Regenerative Learning

Posted on July 27, 2018 by firstdiscipline

4wdrive
What’s in a name ?
A Lot
Regenerative Learning (RL)
Fully Digital

No matter how old | maimed we are we have the potential to regenerate our…selves… fully ….completely …on our own RL explores the process

The binary is not fully digital The thumb can signify 0 or 1 We might need AI to nudge us to Natural Intelligence (NI) We need AI to appreciate NI What if we unleash the computing power of all 20 of our digits Beat the race to AI with NI ?

The New Literacy

Ground Zero | 0 or 1 ? |Ask yourself | Free to choose

We are yet to meet some..body who has DECIDED to LIVE though this dialog began on 16 July 1990. Are we not dead men walking ?

” The price we pay for centuries of denial of the body the ADULT and the feminine is unimaginable ” states the priest who would like to remain anonymous. As a species we still live in the age of darkness..the Kaliyug

Those of us who claim to be smart civilzed post modern and post truth live in the age of the binary…Dwapara every man an island

There is a third option …the Threta…Age of learning..connecting..Infinite transformations graduating to the fourth age of truth.. the satyayug The prodigal sun returns home He is no more an island dweller..Dwaipayana..Like Vyasa author of the great Epic Mahabharata

There is only one decision to make in life to choose between 0 and 1 nothing and everything finite and the infinite life and death Choose 1 firmly and irrevocably

Everything else falls in place. The vulnerability is no more. Healing begins here.Chaos gives in to order Live on Infinitely on the path of increasing order and continual renewal…..The new regime in Mexico has come to power promising a Regeneration Plan. Promises have a history of besting forever without delivery. Making history is to prove all of history wrong.

0 or 1 ?

1| Quality of one. Breaking Ground | The Regeneration Plan

Born again The Dwija Twice born

“The most important day of your life is not the day you were born but the day you know why” source unknown

Why | when was I born ?

Biological birth is no great event Millions have gone by without even being counted We do remember a handful from the past The current heroes will very soon be forgotten Many of them will not even have a wiki page in their name So

1 or 99 ?
If 100 is All
Is 1 > 99 ?
Yes says JHC

To risk 99 for 1 goes against common wisdom Exceptions show the way not the mass.we need both to complete the whole just as If logic is a frog intuition is the eagle There is always a solution and always an even better solution than the last one AI is the proof for NI but not the substitute Beauty and the beast make the whole There is not even 1 in a million chance that beauty recognises and tames the beast

Slow and steady wins the race Real achievement is painfully slow Patience is perhaps the greatest virtue After 28 years of work we have one who says firmly and irrevocably that s|he is free from the shadow of death We have had minor achievements all through but this one is groundbreaking The 99 pales in comparison to the one

We are not talking about shooting stars and start ups Not even unicons The Halley’s comet is a more frequent occurrence for such a black swan event

S|he is a being true to its nature free of all shadows death time gender past future Merges with the context like a chameleon to transform it to what it ought to be the true Catalyst to the alchemical process

Nature prevails | favours the natural Ruthlessly rejects the artificial Another population bottleneck is staring at us If a species chooses to self destruct there is no way it can be redeemed

The fit shall survive So shall the myths This time there will be more left to piece them together than post Flood or the Toba event

Making of the catalyst

We have a pretty poor opinion of our collective self and this is most acute with the best of us The scribe has been working with such a community for 33 years. Hardly anything of the self is left unappropriated by diverse esoteric boxes | disciplines

To choose between 0 and 1 is to accept our completeness
Caught between the devil and the deep sea we have no choice other than signing a pact with the devil | beast to undo the history of incompleteness and denial of the body the adult and the feminine

We have been paying attention to our incompleteness thereby creating it which adds up to 0 ! Nothing We are born when we reject such a worldview and chooses 1 firmly and irrevocably.which marks the beginning the first step on the path of regenerative learning While history | past acts like gravity to conform to the false normal the true normal beckons from the future setting the direction for the journey In the WC 1 plays 99 watch. 1 wins even when the game is lost The game matters to all It is fun anti gravitational giving buoyancy | lift for the take off

We are designed to fly It takes four to tango two teams the referee and the people in the gallery Life is the ultimate game

Children have flying dreams until we the pipers of Hamlin steal the child in them forcing them to conform to our notions of the false normal if everything goes well a rarity adolescent girls dream of boats rivers and the sea graduate to flying dreams by the time boys have grown up heavy lose their capacity to recollect their dreams Krishna Dwaipaayana ( Vyasa ) author of the Epic Mahabharata is an island dweller. Every story | dream is a boat | bridge to completion We need many not any single one The fascist and the fanatic have only one

Orpheus goes under and should not look back until he surfaces.

