In sports and in life, CONNECTION is as important as everything else put together.
When you confine your connections to being a fixed part of a fixed sum of the parts, you establish a comfort zone. It may seem like you’re constantly working, but you’re merely doing the minimum to get by. While having something to look forward to can make this more tolerable, embracing the pure joy of Gestalt will remove the sense of stagnation.
The Gestalt describes how connections between parts create something greater than the sum of the parts.
Gestalt necessitates a grasp of how all parts are separate, different, and interconnected. It involves effectively communicating to everyone involved that you are making a change to one specific element. Next, practice patience and a sense of inner calmness as you see the impact of this alteration on the other connections. Once you've observed the effects, move on to adjust another element, and keep this process going. Through these evolving connections, something greater than the sum of the parts comes to fruition.
When someone depends on connections that fix parts into a fixed sum of the parts, they assert that failing to fulfill our fixed role will prevent everyone from accessing the sum of the parts. If we hesitate or only partially commit to our part, we are viewed as selfish. Should we attempt to explain why the fixed sum isn't effective, we risk being excluded from it altogether. Since we do not desire this type of connection, it becomes pointless to create an alternative fixed sum. Instead, we can introduce the concept of Gestalt, illustrating how loosening the links between interconnected parts enables the parts to create something greater than the sum of the parts.
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A Journey Through Connection and technology
In the early 1990s, I served as a business analyst for a company that employed the revolutionary online collaboration tool, Lotus Notes.
My role involved identifying the various ways in which individuals connect and assessing which of these connections could be facilitated online.
I classified the forms of connection into two categories: measurable and immeasurable. The measurable connections were moved online, with the intention of freeing up more face-to-face time for those connections that could not be quantified.
I later discovered the measurable connections are for fixing parts into a fixed sum of the parts. The immeasurable connections were for creating something greater than the sum of the parts, described as Gestalt.
As the Internet and Google began to rise, I shifted my focus to assisting struggling technology projects on the verge of failure. By replacing the measurable connection with Gestalt connection, I was able to ensure that these projects were completed on time and within budget.
After that, I dedicated my efforts to helping young individuals with autism experience a Gestalt of connection.
Because it has become too easy to rely on connections that fix parts into a sum of the parts, I want to do something that makes it easier for people experience Gestalt connection.
The ability to connect to create something bigger than the sum of the parts is a crucial life skill of the 21st century
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