Dear At and LO-friends,
now I am back again after too many long weeks of absence. When I browse
though all the discussions since end of July I realise what I realy
missed. But to make effective contact with what I missed would tie me to
the past while I need to create today. An example for:
>Not all effective contacts are favourable. Nature is full of warnings
>against effective contacts.
With this, I am wondering how fruitfulness can be impaired. It is more
like a valve for creativity, a control unit for entropy production. The
effective contact with a lion in the desert is an example how more entropy
would be produced than I could cope with.
May be the clue is in the second part of the seminal name: beget.
Effective contacts need to be timed and arranged in a way, that they have
the power to beget something new. Too many or too less or too intense
effective contacts thus would impair fruitfulness: connect yes, but beget
no..
"Semi-effective contacts" is an expression, that jumped into my mind, when
I thought about fruitfulness. At, once you wrote that one should complete
ones past uncompleted creations. This has also to do with the power to
decide. An example: When I look at my desk, I find it full with papers
which connect more or less with one or the other issue, that could be
important. I would call my relation to this mess a semi-effective contact.
I never learnt to deal with this effectively (which means I guess: to
decide to make or make not contact). There are three aspects to this for
me: 1.) It hurts physically to try to get an order into it. 2.) There is
too much I am not at least interested in, but that belongs to my job, and
it is unsure whether I will have to deal with it or not later. Only 10%
become urgent some time. 3.) I tend to make things more complex that
appropriate in a given situation.
Can anybody give me a hint, how I could learn about fruitfulness by means
of dealing with all these semi-effective contacts? This may be similar to
complete past creations?
Thank you,
Winfried
--"Winfried Dressler" <winfried.dressler@voith.de>
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