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"Patterns are everywhere, and all
have consequences, some favorable, others unfavorable...our
goal might be in FLOS to encourage and feed those patterns
with favorable consequences, and to discourage and starve
those patterns with unfavorable consequences."
As we move into FLOW, we are going
to experience a lot of patterns. Some people call these
habits, others call them perhaps beliefs, or assumptions, or
programs, or whatever.
I have come to like the nature of
patterns, as I do believe that fits with how we think, our
thoughts, and how our language emerges, and our behaviors as
well, emerge as patterns.
Consequences are also really valid
ways of trying to stay away from right and wrong.
Value judgments, like good and bad,
and factual judgments like right and wrong, are often fleeting
in a variable and complex world. Because just when we
felt something good, or thought something was right, sure
enough, downstream, it wasn't like we thought.
So, I married these two ideas, or
concepts, or structures together, and they seem to work for me
as patterns first, and then their consequences second, and the
combinatorial effects third.
I believe we can all begin to look
at patterns. That is why we do assessments, to understand or
discover what patterns are running in us, how we learn, manage
conflict, prefer to behave, are motivated, what strengths we
have, and what patterns or programs we have running in and
around us. The patterns and the consequences of these
patterns is important to value and judge, both in terms of how
they relate to happiness and do we get more of what we need in
the process, or at least enough at our virtue points, and how
these patterns map to our success requirements or not in and
over time.
For me, it's simplicity on the
other side of complexity, to think about engagement with these
patterns, and the acceptance process that emerges, and how
that leads us to encourage and feed those patterns that
generate favorable consequences and starve and discourage
those that are not generating favorable consequences.
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