I have suggested in this blog that the constructive activity of curating —- of laying out the elements of what we think and know and extracting a whole picture from the parts— is an essential movement in creative thought.

Sometimes, in a productive work team, a similar process occurs as multiple members’ contributions create a full data set to be mined through group interaction. More prosaically, we periodically encounter the same experience when we approach our basement  storage lockers. As we extract elements from its containers in an attempt to open up new storage space, we both reappraise the material treasures of our past in light of our present experiences and often take away new appreciations of our own history, in retrospect.

Returning to the blog, I wondered how different loggings, taken together, might reflect aspects of Accord’s perspective that had emerged in time; but had not been clearly noted. I wondered how the examination of blogs-past in light of the present would suggest avenues of thought once embedded in other thoughts— newly emergent in clear light.

I. The First Thought Experiment:
Reviewing “On Learning How”, I recognize the essential building block of RECEPTIVITY TO LEARNING. This involves both a willingness to make new sense of the world as well as an underlying freedom or capability— often blocked by fixed internal and organizational positions — which provide the illusion of security in an uncertain and turbulent environment.

I tracked examples of recent uncertainties to other posts: For example, In “Bridging Disciplines”, I looked at the limitations we impose in thinking about the world through the authorized lenses of our professional disciplines; and suggested that only through a cross-disciplinary approach to individuals and the organizational challenges in which they find themselves are we capable both of locating the problems that must be addressed; as well as feeling our way incrementally toward solution. In this way, as consultants, we are able to creatively utilize both experience and professional methodology together with other consultants, in seeing what we had not seen before.

More focal indices of turbulence were reflected in “Happy Days R Here Again”, where I address my own position of confusion in trying to understand what kind of economic downturn we are in; in “Spinning the Wheel Faster”, I look at pseudo-rationality in relation to our economic understanding of shareholder risk and liability—again trying to puzzle out what’s going on within our economic world and how we make sense of it.

In the post immediately preceding “Spinning the Wheel”, I address millenials’ rejection of the academic and intellectual histories my generation has so assiduously followed: perhaps this was the precursor to my later thinking about intellectual silos. What I saw in this “mash-up” was two dimensional: 1) the reduction of ideas to their pure pragmatic utility; and 2) with that compression, my own recognition of the effects of the immediate present and short-term upon the action plans that follow our thoughts.

That’s enough for this blog. Where I think I’m headed here, is toward a utilitarian consulting approach to understanding direct, present experience across different psychological engagements with changing internal and external environments— from psychotherapy to organizational consultation; and the usefulness of action steps toward defining our changing psychological situations. More on that next time.

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