Category: "Systems Thinking"
A Partial Summary
Although the entries in this blog are sporadic and are not following any particular pattern there are a few themes that run through them and which recur in different posts. I'm just thinking that it might be as well to provide a bit of a summary and a few links to enable easier browsing between related posts.
Categories: Welcome, Philosophical, Systems Thinking, Friends, Complexity, Learning, Cognition, Worldview, ----------
Someone Is Pulling The Strings Again
In previous posts I wrote about the way in which I have "re-interpreted" an East Asian belief regarding the "Red String of Fate". It is time to revisit the idea and to write a bit more - expanding the original thoughts and considering just what we are "tied" to.
Categories: Philosophical, Systems Thinking, Friends, Complexity, Cognition, Worldview, ----------
Doing and Fixing
As someone who is, by nature, destined to ponder on "why" it is no real surprise that I often find myself analysing my own thought processes - certainly a road to eternal recursion - thinking about thinking about thinking about....
Categories: Philosophical, Systems Thinking, Decision Making, Cognition, Worldview, ----------
On Encouraging Serendipity
There is a discussion on LinkedIn at present about the inadequacies of the "linkedIn format" when it comes to what I shall term "constructive discourse" - by that I mean that something is "created" as a result of the discussion.
Categories: Philosophical, Systems Thinking, Knowledge Management, Web, Complexity, Worldview, ----------
What Is Going To Happen Tomorrow
Wouldn't it be awful if we knew! Yes, there are some things that we can say will (almost certainly) happen - but for the most part tomorrow is a mystery - and all of our tomorrows after that! I may be wrong, but if we knew everything that was ever going to happen in advance it would take all the fun out of each and every experience.
Categories: Philosophical, Systems Thinking, Worldview, ----------
Eudaimonia
Yep - this is a word I had never seen before as well - yes - perhaps that is a reflection on my 'ignorance' as testified by the title of the blog, since Eudaimonia is, in fact, the highest ideal for a good life according to Aristotle.
Categories: Philosophical, Systems Thinking, Cognition, Worldview, Books, ----------
Inspiration Comes from Many Sources
It is past time that I wrote something which is about a topic separate from my current medical issues!! Otherwise it might seem like that is the only thing on my mind - which is far from the truth. OK - it does tend to dominate - particularly at some times during the cycle - but there are plenty of other things occupying my mind.
Categories: Philosophical, Systems Thinking, Complexity, Cognition, Worldview, ----------
On Receiving News You Did Not Want To Hear
When I started writing these blog entries I had no idea what the precise nature of the content would be - in some cases it was a subject matter that has occupied my thoughts for a long time; in some it was something that I felt I needed to just understand my own thoughts; and in some - like this one - the subject matter is something that I just did not expect!!
Categories: Philosophical, Systems Thinking, Friends, Worldview, Health, ----------
Pulling Those Threads Tight
In the two previous posts, The Red Thread and Making Connections, I wrote about the connections we have with other people and how there seems to often be an inexplicably strong connection to some - manifesting itself in the way that our lives constantly intertwine. Typical of this is, of course, family connections - these are to be expected. It is inevitable that we interact with other members of our family - even if that is only at births, marriages and funerals!!
Categories: Philosophical, Systems Thinking, Friends, Worldview, ----------
The Red Thread
Some of my earliest blog entries dealt with some thoughts of mine about friends - closeness of friendship and the fact that there are just a few people in anyone's life who become intricately entwined in that life. As my ideas are developing in that area (and in all other areas of course) it now strikes me that fundamental to the friendships are connections - and this also sits well with my later amendment that whilst I started out talking about friends the 'closeness' attribute also applied to enemies!
Categories: Philosophical, Systems Thinking, Friends, Worldview, ----------
