I can't find the bit I wanted to share with you about the nature of childhood thought being about expansion, which then gets curbed....
Some other bits you might find interesting....
Ode to a J- type
Beware of the man who says he has twenty years of experience what what he should be saying is he has one year’s experience repeated twenty times....
In Ulysses James Joyce exploited the fact that we don’t think in words, and even if Ulysses is so complex as to be inaccessible (a least to me), it must still be a gross simplification of the much of muddled thought constantly churning, tumbling and swirling around in our heads.
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Paradoxically education allocates more value to logic and analytics skills than to imaginative conjecture. This law is held in esteem whereas art, or design, is considered a fiddly, fussy, arty-crafty activity of minor intellectual endeavour. An attitude with attitude.... particularly perverse since analysis looks backwards while design looks forwards.
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The conventional thinking we are taught (and conditioned to think) employs what Edward de Bono calls “rock logic”. Rocks being solid, hard, permanents, inert and unchanging. Like bricks, rocks can be added on to of one another to build structures. However there is also “water logic”. This is fluid and flows according to gradient (context), and assumed form according to space (circumstance). If you add one rock to another you get two; if you add water to water, it changes shape. Rocks analogous to a page of accounts and water to a piece of poetry.
The former has units that add up a conclusion, the later has images which conjure up perceptions. One isn’t better than the other; its horses for courses.
All: The art of looking sideways