Sidenote: The benefits of writing (Thinking?)
In writing this I suddenly remembered Malcolm Gladwell's Tipping Point archetypes. So I guess I'm noising here, rather than creating genuine new intelligence. Oh well :)
In writing this I've also remembered that this is an ecosystem, an interlinked, interdependent world. Thinking gets nowhere without Noising and Executing. We need all colours, all flavours, in the group, to make the thing work - noisy noisers to trigger quiet earnest executors, thinkers to feed the noisers.
In writing this I've also thought that individuals or groups can quickly emerge from one or other groups into another - nothing is forever. Gandhi spent a lot of time sitting around talking to people (so Pete says) - a movement rose up around him. Talkers can coalesce over time and then suddenly propel into action, just as dry grass stiffens and smoulders under the hot sun, crackling and then ripping into wildfire.
In writing this I'm reminded that I want to spend my time evenly distributed between Thinking and Executing, and biased towards Executing if in doubt. Noising is pointless for me.
I also think that thinking can be a bit over-rated. What's wrong with feeling?
Posted by: Pete Burden | July 31, 2008 at 15:30