Insights are our greatest asset
Oliver Sellen
During '93 - '94, as an adult, I was completing my undergraduate dissertation which looked at the concept of the Learning Organization, and I was meditating daily. The insights which came from this meditation were so regular and profound, that I termed the experience White Water learning. The insights drove inner learning, being human development and growth, at such speed, that the notion of paradigm became virtually meaningless. This experience became the driver of a ten year project which aims to promote meditation as the ultimate management tool. The stage that I've now reached is one which considers the concept of Applied Meditations: here we meditate for ten minutes, and then, having reached a deeper level of attention, we subject any issue which requires further insight to the force of this deeper attention for five minutes or so. In this manner we can garner insights on a reliable basis, and these are the driver of our apposite organic development.
The reason why insights are of such importance, is that each new insight acts as a 'refresher' to our knowledge base in its related area, and our cross referencing potentialities in this area are dramatically enhanced. In essence our thinking system becomes ever more sophisticated, and it is for this reason, that I suggest that, 'Insights are our greatest asset'. And incidentally, hopefully, it gets us to consider whether the cliche that, 'People are our greatest asset', actually means anything. I remember reading, I believe it was Charles Handy, saying that twenty five years experience didn't really amount to much, if the last twenty two were simply repeating the learning of the first three: people will become our greatest asset, only when they are developing in the manner described above; I believe.
I would be very interested in the views of students and colleagues.
Oliver Sullen
oliver.sellen@ntlworld.com
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