Compassion & Sense of Beauty LO14872

Andrew Wong Hee Sing (andreww@petronas.com.my)
Mon, 8 Sep 1997 09:26:44 +0800

Replying to LO14859 --

(Thinking aloud as responses to Michael Gort's note,
for the purpose of shaking off some of my own
old mental models and looking for new ...)

Michael Gort <gort@mail.com> wrote:

"By the end of the week, I found all of my reflection and journal
entries focused on letting go of the view that the problem was
"out there". Increasingly, I accepted that I can control only my
own behavior, and even that is subject to unconscious desires
and motives."

Similar to saying : "The Problem is NOT out there!"
"The enemy is NOT out there!"

But it could also be a negative energy to manage if we turn
to "The Problem is in me (in us)", "The Enemy is
myself (ourselves)" in relation to orgnisational chaos,
un-systemic thinking etc.

"I began to understand that if I could improve a little at being
(instead of doing), I could help my group more than any amount of
improving my doing."

But "being" has no "I" i.e. "I" is just a negligible and
insignificant part of the whole universe, whole environment, whole
entity called organisation in which "I" have a little slot (CEO or
mere office boy). Why then "I could help my group" : implying some
extra power or superiority or "answer" to others, who are also
"beings". Maybe it is the "office boy" who could "help the CEO"!

What "mental model" will be a new insight for a better "being"?

Regards

Andrew Wong
Organisation Observer and Thinker
Homepage http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5621

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andreww@petronas.com.my (Andrew Wong Hee Sing)

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