Tuesday, December 03, 2019

Just a Device


Garr Reynold of Presentation Zen talks about paying attention to the stories you see in everyday life in order to improve the quality of your own storytelling. You can learn about presentation-giving from jazz, road signs, a good movie or anything that captures your attention in a powerful way and conveys a message that moves you. Everything is a device for learning. The Karate Kid washed car windows to learn to defend himself. My favourite tool at the moment for learning about learning is the Rubik’s cube. Learn the form. Learn the transition. Then leave the form, and flow. The same is true of learning about business or money making. It all boils down to problem solving. Not everything is a problem, but we can’t focus on those things until we are released from the obsessive control of our time and space by problem solving. In “The Art of Learning”, Josh Waitzkin talks of “Numbers to leave numbers, Form to leave form”. That is how I see Capital. Money is like form & numbers as a counting device. Something that can either control us, or if we can master it, can be released.



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