The superior man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing. Confucius

S|he the superior man is 1 complete male female trans gender POSITIONED to perform

Tell us you are not a Robot ….

A CAPTCHA is a type of challenge–response test used in computing to determine whether or not the user is human. The term was coined in 2003 by Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas J. Hopper, and John Langford. Wikipedia

Does that make us human ?
We have Life skill schools (?) for fairly grown ups the only species that need one. Robots are purpose built They are true to design deliver what they promise. We always promise to deliver but never

Are we inferior to robots ?

Wonder why we need AI ?

Are we designed for a premature exit without the ADULT ever being born ?

The captcha might suffice to prove we are not robots but will that suffice to prove that we are human ?

So tell us what makes us human ?

A question in asking for 28 years to some of the smartest of the lot

HR managers
Faculty |students of Engineering |Medicine | Business
CAT aspirants
People who claim to be smart …And ‘Transformers ‘
….
Google | Quora

The fisher the tribal and the farmer kept us grounded

It seems the birth of the Adult human is a long way off. Are we designed for a premature exit without the ADULT ever being born ?

Individually each one of us may remain incomplete works in process forever

Things are not that bad There is a politics of silence at play less than 1% play more than 99 watch…. in silence ……despite the uproar from the galleries

We have met many a perfect pair or pairs that hold infinite potential for infinite transformations

So near yet so far ? Like going to Mars to find my…self ….the revolution brewing @home

The complete pair | Men and women give birth to each other

Integral Analytics | The Lilliput App

Posted on March 26, 2018 by firstdiscipline

Since 1990, Interrogator asks

The humans here please stand up, Everyone does

What distinguishes the human from the Animal ~?

All answers fail Google. Google is better but fails to offer a workable answer. Quora is no better

Proof: We are sub-human, and the machine is already ahead of us
Animals are perfect we don’t even know what distinguishes us from them
Turing is history, Ashby wins We do not have the requisite variety to deal with external variety….unfit to survive? Devolving | Evolving

Interrogator provides a working solution

Humans ask questions
Humans have the potential to build..Continually improve …Learn…
An Intelligent system is one which continues to improve on its previous best performance

The retreat takes off.Proces lasts 3-5 days 8+ hours a day

Mastering the Lilliput
Why master the App~?

In case

you would like to transform yourself to Gulliver

to master rather than remain a slave of various tools and disciplines

to be a builder rather than a breaker

+ Many more that we leave it to you to add on

above all choose not to give it all up to AI

Now the journey begins

In the past we used to do this one to one and in groups

This is the first time we are taking it online

We will complete the first round in 10 steps, a finger a day

The thumb stands for 👍

The right palm stands for personal mastery

The left for Community

Another story, wiki for the Lighthouse story

Over 20,000 lighthouses have become redundant with the GPS

Lighthouses do not run around ships navigate in relation to them

invariant and variant positions

So let us look at some invariant positions

Human | Adult | Professional

Do we agree..like it…share it as your own on your page …this is in the commons…no copyrights..let us know..you are with us…completely.. on this..

Key takeaways

Position, Positioning, direction, reflection
Why the right thumb not the left ~?
Return, reflectThere are many rooms in my father’s (source) house

The compass | GPS enables mapping

Every build process begins with a fix of the position

We are as good as our maps. Remember Columbus

Every discipline (esoteric box) has its own maps

We don’t have maps that connect the silos

The Lilliput solves this fragmentation conundrum

For the Lilliput the first discipline is personal mastery and the second, learning together – community learning

Learning is outcome based, improvement from the previous best

How long is the planning horizon ~?

Wiki has lists of living centenarians who continue to work…Gullivers in comparison to Lilliputs who manage to 75 and barely work (often doing a machines job) for 25- 30 Years

The App works on an infinite mode with a real-time update of our previous best performance on each one’s focus areas

All users are potential immortals

Look at the number of variables when we reach the 10th level / finger

Two palms, ten fingers, each finger has 4 subsets 2×5×4= 40

The Tamils had a decimal system in which they further divided each finger into 10

If we follow that map we get 400

That’s quite a roomful..mind..FULL..ness
Inside 400 | outside 400
With two more quadrants for the past and future that would take us to 1600 the foundation on which the Kerala School of Astronomy and Mathematics was built. They called it Catushkoti

