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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Christine Koehler
[mailto:christine.koehler@wanadoo.fr] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, March 01, 2007
10:02 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Christine Whitney Sanchez<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Fwd: [Fwd:
personal polishing]]<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>Christine,<BR><BR>could you post this message to me on the OS list ?
I tried Michael Herman's suggestion to send it with another account, but for
some unknown (of me) reasons, I didn't manage to subscribe to the list with
another adress.. I give up for today.<BR>Thanks for your help <BR>christine
<BR><BR>-------- Message original --------<BR><BR>I would like to share with you
a post that came on another list I belong to (permission to post ). It says so
much about Open Space..<BR>Christine Koehler<BR><BR>-------- Message original
--------<BR><BR><PRE>To add a bit to Chris post on our mixing and blending and
polishing of ideas - Chris mentioned that great scientific discoveries
were often made in isolation - I wish to respectfully disagree. Coming
from a background in basic science, I remember balking when my advisor
wanted me to go to the Society for Neuroscience meeting. I mean,
25,000 neuroscientists in a crowded conference hall? Each
egotistically touting their own research? What was the point?
Well - I went, and now I know why we have meetings. You wander around
in a daze, looking at posters, overhearing conversations, and
occasionally something piques your interest and you start a
conversation. And - the greatest new ideas and innovations come from
these seemingly random encounters. Ideas you never would have thought
to try seem to come at you from thin air! The simple act of getting
people with common interests together in a physical space (or virtual
space, like Lactnet) takes all of us into new realms, introduces new
ways of thinking about things, in a way that literature searches and
courses of study could never do.
That said - this is a veiled plug for all of us to do whatever we can
to get to meetings and symposia whenever possible. This is where the
real learning takes place - not in the lectures or presentations, but
in the discussions after, the meeting of minds!
Hooray for the process!
That's it for today's Sunday morning ramble...
Kirsten Berggren, PhD, CLC
<A class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated href="http://www.workandpump.com">www.workandpump.com</A>
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