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Gaps in FLOS are to be designed into the
metasystem because they have a specific purpose of creating
tension and enabling design of scaffolding, development and
experience.
Jim said: A friend asked me why you
shouldn’t just close the “gap”. A partial response
below.
An analogy that might help. I
am a heavy user of my iphone. The battery is constantly
running down. The gap is ebbing and flowing…somewhere
between 0% and 100% charge. I have developed systems and
resources to manage this “gap”. (3 external batteries,
charger in car, plugins on all my computers, plugin by bed,
just ordered 5 new charging cords, etc). This gap
(draining battery) is a fairly continuous event in my life
every day. I suppose I could “close” it fully by just
getting rid of the phone. But then other gaps would
arise, etc.
The design above fits “me” fairly
well so I am able to manage this tension without much effort.
This level of options/redundancy is necessary for me because I
am not good at keeping organized and don’t like managing these
kinds of problems, so I have to design with some degree of
“overkill”.
Everywhere but the USA, I use my iphone
for txting, the common form of all communication.
In the USA, I seldom txt anyone but my kids...because
most just don’t txt or know how at my age<G>... Which is why I
got an iphone, it's easy to txt.<G>
Having the same problem as all heavy users of a
battery-powered device, I sit with a charging chord by my
chair for the ipad, I’m trying to learn and the iphone I use,
I also have chargers in my folio, but something I learned a
little while back, that is really my contribution...
...why not close the gap?
Because the battery needs to be fully discharged once per
month, at least in order to maintain it's capability over
time...
Now, that is a great metaphor of why you scaffold, but don't
close gaps...IMHO
Gap tension is the same tension that has us able to exchange
the air we breathe...without atmospheric gap, our
diaphragm-style breathing system wouldn't work, it requires a
gap, as does almost all life require the corresponding
tensions.
In the arrogance of our BS-inspired world, we actually think
that a gap is bad, to be closed, to be worked out, when in
fact, in a complex society, the gap is accountable for more
signal, than all the other sources combined!
GAPS ARE GOOD, and almost NEVER should be
closed, but scaffolded, bridged, or supported in ways that
allow us to continue to notice the gap.
In Happiness AND Success, we actually
MAKE a GAP on PURPOSE, and it is the gap that we hold open,
lest our ego seek to close us and head us in a non-EES vector.
Living with the gap is what helps us realize how
perfect we are, and how imperfect situations arise, creating a
gap between our fitness and our goals.
I will bet you a dime to a donut that a
person who knows their gap, notices how it ebbs and flows
across domains, is living more consciously, in spite of their
ego, rather than not.
And furthermore, the person who refuses
to close a gap, knowing that by doing so, they rob others of
the opportunity to support and scaffold, as well as knowing
they will be pulled out of flow and their strengths, is far
happier, than one who is constantly worried about where they
don't match up.
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