Lots and lots of balls to juggle with

But we don’t use all but one finger to fiddle with our devices and might even do away with that completely

We will get into this inside outside relationships much later when we finish learning to count – Akam | Puram connections as they understood it aeons before us even prior to the Vedic period or at its very beginning

We hope you see the road ahead

Next 3. Why we are no better than clocks and on freedom from the slavery to clocks
The Middle Finger
Clock, Measure,Metrics,Time flows back

The clock represents simple machines.All of them including the Newtonian Universe.In that universe even our bodies are clocks
The shot that leaves the barrel of the gun too works…..like a clock

But for the duration of the bullet’s trajectory and our 75 years some say there is no difference between the life of the gunshot and us

We are born like the gunshot with sound and fury and inevitably pass off like the bullets. What a meaningless life.

Wonder why the suicide rates are this low ?

We are but slaves of the clock and Time.Since we are mortals we created corporations….

Now think of Big Ben

Big Ben has been around than any of us

Think there are 4 hands to the clock
Two that you see..And two that you can not

The visible hands go forward making infinite circles..

The invisible hands go backward ….Anticlockwise…
Time flows back…

Every measurement involves looking back…Reflecting

Like where were you yesterday at this time and where are you now….~?

If one is not just a body …time travel is possible….

The body at rest continues to rust….!

Rest….less is rust…less

Was Newton wrong ~?…Partially yes

When we wake up in the morning and look back …Recollect our dreams we are going back in time…

She had a dream..

The Shape of Water ….this was post Oscar

She is on the veranda of her place by the sea…Looking out into the sea …post
Oakhi….that was a different sea

Waves roll on to beach…..Rather the seawall of giant boulders of all irregular sizes and shapes…..protecting land …they claim…

It is a beautiful morning …The sun is behind her…..The blue gray of the water turns bluer …

The sky turns golden

The waves roll on gently caressing the giant boulders

And then …as time stands still…the rocks disintegrate …..turns powdery ….into a golden beach

She has a golden beach

She wonders …Has my real estate crashed …~?

There is a man standing behind her..No I am the land…it is only a presence…and a whisper

The waves are gentler…They continue to caress the golden beach..

She wakes up …Wonder…What it means

In memory of Mr C Prasad ( PGP 79 – 81) the Gulliver among Lilliputs a dear friend and inspiration to this …Of 39 years…Words fail

Lilliput 4

The Ring Finger Thermostat .Universe of advanced machines…Self regulation ..Control..Marriage/Synergy..How did the 4th finger become the ring finger? Positioning, Mapping and Reflection, the job of fingers 1,2,3 become meaningful..If..and if only.. self regulation is achieved…Water turns to wine. Thus unlike the clock the compressor of the fridge is designed to work or not work, a kind of marriage of the lower levels to work together in an Intelligent manner. This is the how to of machines or the technology of technology, the symphony of the machines…

Are we collectively as intelligent as the fridge ?

We are not. We are nothing but clocks claiming intelligence..?

Do we act on available information ?

Farmer suicides in India, Gun control in US..The plight of the Fisher and Tribal in Kerala… Is more data the solution..? Or the transformation of data to information mediated by the self ? Why fake information works or killing us !

Where are the Adults~~?
Process maturity ~

Has machines already taken us over ~? Turing is redundant and it is time to revisit Bertalanffy, Boulding, Ashby et al…

Yes …whatever concerns we have of AI is already a reality.

Next The Little finger. The cellular ..Beginning of life as we understand

Do we collectively match the intelligence of a single cell ?

Yes No Yes and No …?

The Lilliput 5

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special – Stephen Hawking

Very kind of him..Not to say potentially advanced but regressed to sub monkeys…Monkeys might object…We love our cats and dogs more…

The Little Finger. Level 5

The 5th step of 10 of the Ladder of Understanding in Flatland

The Cell. The Universe of unicellular organisms inclusive of the single human cell. Graduation from Machine Intelligence to Natural Intelligence / biological systems. The beginning Life as we understand it. Even the Rock has its own life and if we could take a leap outside of the well of Nature or Plato’s cave Everything is one as they saw the planet as one from space.

