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Tuesday May 16, 2006

May 16, 2006
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Thinking outside the conventional box opens up possibilities.

Conventions are invented ... abstractions ... so we are governed by some of them purely voluntarily. Some consequences for ignoring a given convention can be quite small (like no one notices for instance) or quite high (like one goes to jail because the ignored convention is enforced by law).

But the realized possibility from thinking outside convention may have no bearing on the convention at all...it may just be a real possibility you've never considered and could be great.

Since conventions are invented and so totally voluntary in the realm of thought, blindness caused by conventional thinking is easy to overcome by a simple thought: "if I didn't look at this from a conventional point of view, what would it look like then?"

A good example of mass conventional thought is same sex marriage and both sides of the issue are prone to their own conventional mindset and this blinds them to the possibilities of a satisfactory solution.

Tools for thinking outside the conventional box:
1. Empathy
2. "What if"
3. "Why do I believe this?

There are more...I still need to invent them and I need to go get another coffee so that's all for today.
hope:
so maybe my message wasn't as far off from the topic as I originally thought...hmmm

I'm reading A Brief History of Time right now, which is great, (despite the fact that I know a lot of this stuff already...but it's still awesome).
May 19, 2006
venice:
Actually the really hard part for me is feeling completely useless the whole time. But they're sending me down this weekend to bring her up here, and that helps a lot. I feel better about the whole thing now that I can do something.
May 24, 2006

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