| As a side effect in my life long study of human | | | | chunk thinking" and will turn immediately to |
| excellence, genius and creativity, I have | | | | chunking down EVEN FURTHER in moments of |
| discovered ONE particular thinking pattern that | | | | crisis, because that movement is THE ONLY |
| makes ALL THE DIFFERENCE in:- understanding | | | | movement they know and are familiar with, |
| the world | | | | make great soldiers, factory workers, low level |
| - problem solving | | | | clerics - great ants, in other words.But the fact is |
| - innovation and creativity | | | | that to "think in the opposite direction", to zoom |
| - and even inner harmony.This is a meta filter | | | | out to see the bigger picture, is a simple as a |
| which people LEARN, they are NOT born "that | | | | child's game - we just need to reverse it.Instead |
| way", and it is a really profound one that makes | | | | of playing endless versions of, "What's the |
| the difference between a great thinker and | | | | difference?" we start asking instead, "What's the |
| someone who isn't, at the end of the day.This | | | | SAME?"It is then the meta patterns become |
| filter is about whether a person sorts all manner | | | | revealed and the MOVEMENT OUT towards the |
| of incoming information by difference, or by | | | | "bigger picture" begins to occur naturally.This is |
| similarity.Fascinatingly, across the board, children's | | | | such a simple, and yet such an INCREDIBLE |
| games are games of "difference".Spot the | | | | thing.Consider this.We may ask, "What's THE |
| difference; Sesame Street's "One of these things | | | | SAME about a black boy, and a white boy?" and |
| just doesn't belong here ..."; and many, MANY | | | | the answer is ready and clear - "They're both |
| other strategies across the board and all the | | | | boys!"We may ask, "What's the SAME about a |
| educational modalities reward this "sorting by | | | | little boy and a little girl?" and we may receive the |
| differences".The side effect of sorting by | | | | answer, "They're both human beings."EVERY |
| difference is to compartmentalise the world into | | | | person needs to be able to ZOOM BOTH WAYS - |
| ever smaller blocks of detail; this leads directly, | | | | into the details, and out to biggest possible picture, |
| and I mean directly, in completely logical cause | | | | and back again.EVERY person CAN do that - it is |
| and effect fashion to losing the ability to "see the | | | | just a question of encouraging the neglected and |
| big picture".In neuro-linguistic terms, the | | | | secret "bigger picture" movement from an early |
| movement from a normal sized picture into more | | | | age, and THAT in itself is as simple as to say to a |
| and more detail is called "chunking down".This is | | | | child, "What's THE SAME about your teddy and |
| when we stop looking at the car, and instead | | | | your doll?"For any adult who seeks to really |
| focus on a single wheel, and then the hub of a | | | | re-connect to their own creativity and POWER |
| single wheel, and the the screw with the hub, and | | | | TO DETECT THE META PATTERNS of our lives |
| then a single turn of the screw, and deeper and | | | | and our environments, it is the same |
| deeper into the details of the thing, until we're in | | | | game."What's THE SAME about the last five |
| quarks and neutrons territory and no-one knows | | | | movies you've watched? What's THE SAME about |
| or cares that we ever started with a bright red | | | | the last 15 successful advertising campaigns the |
| motor car.Now, there is nothing wrong per se | | | | competitors ran? What's THE SAME about me |
| with "chunking down" into details of a thing; where | | | | and other people?"There is a structural |
| it becomes immensely DANGEROUS for a person, | | | | re-connection that is astonishing which occurs so |
| and for many people in their collective societies, is | | | | naturally as a by product of asking that simple |
| when EVERYBODY thinks like that - apart from a | | | | question, which is indeed profound, and profoundly |
| few "visionaries" that is, of course, who will | | | | healing.I do believe that the answers lie in the |
| become the leaders.Aha!A general MUST be able | | | | meta patterns, and in our ability to PERCEIVE |
| to see the bigger picture; a king must; an industry | | | | THEM CLEARLY.If we get, as individuals AND as |
| leader; ANY leader MUST have the magical ability | | | | societies, those meta patterns right, then the |
| to zoom out and perceive huge arrays of objects | | | | details will NATURALLY take care of themselves - |
| IN PERSPECTIVE in order to discover the meta | | | | that's the way it works."They" say that the devil |
| patterns that make up the WHOLE situation.In the | | | | lies in the detail - it could well be so that salvation |
| education systems the world over, children are | | | | can be found indeed, in all of us starting to pay |
| not raised and trained to become LEADERS. That | | | | much more attention to "the bigger picture".Dr |
| explains why the "downchunk movement" into | | | | Silvia Hartmann is the author of "Project |
| detail is being taught and fostered at every turn; | | | | Sanctuary", the original quantum thinking training |
| people who are only comfortable with "small | | | | manual. |