We have reached the halfway mark to the requisite level of awareness to grasp the nature of the design. on the ladder of understanding. If it were a 3D model the ladder would transform to a sphere. The Palm connects all the five into one and the self both hands into one

Lilliput 6
Hitouch Hitech

We are reviving a tradition as old as the human about to be lost completely by the new digital. This too is digital not binary but decimal demonstrating that our 10 fingers can be used as an interface to the machine, a metaanalytic framework, that it is imperative we manage invasion of data and the machine however massive their computational capacity and intelligence will evolve to be

All we need is not to lose TOUCH at Home not lost@home/s High Tech High Touch

From the right hand we move to the little finger of the left

From New Literacy, algorithmic literacy, we move to Community

The little finger Level 6

The Plant, the Universe of plants, more complex than the cell, a class apart from the unicellular, can we do without plants vegan or non

One takeaway the importance of Being Rooted

Extreme relativism has promoted the notion that everything is relative and slippery that there is no non controversial reference point around which we can come around, and we are destined to be lost in the desert, everything a lie in a post truth world

There may not be an absolute truth but is there something that is more true and less of a lie on which we can come together, which is in the Commons, the basis of Community. Modernity has pushed the tribal and the Fisher to the edges . Some of us have been and are still working in these edges witnessing the tragedy of the Commons. We see also the rise of the new commons, thanks to the new digital, the platforms are in place which makes this dialogue possible

The War on Kids . Pipers of Hamlin
Lilliput 7
Left palm..Ring finger, Animal|s
Key takeaways …Perfection, Community

We love our pets more than our neighbours
They are perfect
They don’t kill within the same species without rhyme or reason
We would not prescribe this prescription to improvement even to our dogs

We would need coaching by the Ants and Bees….On Community

We are Animal worshipers

We gain they lose : Research..Stray dogs are more intelligent than domesticated dogs. They become morons like us by the association

Level 8
Third finger from left : The human | Individual | The Fall | What is it to be human | Wo|| Man

Lilliput 8
Level 8 the middle one Human The Fall from perfection Paradise Lost The individual human What the cell is to the body the human is to Community

Human unique in potential to improve from the previous best

Reflect …The best was before the beginning ..

The blessing | curse

Digital…Binary 0 |1 or Decimal ?

When binary meets the decimal its 0 | 10

Digital transformation…A perfect 10

Singularity is here now

Future is History

Level 9 fourth finger from the left

Community

Level 10

Regenerative Learning

The system of systems continually improving from its previous best

The body is the mirror of the Soul

Now what : Iterate…To the right thumb start all over.. its return but with an improvement from the last time we were here

Iteration is not repetition Hope you remember the simplex method Linear programming Optimization It works at this level not at level 8 and the famous Five….

Aavartanam gunavartanam

The Lilliputs are gone

Gulliver wakes up to freedom

No knots

Remembers It was a bad | good dream

Re..Search is to Re…Member

Kerala meets Kashmir….Once again
Story killing : intuition supported by reason…Hare and the Tortoise recycled n times and a Nobel ? ….What is novel ?

Eagle …Frog
Thinking Fast …Thinking Slow
System A….System B
Gulliver …Lilliput
Lighthouse…Compass / GPS
Microscope…Telescope
Local…Global…
Left brain…Right brain

+ n …….

Before the beginning was the picture….Picture perfect ….

Once again the visual is taking over….If we choose to SEE

The Lilliput ..In process…Integral Analytics

1. Draw the outline of your palms ….Mark the key words in the natural order..Max 10
2 Dumb charade in class …Guess the 100 words
3 Plot Time Now..Past and Future
4 Find the four spinning wheels
5 Find the Fire Chariot
6 Find the driver of the Car / Chariot
7 Share your outputs…Show
8 Find the connections…Akam/Puram…inside/outside…Catushkoti….Asoka chakra …Nagarjuna Chakra…Yoga…Singularity…Music..Vastu…The middle path…other knowledge traditions..religion…myths
9 CAR…Concepts…Action…Results
10 Restless is Rustless…Thanks to Whitehead

There is no computer more powerful than this that restores the natural order …Regeneration is the outcome ….Healing our..selves

Who is afraid of AI ~ ?

Recap

Transformation is digital…. not binary …but decimal

The only species sans a sense of direction is US. Ducks and turtles are waterborne though they take birth on land. They don’t attend swimming schools

Birds and Fish migrate continental distances without GPS

Plants are rooted not homeless like us

Every single cell is as old as the universe. They go on living infinite lives

The Dravidians had a 10×10 x4 matrix with 400 variants to describe the interior world- mind FULL – and three more of the same to signify the external, past and present. Their lens to look at reality was not broken into binary as ours continue to be. They could see future as history…..Bhavishya Puranam was a much later addition

Our collective psychological age is 12 and some of our tech Titans are living out their early childhood dreams of flying that they don’t remember…

Why 12 ? Proof is Porn. We are blissfully unaware of our survival drive distortions …our collective crisis of adolescence …but discussing the midlife and late life crisis !

