Comments on: When was the last time you really looked at a flower? http://blog.acumenfund.org/2006/03/01/when-was-the-last-time-you-really-looked-at-a-flower/ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:49:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Servant of Chaos http://blog.acumenfund.org/2006/03/01/when-was-the-last-time-you-really-looked-at-a-flower/#comment-5438 Servant of Chaos Tue, 25 Jul 2006 04:14:19 +0000 http://blog.acumenfund.org/2006/03/01/when-was-the-last-time-you-really-looked-at-a-flower/#comment-5438 As we grow older and experience more we forget the wonder of discovery. We tend to overlook the everyday ... but for a child everyday is a source of wonder and a field for a playful imagination. As we grow older and experience more we forget the wonder of discovery. We tend to overlook the everyday … but for a child everyday is a source of wonder and a field for a playful imagination.

]]> By: Abhishek Mundra http://blog.acumenfund.org/2006/03/01/when-was-the-last-time-you-really-looked-at-a-flower/#comment-39 Abhishek Mundra Thu, 02 Mar 2006 17:02:17 +0000 http://blog.acumenfund.org/2006/03/01/when-was-the-last-time-you-really-looked-at-a-flower/#comment-39 There is a simple fundamental behind life that everyone has forgotten: Situations are and will always be simple. People who think they are too smart and intelligent are outsmarted by this simplicity. Hierarchy is the definition people have given to the level of their smartness and intelligence. People have forgotten to be a child at heart and sharp at mind. In fact, its the other way round. Kids have the same language to communicate which grown-ups fail to notice. Highly educated people think to use the most complicated words for communication when a simple understanding would make them smarter and thus fail to realise that there is no understanding in the bigger picture!!! There is an urgent need for gaining understanding at the level of the big picture. Leaders who can make the smart understand the simplicity of life are the need of the day. There is a simple fundamental behind life that everyone has forgotten: Situations are and will always be simple. People who think they are too smart and intelligent are outsmarted by this simplicity.
Hierarchy is the definition people have given to the level of their smartness and intelligence. People have forgotten to be a child at heart and sharp at mind. In fact, its the other way round.
Kids have the same language to communicate which grown-ups fail to notice. Highly educated people think to use the most complicated words for communication when a simple understanding would make them smarter and thus fail to realise that there is no understanding in the bigger picture!!!
There is an urgent need for gaining understanding at the level of the big picture. Leaders who can make the smart understand the simplicity of life are the need of the day.

]]> By: Graham Douglas http://blog.acumenfund.org/2006/03/01/when-was-the-last-time-you-really-looked-at-a-flower/#comment-35 Graham Douglas Thu, 02 Mar 2006 06:49:27 +0000 http://blog.acumenfund.org/2006/03/01/when-was-the-last-time-you-really-looked-at-a-flower/#comment-35 How we think is not how we are taught to think. Usually we are taught critical thinking based on a very old understanding of the world as being one of parts that can be manipulated from one stable state to another. We could also be taught to think more creatively and more integratively if we applied our current scientific understanding of a world that tends to be self-organising and of human minds that tend to be integrative. How we think is not how we are taught to think. Usually we are taught critical thinking based on a very old understanding of the world as being one of parts that can be manipulated from one stable state to another.

We could also be taught to think more creatively and more integratively if we applied our current scientific understanding of a world that tends to be self-organising and of human minds that tend to be integrative.

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