- that play is more creative than work. When people are happy, they work harder and smarter.
- that if you want to learn, you should learn to make mistakes, and make them fast
- in hard work, and that talking about it is no substitute for doing it.- that there is so much more to "mind" than is contained in the space between your ears.
- that we all have infinite potential, if only we have the courage to bring our entire self to everything we do.
- that art and science are both good, and are even better together.- that when we re-connect mind, body and environment we have access to an infinite range of solutions and ideas.
- that there is often more to be learned from risk than from research. Risk is almost always faster, and sometimes it's cheaper
- that genius is in all of us. It is nothing more elusive than a combination of knowledge and playfulness, and the ability to make connections......
A SELECTION OF CLEVER PEOPLE WHO AGREE WITH US.....
Ludwig Wittgenstein:
If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
John Kay ("Obliquity"):
The most profit oriented companies are not the most profitable.
K.Weierstrauss:
It is true that a mathematician who is not something of a poet will never be a perfect mathematician.
Simone Weil:
At the very best, a mind enclosed in language is in prison.
Jaana Parviainen:
Movement is the mother of all cognition: It forms the I that moves before the I that moves forms movement.
Kazuo Ohno:
“Don’t treat dance as some kind of abstract game. Take each and every step as though you were putting your life on the line……….Technique could never provide me with the wherewithal to achieve what I’ve set out to do. What do I care whether you’re skilful or not. What I do care about though is that your performance makes me walk away afterwards feeling grateful for being alive.”
Books we've enjoyed recently.. or not so recently..
- Obliquity by John Kay
- 13 Bankers by Simon Johnson/James Kwak
- Don't sleep, there are snakes by Daniel Everett
- 'Splendours and Miseries of the Brain: Love, Creativity and the Quest for Human Happiness' by Semir Zeki.
- Common Wealth by Jeffrey Sachs
- Action in Perception by Alva Noe
- Send in the Idiots by Kamran Nazeer
- Neither Brain nor Ghost by W. Teed Rockwell
- Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore
- Understanding Consciousness by Max Velmans
- The Divided Mind by John E Sarno
- Born on a Blue Day and Embracing the wide sky by Daniel Tammet
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