From the binary to the decimal

1.Thumb, 0,1,10, GPS..Principles..Position/s…Direction/s, Reflection/s, nothing, everything,choice

2Right little finger represents number 2 the tool at this level is a hard rock that the cave dweller used to leave his footprints on rock. We can replace it with a pencil. …to represent our simple tools…..+ Map/s..Our current maps remind us that we still remain land borne not waterborne airborne or flexible enough to see that we continue to be dwellers in flat land

We hope you SEE the direction of the exercise…Happy juggling with 1600 balls between your two palms and 10 fingers

Transformation is at our fingertips…numbers were coterminous with language…if we figure out our numbers order is the natural outcome…

Do we Think?

Posted on September 21, 2014 by firstdiscipline

What is on your mind? – FB

Whether to put out my Narcissus or Procrustus best

Can Asians Think? Asks Kishore Mahbubani since 1998

Is there an Indian Way of Thinking? Asked AK Ramanujan in 1990

Do we – humans- think?

We think we think

We don’t – as a species ! There is no ‘ us ‘ thinking. There may be U.S / American thinking !

The question is important since we are what we think we are!

I am tempted to provoke you. Most of us do not know how to think

And the Powers that be do not want us to think!

What is to think?

That we think is beyond dispute. The quality of our thinking needs to be judged on the outcome of our thinking

If one thinks and thinks and reaches the conclusion that kicking the bucket is the best option that too is thinking. On the other hand, one thinks, connects and improves her and the tribe’s wellness we have thinking as it ought to be.

Asians do not think as one as the Chinese think that they are one, or the Singaporeans do. Indians do not think as one nation. In fact we are the most confused as to what is to be an Indian or even what is to be a Hindu, perhaps because of our heightened levels of complexity !

To be an Indian and to think in the deeper sense of the term has significant strategic implications. If we subscribe to the view of “vasudhaiva kudumbakam” we need to indianise the global community – Indianisation is globalization as against the current paradigm of Westernization as globalization

When we understand the Indian way of Thinking we have a strategic advantage which enhances global community and offers us opportunities as a Global Solution Provider.

The Indian way of thinking vs the western

Read them as, more and less rather than either or

a little crude way of putting it for the more sophisticated

Fusion vs Fission

Analytic vs Integral

Wholeness vs Divisiveness

Process vs event oriented

Unification vs Fragmentation

Moderation vs Extremist

Tolerance vs Aggression

Realisation vs Actualisation

Renunciation vs Achievement

Inclusive vs Exclusionary

Neg-entropic- Entropic

Organic – Mechanistic

We can go on ad infinitum. One need not be an expert to see the obvious unless one prefers to pretend blindness.

Sanskrit, processed, India was the only culture which had a language for process and dialogue, the hallmark of culture. .We are not argumentative as some would say. We would pretend that we don’t know rather than pick up an argument which is counterproductive. This is not to say that Sanskrit is the way out but to reiterate that the product is in the process. Thinking is a process and the process need to be judged against the outcomes. If our outcomes are less than what we expected at start, we need to go back and improve the process.

Asia has been the source of all religions, the failed science of the past. As the Asian begins to think and the levelling happens we will be compelled to rethink the science we thought scientific.

To conclude:

Most of our problems have roots in the way we think, which also includes our personal health. If we think we are machines, that machine has to break down however sophisticated it is.

“Nothing can be more important than being able to choose the way we think.”- Eknath Eswaran (1910–1999)

Who am I ?

Posted on September 14, 2014 by firstdiscipline

Who am I ?

” I am Christ, the Son of the living God”

It was time to return to Taxila. The two of them shared the same vision on what would happen once they left. Both were builders par excellence of structures, physical and virtual. They conspired to test them on how they would respond to the one question that held the key to all questions,”Who Am I? “.

A building built to last needs a foundation. As rock is for physical structures, understanding of the self is the foundation to all buildings that last, the one key to all the other keys.

“But who do you say that I am?”

“You are Christ, the Son of the living God.”

“Blessed are you, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. ” it is not something that is taught, but a realisation that you come into, it is revealed to you.

Thomas, as usual, doubted.

” Peter, Who do you think you are?”

” I too am the son of the living God”.

Thomas was surprised, but he was not. The fisherman needs no lessons in anchoring though this test was on anchoring one-self.

” And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the powers of death shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”

Then he strictly charged them to tell no one (!!!) that he was the Christ.

