The first time through Drive by Daniel Pink, I loved it. The 2nd time? I’m loving it.
When you read this book for the 2nd time, you’ll notice more than you did the first because you’ll have a different perspective since reading the first. You’ll have met people and talked about things that you relate back to the first read through. Makes it exciting! again! (shush. poets license. shhhht.)
Anyways, what grabbed me the second time through was the paragraph where he talks about heuristics. That’s creatively looking at things a different way. Versus an algorithm. Now, it may seem obvious that we need to look at things a different way in order to solve problems, after all, Albert Einstein taught us “we can’t solve problems at the same level that created them,” or something to that effect. But, heuristics grabbed me.
This reminded me of positive deviance. No, it’s not an oxymoron. Positive deviance is where a group of people within a group of people will go against the grain and do something that disrupts the accepted way of doing things and creates something that actually works. You’ve heard the saying, “first it’s laughed at, then it’s ridiculed, then it’s violently opposed, then it’s accepted as self-evident,” or something to that effect. Well, this is like that.
Next, you have design thinking by Roger Martin of Canada. I haven’t read , yet (I’m still reading Drive,) but I plan to. I researched it just for this post. Someone who will remain nameless @bigwags mentioned it the other morning at #CIB and it got me thinking. Later, when I was reading Drive for the 2nd time, this all came together.
The opposable mind from what I understand is holding two opposing thoughts simultaeously. Sounds far fetched until you have a family. Actually, sounds a lot like “enantiosis,” a rhetorical figure from way back in the day. Anyway, the author of the Opposable Mind has done some research on this phenomena.
Here’s something fascinating. While researching Design Thinking for this post, the Slideshare I read includes Daniel Pink’s take on design thinking! I guess great minds do think alike.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, “it’s amazing what you can learn when you’re constantly casting a net.”
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Heuristics are bug-ridden by definition if they didn’t have bugs, then they’d be algorithms. -unknown
You can’t keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once, and move on. -Dan Castellaneta
I could neither continue listening nor turn away. -http://rhetoric.byu.edu/figures/E/enantiosis.htm
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