☞ The Messiness of Reality and Stories
When science divides reality up into disciplinary parts and deals with them separately, it reveals a lack of understanding of reality as a whole, as a system.
Russell Ackoff • The Systems Thinker – A Lifetime of Systems Thinking - The Systems Thinker
What makes us messy also makes us magical. Social experiments are every bit as important as scientific ones, even if they make for a bumpy ride.
Packy McCormick • Social vs. Science Experiments
The smartest minds today—including those studying computers, biology, math, physics—have come to understand that the world no longer adheres to predictable, linear mandates. Instead, life is filled with chaos and complexity, periods of order and disorder, linearity and nonlinearity. In place of steady lines, observers now see loops, spirals, wobble
... See moreBruce Feiler • Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age
People find it difficult to understand the idea of ‘imagined orders’ because they assume that there are only two types of realities: objective realities and subjective realities.
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
It has to do with how endlessly strange reality is when we look at it rather than through it. —
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Nature is much more disorder than order, more multiplicity than uniformity, with the greatest disorder being death itself!
Richard Rohr • Falling Upward
It doesn’t mean something’s wrong, and it doesn’t mean you can’t take constructive action – or, alternatively, relax – until all the answers are in. It just means that we’re limited in our capacity to get a grip on our infinitely complex reality. It makes little sense to let that hold you back from living in it.
Oliver Burkeman • Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
When science divides reality up into disciplinary parts and deals with them separately, it reveals a lack of understanding of reality as a whole, as a system.