He knew that the promise would be broken, Procrustus would take over and it would sabotage the work of transforming self to Christ / the world transformed to living God. The caterpillar is to butterfly and water is to wine as the average human is to the true human.

The true human leaves no footprints.

Others left. He could read Thomas. “It is the experience, not the story that matters. The parable is the container. One has to break the container and get to the content to be transformed to Christ. This is the work that kills work and lightens the burden on our shoulders.

A spark inside and the lightning outside were synchronous. Thomas remembered the day when he had said “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

Writing about “the stages of life” Jung argued that we need schools to prepare people in their middle years for something approximating true maturity (adulthood). He concluded, “we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life’s morning: for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie.”

There were two adults in the hangout of thirteen. We are lucky if we meet one in our times.

” The unprohibition in God’s own Kerala marks the complete conversion of the state to the colonial version of Christianity. The salvation of the state requires the revival of the Thomas version of Christianity which successfully retained its identity against successive waves of Jain , Buddhist and Hindu revivalist influences. The doubter that he was, respected reason over sentiments, adult to the infant, dialogue to sermons. Horses would fly if such wishful thinking were to work. What would be more realistic to expect will be more sheep leave the flock and the shepherds herd together to restrain the birth of The ADULT. Diplomats that we are, this will be more of a silent revolt than an open rebellion.”

What is it to be human, adult, the son / daughter of the LIVING God?

“To be an adult is to believe in dialogue, leave space for the adult in the other to manifest, to be human is to continually improve, killing death itself from one’s self. Nature is the living god and the son / daughter of the living god is free from all fears including the fear of death. There is no death in life and such a one does not live in death. Perfection is and death too is perfect.

Nobody prohibits anybody from anything. We know and trust. I am that. Thou art that.

One has to find one’s own rock, harder than diamond, invariant and changeless as no building lasts on fissures and fault-lines.

What is Natural? – The future of life

Posted on March 23, 2014 by firstdiscipline

Ask more questions?

If you have run out of questions, I have a few for you, questions that I keep on asking. Raj paused and threw his dart of a question at the group.

What is natural ?

Current average life expectancy at birth is 71 years, 68 years for males and 73 years for females.

Wiki has many lists of centenarians. Here is the one on currently living centenarians

How do we explain the gap of 29- 39 years between the average and the exceptional?

The average is no reflection of the normal or natural and our constructs of normal or natural are far from the true or natural. This is the brick and mortar with which we build the dungeons to imprison our selves. What we do is break when we say build.

Do centenarians and women live a more natural life?

What is the design for, to live for 110 years, or 200 + years?

I believe it is for 200 + years.

If so what is the magic age when you are fully born – physical, mental, spiritual, social – adult ?

What can make you live for 200 + years ?

What happens to work ?

What about marriage ?

What happens when you exhaust your bucket list ?

Summing up 1990-2013

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Summing up 1990-2013

“For over 1200 years Taxila and Nalanda were the finest centres of learning in Asia and the world. Emperor Ashoka was the political outcome of this intellectual leadership. As Taxila and Nalanda declined, centres of learning emerged elsewhere. This process continues.

What is now emerging is far more exciting, driven primarily by open — often free — real-time access to information and technology. With social networks and the immense possibilities of online learning, the centres of learning have shifted homeward. Critical to the success of these new, emerging centres of learning is the maturity of the learner. In fact, the key outcome of this new literacy is the emergence of the adult who thrives on dialogue and community. Yet existing leadership styles and organisational practices often tend to stifle the blossoming of the adult, especially in large organisational and governance systems.

This is where First Discipline comes in — as the management equivalent of the graphic user interface. The graphic user interface took technology to the masses; this book seeks to do the same for management, facilitating accelerated learning and mastery of the critical set of sustained high performance competencies.

Management is often understood as a derived discipline. This book though, rests on the conviction that management is a foundational discipline that offers a meta-framework to integrate all other disciplines. The limitations of the discipline of management thus arise from the failure to recognise its integrative role. Through visual semiotics, the integral First Discipline Framework takes the reader to the philosophical foundations of management, highlighting its integrative nature, connecting the east and the west and the process of achieving accelerated mastery of this practice.

Developed in 1990, the First Discipline Framework is a visual compass for our journey through personal, organisational and community life. The tool continues to be used in diverse contexts — schools, MBA programmes, start-ups, industry, non-profits, government and for capacity building among the ecosystem people.

From 2007, the dialogue has gone online and global. This book is an outcome of the expanding dialogue on First Discipline.”

