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Wise Men and Mad Men See Outlines
Explanations of the final score of the 46th Super Bowl, won by the New York Giants, 21-17, over the New England Patriots, are likely to focus on a root cause, or last straw, of success, or defeat, depending on your favored team. Giants fans will long remember the 4th-quarter, 38-yard pass from Eli Manning to Mario Manningham, but soon forget the passes that were dropped along the way, not to mention a penalty for 12 players on the field. Patriots fans will long remember the 4th-quarter pass from Tom Brady to Wes Welker as the "turning point." (If he had a choice of when to fail, might it have been better for Welker to drop a pass in the 1st quarter?) Looking again, could there be an infinite number of causes for the final score and each of us have blind spots formed by drawing a line around our favorite cause?
Relative to the study of causes, Gregory Bateson, an English anthropologist, social scientist, and cyberneticist (to name a few of his many professional affiliations), would remind us of what he learned from poet William Blake; that "wise men and mad men see outlines and, therefore they draw them." His daughter, Nora, has recently released a 60-minute film, An Ecology of Mind, wovenly designed with videotapes of his lectures, interviews with friends and family, and provocations such as; The major problems in the world stem from the difference between how we think and how the world works. If you're interested in exploring the limitless implications of how we think and using this awareness to dissolve the lines we've created in industry, government, and education, through better thinking about thinking, we invite you to join with peers at the In2:InThinking Network 2012 Forum in Los Angeles, California on April 19th through 24th. This year, our ever timely focus will be; "Leading with Better Questions"
For reservations or more information, visit our 2012 Forum website at www.in2in.org/forums/2012 or e-mail us at registrar@in2in.org. Our Forum registration fee is $400 for the weekend Conference, with a $50 discount for registrations received by midnight, Pacific Time, on March 8th. For a glimpse of the excitement we offer, link here for a 1-minute photo montage from our 2011 Forum, and here for a 2-minute montage.
In2:IN 2012 Forum Team
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