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SENSIBLE APPROACHES TO COMPLEXITY, MYSTERY, AND THE UNKNOWN



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UNDERSTANDINGS (to expand what you can know)



*  Probability (tractors, scenario work, Bell Curves, etc.)

*  Conditionality (context, relativity, Observer Phenomenon)

*  Emergence

*  Change - its ubiquity, inevitability, rhythms, textures

*  Cognitive limits (biological/neurological, cultural, scientific, philosophical)

*  Dynamic systems: Complexity science, interdependence, ecology, system dynamics



PRACTICES (to enable peace of mind and effectiveness)



<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;">*  Awe, appreciation

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;">*  Acceptance, non-attachment, non-resistance, non-forcing (Buddhism, God’s will, Serenity Prayer)

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;">*  Trust (allowing)

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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;">*  Intuition, dreaming, working with the unconscious

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;">*  Shamanism

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;">*  Oracles - I Ching, Tarot, Astrology

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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;">*  Interacting multiple viewpoints:  Dialogue, interaction among diverse entities

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;">*  Aggregated multiple viewpoints: Prediction markets

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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;">*  Humility

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;">*  Prudence, caution, tentativeness

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;">*  Experimentation, pilots

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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;">*  Learn from experience and reflection

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;">*  Observe the whole - in as many ways as you can

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;">*  Self-knowledge - individual and collective - especially regarding limitations, assumptions, and biases - and their dynamics in us and life

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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;">*  Trust (active) - evocative trust, assumption of positivity

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;">*  Holding space - nurturant observation and waiting

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;">*  Self-organization - engaging in, facilitating

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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;">*  Resilience - innate capacity to recover from unexpected and/or traumatic events

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;">*  Flexibility - adaptation to different conditions

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;">*  Live skillfully in Transition and Evolution

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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;">*  Metaphoric thinking - metaphors, poetry, personification, myth - match current situation with phenomena of comparable character and complexity

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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;">*  Realize - and learn to life in - some version of the deep Reality underlying all transient phenomena

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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;">*  Focus on the fundamentals of a good life at your natural scale of predictability (be here now; local; manageable) - especially in the context of any of the other practices, in order to not have surprises derail you.

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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;text-align:center;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Georgia;">'''The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious --the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. '''

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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;text-align:center;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Georgia;">- Albert Einstein -