Re-emergence of Asian Management

Posted on March 3, 2013 by firstdiscipline

First Discipline

Discipline of disciplines

The Re-emergence of Asian Management

Ancient Roots, Global Reach

Analytics, integration, the three imperatives and six perfections

Category: Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Business, Development, Governance and Management

Contents: Foreword, Dialogue Development and Community, New Literacy, First Discipline Framework, Process, Metaphoria, Reflections, Future, FAQs

Foreword

First Discipline (FD) is the discipline of disciplines, the base from which other disciplines are derived. Disciplines, art, science or religion, are but collections of maps of physical or virtual spaces. Literate or illiterate, we cannot survive without maps. We start with models and when results meet our expectations consistently, we elevate them to the level of maps. An example is the periodic table. At the highest level maps connect meta-disciplines unifying them into knowledge and wisdom. The silos get connected. The self is the agent of learning and transformation of data to information creating sense, meaning and structure. It follows that FD is also the study of the self in relation to the whole, from the level of the personal to family, groups, organizations, and society.

Technological bandwidth increases at a frenetic pace. We also find instances of human bandwidth shrinking even faster. The paradox necessitates that we develop a framework, lens, that facilitates analytics and integration, seeing and showing the deep structures to achieve much higher levels of integration

Growth is a process of resolving issues of identity, moving from dependence to independence and to interdependence. Individuals, teams, organisations and communities need to go through the process. Copying from less complex contexts will not suffice to stay ahead. It is essential to go far beyond imitation to create competitive advantages. FD offers an analytic and integration tool and methodology to address these challenges and disconnects. Through visual semiotics, it incorporates eco-literacy, the new spirituality of work, system thinking, cultural archetypes, continual renewal, mental maps, personal mastery and other unifiers to work together like an operating system of the self at different levels. Transfer of learning and mastery of competences are acquired at a faster pace in comparison to any other approach. If the world has turned out to be imperfect, it has more to do with these models of the world than the world outside. The visual semiotic tool, the new eyes, show us a coherent whole giving us the new vision an essential prerequisite to creating a more desirable future. As in the case of a terrestrial journey, the approach incorporates positioning, measurement, feedback and reflection, functions that are carried out by the compass, clock and the feedback system that enables the traveler to be on course.

How and what we learn as individuals, communities and community will decide our common future. Targeted learning is context and problem specific and seeks to connect, reflect and catalyze- better, faster and deeper. The pace of learning is the differentiator in the race for market share. Technology and the internet have changed the paradigms of learning. The full impact is not felt since habits linger on. It is feasible now to leave rote learning to the memory devices freeing time and effort to more productive. Learning on a need to learn basis at the time it is required is feasible. Self mediates in the process of transformation of data to information and knowledge creating sense, meaning and structure in turn leading to learning and improvement. Mastery of this process, at the level of individuals, organisations, community and society at large is critical the developmental process.

Icons and symbols, like road signs and traffic signals, can function like a compass. The Graphic User interface accelerated the emergence of a connected world. Within the networks is silicon which has the innate quality of connecting and forming very long chains. Digital and other deeper disconnects of multiple dimensions slow down the journey toward the higher evolutionary potential in us, individual or collective, creating serious threats to the very survival of the species. Marshall Goldsmith tells us ‘What Got You Here Won’t Get You There‘. If we go by history and precedence we wouldn’t have made the moon shots. History is created when we make it history.

The nature of the common journey is that we move towards our completeness and to greater completeness. A parallel can be drawn for this journey too, similar to out other journeys. Let us say that the journey begins now. I am in Bangalore and the time is 10 AM, 31 May 2008. We need a compass/map and the clock to do this. I would like to go to Mumbai. The direction too is fixed. As I take every step on my journey to Mumbai, I need to make sure that I am moving in the right direction and not away from it. This is reflecting looking back and forth to make sure that the process is in control. The three keywords are Position, Direction and Reflection the basic essentials to take on the physical world. Given the other requisites one is certain to reach Mumbai. Without the first three all the rest will not take us to Mumbai.

