[OSList] Learn Like Children -- in Open Space

[Adriana Díaz-Berrio]

I l'île it!
I lime children to, a lot 

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> Le 2014-06-04 à 11:13, "Harrison Owen" <hhowen at verizon.net> a écrit :
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> David Brooks, a favorite New York Times columnist wrote a marvelous piece on the confusing world we live in aided and abetted by our own lack of focus. As we multi-task our way to the future, tweeting and face booking into the trivia of daily life, learning in any deep and useful sense virtually disappears.   And the remedy? David suggests learning from those creatures who learn prodigiously: Children. He uses the work of a Child Psychologist by the name of Phillips as a guide.  I have quoted a bit of it below, and it will probably make a little more sense if you substitute “Passion” for “terrifying longing.” Childlike, Yes,  and it sounds like Open Space to me.
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> Harrison
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> You can read the whole thing by going to http://nyti.ms/1kyFJgx
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> “The way to discover a terrifying longing is to liberate yourself from the self-censoring labels you began to tell yourself over the course of your mis-education. These formulas are stultifying, Phillips argues: “You can only recover your appetite, and appetites, if you can allow yourself to be unknown to yourself. Because the point of knowing oneself is to contain one’s anxieties about appetite.”
> Thus: Focus on the external objects of fascination, not on who you think you are. Find people with overlapping obsessions. Don’t structure your encounters with them the way people do today, through brainstorming sessions (those don’t work) or through conferences with projection screens.
> Instead look at the way children learn in groups. They make discoveries alone, but bring their treasures to the group. Then the group crowds around and hashes it out. In conversation, conflict, confusion and uncertainty can be metabolized and digested through somebody else. If the group sets a specific problem for itself, and then sets a tight deadline to come up with answers, the free digression of conversation will provide occasions in which people are surprised by their own minds.
> The information universe tempts you with mildly pleasant but ultimately numbing diversions. The only way to stay fully alive is to dive down to your obsessions six fathoms deep. Down there it’s possible to make progress toward fulfilling your terrifying longing, which is the experience that produces the joy.”
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