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I'll start off with a quote on
"third places" to get to third spaces?
"Oldenburg identifies third places,
or “great good places,” as the public places on neutral ground
where people can gather and interact. In contrast to first
places (home) and second places (work), third places allow
people to put aside their concerns and simply enjoy the
company and conversation around them. Third places “host the
regular, voluntary, informal, and happily anticipated
gatherings of individuals beyond the realms of home and work.”
Oldenburg suggests that beer gardens, main streets, pubs,
cafés, coffeehouses, post offices, and other third places are
the heart of a community’s social vitality and the foundation
of a functioning democracy. They promote social equality by
leveling the status of guests, provide a setting for
grassroots politics, create habits of public association, and
offer psychological support to individuals and communities." -
Ray Oldenburg, PhD
In a quite search at google, I ran
across this note and philosophy from Oldenburg, who created
the ideas about third space, and since I'm more acutely
attuned these days to things that you don't have to buy, but
are designed for you, I relished the idea of the third place,
as a true third space.
In developmental coaching, there
was an idea I heard once about the third space, not MY space,
not YOUR space, but this emergent third space that somehow we
could open "between" us and it would belong to us, but neither
one of us.
In my view, this idea has always
had a place in trying to help people understand the objective
realm of designing FLOW.
In Happiness AND
Success, there is a third space, or
gap, between them that fully emerges
IMHO, as the design space.
For instance, if my happiness is
inborn, and success reflective of an objective model, where in
most cases, I've had nothing to do with it...the only space
that doesn't belong to anything pre-ordained is the third
space of design between Happiness AND Success.
IF, I can accept that there is
nothing I should do with either, then identifying what is in
that space and designing a life there, might be an important
part of FLOW, or at least the equation, algorithms and design
of FLOW.
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