that it was me who wrote this stuff. I have no memory of it at all. Nothing. But it's in the book. The mind plays amazing tricks.
John Stephen Veitch Open Future Limited - http://www.openfuture.biz/ Innovation Network - http://veech-network.ryze.com/ Building an Open Future - http://openfuture-network.ryze.com/Private Reply to John Stephen Veitch | |
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