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I was inspired to write this TPOV from a
discussion that was precipitated by Emergence, and a question
by a valued discussion member who will remain anonymous;) and
my answer in a TPOV @F-L-O-W: EMERGENICS where I began with
the following idea:
I think you have to:
back up to go forward,
speed up to slow down...
look into the rear view mirror to steer...
and if that is confusing, welcome to emergenics...
There is an important TPOV here and let me see if I can make
it "simple enough" to be understood;).
Skip to the bottom to Helpful Hint 2, if you are in a hurry,
as I finally was able to say most of what I needed to say
there, without sharing the extraversion necessary for me to
get there and some mind find contextual, interesting or
helpful!
Context: When people ask me to explain something, I am always
reminded of Einstein's' quote:
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not
simpler.”
However, most people make the claim that things should be
simple and miss the point being made, IMHO. The point is, make
things as simple as necessary, but if something is
complicated, don't oversimplify it! That might be the best
advice for EMERGENICS!
Here's a quote from a Bloomberg review [RANT] of
SuperCommunicator launched by Adam Stembergh called:
Stop Explaining Things: On Supercommunicator by Frank J.
Pietruch
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-05-29/stop-explaining-things-on-supercommunicator-by-frank-j-dot-pietrucha
"...Supercommunicator offers lots of handy nuggets, it’s the
quote from Einstein that persists as the true moral. He wasn’t
championing clarity as much as warning against an obsession
with simplicity that robs the subject of nuance, and thus
truth.
Pietrucha starts from the presumption that, in the Digital
Age, we live in an overly complex world we can barely
decipher. If anything, the opposite is true: Our world is in
danger of being oversimplified. Perhaps that’s what needs to
be communicated."
Helpful Hint: Simplicity is in the eye of the
beholder! It's NOT in the subject being explained.
Action Step: In order for someone to "grok"
an explanation, the explanation has to be at a level of
complexity most closely associated with the current "structure
of being, doing, having, becoming and contributing" related to
the person seeking understanding.
Dialogue: Let me start with an example using Einstein's quote:
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not
simpler.”
MOST people will take that quote to mean something in the
neighborhood of:
make things simple
people who make things complicated are violating Einstein's
quote's meaning
anything can be explained simply enough if you know what you
are talking about
the reason I don't understand is that you don't know how to
explain it
and so forth, there are a lot of hybridizations [see my TPOV
@F-L-O-W: Memetic Hybridization] available to the structure of
their thinking and feeling, as noted above BDHBC.
FEW people will see the quote as meaning:
explain things as simple as possible, but retain the essence,
the nuane, the subtlety of the meaning
some people, no matter how much you explain will understand it
the way it is to be understood
forget about simple, just do the best job you can at
explaining what you know
Why?
Because people are FRUSTRATED by things they can't understand,
and MORE IMPORTANT, people won't BUY INTO what they can't
understand, so if you have a vested interest in SELLING ANYONE
(to include influence for no monetary gain), you better make
sure they BUY INTO WHATEVERITIS @BS!
I always remember, next to Einstein's quote a quote from long
time New York Mayor Ed Koch:
"I can explain this to you; I can't comprehend it for you."
NOW WHAT?
Fortunately, over a tortured 2 decades of developmental
coaching, I have decided (on my own, hehe) that the path for
trying to help people understand begins with them, not me.
In other words, if I don't know what their capability is, what
biases are important to them, what style is likely to be in
sync with my view of things, and the level, role, values and
system they are representing, then I'm just advancing "pot
luck."
Even this view (mine) is too complex for people to understand!
So, as I thought about Emergenics--an idea I have about how
emergence plays a role in everyday life--much like Nassim
Taleb admonished in Fooled by Randomness (2005?), most people
do not want to work at learning (excepting those 1-5% who are
motivated to work at learning) and just construct their world
from their bias-guided experiences.
And final thought, in the TPOV Emergenics, I followed my entry
with:
"...one thing I did was "go back to what we know"..."
Helpful Hint 2: Once you understand what your
audience wants, then give it to them. If you can't give them
what they want, you won't have an audience!
Action Step 2: If you are like me, and you
see things differently, then be prepared to do your own work,
explain as best you can, but no simpler, and let the chips
fall where they may @F-L-O-W. Which means, if you can't help
enough other people get what they want, you can't have what
you want..." so you better get rid of most of your wants, find
out what you really need, which is likely to be directly
related to why you are being, doing, having, becoming and
contributing the way you are @F-L-O-W.
The secret:
Just in case you missed it?
Being @F-L-O-W serves humanity, as does BDHBC @BS, the choice
may NOT be yours, but just in case it is, you have options,
but they come with consequences which you have to decide you
are willing to accept.
Dialogue 2: What I try to do is keep in mind that people are
in different places, and if you decide to explain, then you
might have to go to where they are and work from there.
On the other hand, if you are trying to understand something,
it might take awhile for you to get to where you can grok the
explanation, which means inquiry, patience and the honoring of
self which is developing around you. It's taken me years to
understand some of these more complex concepts and I am not
yet fully at a level that I can explain what I "know" yet!
However, something that helps is to remember, if it's
important, then it will come back around and around and we
need to be open to NOT being able to understand, and still
start applying the concepts.
I have created a TPOV @F-L-O-W on PERSPECTIVE that I want to
refer you to:
http://www.flow.ph/2015/BmD/capability/capability3.html
[MyPAL grab, make TPOV and put in TPOV library please, and
then change the link in the library to the new TPOV:
Perspective]
What I am trying to get at, and I know most people gave up a
long time ago is this:
Find the level at which you are constructing meaning and
making sense from the meaning, and work from there, either
less complex in the case of explaining to those at different
level, or more complex if you are trying to understand at more
sophisticated levels than you.
Give your system a chance to fill in the blanks, and to learn
how to reach the simple, without losing the nuance, subtlety
and sophistication.
I'm certain that I have modeled the problem, which has
benefits, as of yet in the "process" of making the idea
simpler, and that is my parting wish...!
May the wind be at your back;)
The key for me is to add it to our
FLOW toolkit, because as we model Happiness AND Success
Overtime, it's really important, I mean really important to
model reality, even though the MODEL is NOT the territory, nor
is any map, just understanding the ramifications of decisions
we make can be incredibly helpful to design, scaffolding and
support.
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