Mapping the physical world has become very precise in our times. Between Galileo’s telescope the Hubble and the Femtoscope, are the very large and the very small – farther and deeper. The observer connects the two attempting to comprehend the whole. Yet we will never comprehend the whole in its totality. At best it will always remain an approximation and there will always be unknowables. What we can comprehend of the physical world is so vast that a system is required to navigate. The journey of life is much more than a journey through external space since we are much more than our physical selves. How does one position oneself for this journey? It is the self which fixes the position, direction and reflect on itself as to the progress of the process. The observer and the observed are parts of the same system. Mapping the whole system, physical, nonphysical, external and internal and evolving a navigational tool is one of the basic requisites for the journey on that less travelled road. From 1981 to 1990, we worked towards evolving the FDF, the road map. Eco-literacy, the new spirituality, system thinking, cultural archetypes, continual renewal, mental maps, personal mastery, and many more unifiers are embedded in the tool. Since then we have been using tool for dialogue in diverse contexts though dialogue is not in our habit. Politicians and priests preach, professionals prescribe, teachers lecture, parents advise. Dialogue needs adults, not leaders and followers or shepherds and sheep. The approach is process and dialogue based, in real time, stretching without burnout and improves alignment at deeper levels of the self for sustained high performance. Dream work, re-framing of mental maps through storytelling/writing, envisioning, action learning in a simulated work environment are some aspects of the methodology. The context and details vary but the principles remain the same. Since going online from May 2008, the dialogue continues globally and in real- time.

This living document is the outcome of this continual dialogue. It gets written on its own. In the past, several thousands, bulk of them from the edges, have participated in the process. I/we in the document represent any one or the community which includes me. Among others, I remain one of the facilitators to the process and I alone am responsible for the biases, errors, omissions and jargon that would have crept in, un-noticed.

Many dots remain to be connected. Welcome to the dialogue and to connect more of them.

Joseph Manuel

Maturity Metrics,Stages of Growth and Levels of Awareness

Posted on April 18, 2012 by firstdiscipline

“If 50 is the new 30 when do you turn into an adult?

“Adulthood is yet to be defined. We have different numbers for different purposes, contexts and cultures pegged at 13, 16, 18, 21 “

“You may be 100, but that is no guarantee that you are an adult”

“Most metrics are quite arbitrary and we give undue weightage to numbers”.

“Dealing with the demographic imperative necessitates bringing quantity; quality and time to be reckoned with at one go. Erikson’s eight is too inadequate.”

Most of us may never pass through the gate to adulthood if we define adulthood as maturity to self-regulate, take informed decisions that leads to continuous improvement. Adulthood in the information age is about discerning information from data, the competence to ask the right questions or search. Information is data that kill misinformation that takes us to more order than decay.

Collectively we do not even manifest the wisdom of a single cell in its ability to take care of itself. We are yet to graduate from the level of the clock/ simple machines. Perhaps our institutions partially exhibit some of the characteristics of advanced machines with limited self-regulation.

The cell is to the body as an individual is to the community. Let us look at the issue at this level before proceeding to higher levels of complexity.

Event Process Metric/s

Stage / Event		Process	Metric/s
1	Conception	One-ness, Ignorant bliss	Dreamers
2	Birth/death	Duality, Separation, Pain, paradise lost	Conflicts, noise
3	Positioned	Purpose Clarity, Work to fun	Silence, voice
4	Map	Directional Clarity	Improvements
5	Clock	Mechanical awareness	Rituals, Measurement,Breakdowns
6	Thermostat	Self-regulation	Decisions
7	Cell	Organic life	Increasing order
8	Plant	Rooted	Glocal
9	Animal	Perfection	Design awareness
10	Human	Identity, Independence, Freedom	Gender intelligence
11	Community	Interdependence	Happiness Index, Community Intelligence
12	Meta maps	Accumulated learning	Expertise, Practice
13	Aligning with the unknown	Balance	Humility, sustained improvements
14	Graduate/Warrior	Catalyst	Adulthood, Continual Renewal, Servant leadership, Reflective

We are still struggling with improving this tentative proposition. The dialogue is on.

Why blue?

20 April

“So what is the new 21”

“60 and in perfect health”

” then the new 74 will be 222+”

“Yes, computationally speaking, otherwise no such limits. You are not your 58 kilos”

” oops”

“Then what are you?”

” You are your work”

“Hmm”

“Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.” -Buddha

Aligning with the unknown

Posted on February 15, 2012 by firstdiscipline

Connect to your best friend

Why should I?
How do I diagnose whether the unknown is working for or against me?
How do I align myself with the unconscious, the unknown and the unknowable?
What are the payoffs of aligning with the unknown?

If this makes sense, go to next:

Start here:

Build the lighthouse

Light the beacon, Watch out

Notes from light house keepers

Before: self, by default

After: SELF, By design

First Discipline

Contents: Foreword, Dialogue Development and Community, New Literacy, First Discipline Framework, Process, Metaphoria, Reflections, Future, FAQs

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