Opposable Mind

It never ceases to amaze how connections between RTS and the world show up! So I'm reading this book, Opposable Mind, and he makes the distinction between reality and what we think about reality, or the model of the world that we create. That is the distinction between what happened (Event) and what we said about what happened (Story). And it is there, that we see the key feature of integrative thinkers. They can distinguish between Event and Story. They can distinguish between reality and models that purport to reflect reality.

Integrative thinkers can then get out of the idea that their vision of reality (story) is the right one and area able to consider other points from other models, from other stories... to create something completely different... cool!!!

We are often faced with two opposing options, choices, models of reality... but to understand that they are not reality.... they are just models that explain reality... but not reality! And so, we can hold up the models, with no attachment to any of them, look at them, and come up with something new... something creative... something different...