Learning to walk through walls - by David R. MacIver
It's easier to become good at restricted ways of interacting with the world than it is to grasp it in its full complexity. This is fine and good, but sometimes leads to limiting conceptions of the world that we need to be able to break out of.
Learning to walk through walls David R. MacIver May 16, 2022 33 4 2 Share Hi everyone, I have a running joke that one of the most useful things I do when coaching or consulting is to say to people “Yes, that does sound like a problem. Have you tried solving it?” 1 Part of why this is a joke is that actually most of the useful work happens prior to the point - the hard part is actually articulating what is going wrong well enough that it seems like a soluble problem - but there is genuinely something useful about this, because often it feels people are looking for permission . Without the exter
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