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Simon Grant's avatar

This feels very sound to me — I'm resonating! What comes to me is rather meta... the more we can, together, recognise and seek to understand this systems perspective (or whatever else you choose to call it) the more I have a story to refer to, to remind me of the complex interactions; to remind me not to oversimplify. And yet, perhaps for some people it may be simple? What holds different people back is, clearly, different. I see this as rooted in the inherent complexity of our beings.

Maybe some people really do change through the application of just one of the three approaches. Maybe change in others is enabled by this kind of practical philosophy.

I'm not surprised by the failure of the lifetime one dress experiment. It feels rather absolutist in its own way. "I can just make this change and that problem will be permanently fixed". Well, obviously, no.

In any case, thank you for sharing this piece. I'm attuned to it.

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Jessica Böhme's avatar

Thank you Simon, and I agree: for some it might be way simplier. I really believe everyone has their own Theorie(s) of change. And they change as we change.

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David Garrett's avatar

Another great read, Jessica! It felt like you were guiding me through things I already knew, but that I didn’t know what to do with. Always great to get a piece of sensemaking with my coffee. :)

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Jessica Böhme's avatar

Thank you David, I am happy to hear you enjoyed this - especially with a coffee :)

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Sarah OBrien's avatar

I really like the notion of iteration across the dimensions of belief action and relationship that you discuss here. The relationship piece helps clarify my remark (on the one philosophy gym session I was able to enjoy before travel interrupted) of my sense that fundamentally humans desire being loved. By choosing and nurturing relationships with those whose values and actions resonate with our own intentions for good action, we build loving support for right action that enables and encourages that action through love.

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Jessica Böhme's avatar

🖤

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Tom H's avatar

I really appreciate folks like yourself and the dialogue you generate. Since we all think in words, your words always tend to help identify the code we all wish to understand. Thanks for sharing!

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Jessica Böhme's avatar

Thank you Tom, that's very wonderful to hear.

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Miniatures of Evolution's avatar

But what is a practice? My answer now is very clear: it is a space where learning becomes recursive, going back and forth between giving context to a hypothesis and adjusting the hypothesis to the given context. There is a keen pleasure in this, although I guess it is a "monadic" pleasure, because the monad knows that the system is broken (freeedom from a broken system is a "value" and a "pleasure" at the same time).

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Jessica Böhme's avatar

That sounds about right ☺️. I love that definition.

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