Sometimes it helps to look at the bigger picture.

Points To Ponder: THE DELUSION OF LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE The most powerful learning comes from direct experience. Indeed, we learn eating, crawling, walking, and communicating through direct trial and error—through taking an action and seeing the consequences of that action; then taking a new and different action. But what happens when we can no longer observe the consequences of our actions? What happens if the primary consequences of our actions are in the distant future or in a distant part of the larger system within which we operate? We each have a “learning horizon,” a breadth of vision in time and space within which we assess our effectiveness. When our actions have consequences beyond our learning horizon, it becomes impossible to learn from direct experience. --Peter M. Senge, The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization

Story Line: In The current state of world affairs- Pandemic, Border Disputes, Political Positioning, Equal Rights, Natural Disasters, Enviornmental Issues, Diversity....."My Way or Highway"...........

Your Reflection: Where are we heading as the human race? What is the Big Picture Thinking?

 

The Fifth Discipline is one of the few books I have learnt from and treasured from the day I was introduced to it in the year 1992 by our boss Robert Miller. The learnings from this book have been great asset in what follwed in wonderful career and life.

Comments

[Sam]

Reminds me of the lesson from fifth grade poem about blind men and the elephant. They touched different parts of the elephant and assumed that the whole animal looked different. They could spend arguing and yelling about who is right. Bottomline, they were all wrong. Someone had to look at the whole thing to realize it was an elephant.

[SMVM Friend]

True , I also heard that elliphant story

[Thomas]

Stop trying to "learn" from social media. It is disconnected from reality, by design.

[MC- Singapore]

Fully agreed. Another example is climate change. We are mostly not aware of the consequences of our actions on the climate.

[David Maloney]

This podcast explains the thinking. Scientists have been warning us for years about the looming threat of a warming planet. And yet it’s really hard for many of us to wrap our minds around this existential challenge. Why is that? This week, we bring you a favorite episode about why our brains struggle to grasp the dangers of global climate change. https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cub21ueWNvbnRlbnQuY29tL2QvcGxheWxpc3QvYWFlYTRlNjktYWY1MS00OTVlLWFmYzktYTk3NjAxNDY5MjJiL2QyYzRlNzc1LTk5Y2UtNGMxNy1iMDRjLWFjMzgwMTMzZDY4Yy8yYzY5OTNkMC1lYWM4LTQyNTItOGM0ZS1hYzM4MDEzM2Q2OWEvcG9kY2FzdC5yc3M/episode/MGZlNGVmYmEtMmU5YS00MWViLTg5ODQtYWQ3MTAxMDIxYmQ2?ep=14