The last article was inspired by a 91-minute talk with a friend of mine on Jan 18, 2022. He is a data scientist, a programmer and a mathematical thinker. He recently moved to the direction of innovative mathematical thinking. This is a big decision for him. He wanted to know more about the journey of independent research and the topic of in general. So, he called me for this talk.
I briefly introduced my journey of knowledge curation in 2021. He asked several about creative decisions behind the journey. However, we didn’t have enough time to talk about Life Strategy for Indie Creators.
We had the talk on Tuesday (Jan 18). The next few days I was busy launching my toolkits. On Friday (Jan 21), I edited a 57-page document titled Strategy-as-Curation and sent it to my friend. The document started with the framework and my rough plan about expanding the framework to the Strategy-as-Curation project. However, the plan only takes three pages. The rest of the document collects my emails with other friends and my diagrams.
Then, two Knowledge Sparks emerged. I realized that I should officially announce my “Mandala” thematic space. This led to a series of creative moments last weekend.
The last article was inspired by a 91-minute talk with a friend of mine on Jan 18, 2022. He is a data scientist, a programmer and a mathematical thinker.
He recently moved to the direction of innovative mathematical thinking. This is a big decision for him. He wanted to know more about the journey of independent research and the topic of in general. So, he called me for this talk.
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We had the talk on Tuesday (Jan 18). The next few days I was busy launching my toolkits. On Friday (Jan 21), I edited a 57-page document titled Strategy-as-Curation and sent it to my friend. The document started with the framework and my rough plan about expanding the framework to the Strategy-as-Curation project. However, the plan only takes three pages. The rest of the document collects my emails with other friends and my diagrams.
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However, what I want to deal with is not theory development for this movement. I want to have a good talk with my friend about life strategy for indie creators. He expects some useful practical principles, techniques, inspirations, solutions, instruments, etc.
I reviewed the Strategy-as-Curation document and I realized that I need a new Mandala which could present core theoretical concepts of the Ecological Practice approach with several operational heuristics together. Then, I can develop a new toolkit with the diagram.
Also, I realized that it is possible to use a new method to deal with the “Life” issue. From the perspective of Curativity Theory, I need to find two containers in order to respond to this challenge. First, I found the series of Mandala diagrams to be pretty good as abstract containers because each Mandala diagram represents a mindset from a professional perspective. Second, I found the metaphor of could lead to a concrete container. I could design a Psychodrama-like participatory play called the Mandala Club. The play invites several professionals to join the event and each person shares his own version of the Mandala diagram. Then, all participants connect these Mandala diagrams with the primary theme of Life Strategy and related themes. Finally, each participant discovers pairs of themes for their own life strategy and makes a personal mandala diagram.
As mentioned above, I also realized that it is possible to use a new method to deal with the “Life” issue.
From the perspective of Curativity Theory, I need to find two containers in order to respond to this challenge.
First, I found the series of Mandala diagrams to be pretty good as abstract containers because each Mandala diagram represents a mindset from a professional perspective.
Second, I found the metaphor of could lead to a concrete container. I could design a -like Participatory Play called the Mandala Club. The play invites several professionals to join the event and each person shares his own version of the Mandala diagram.
Then, all participants connect these Mandala diagrams with the primary theme “Life Strategy” and related themes. Finally, each participant discovers pairs of themes for their own life strategy and makes a personal mandala diagram.
In , I mentioned a technique for turning potential knowledge into actual knowledge: Deep Analogy. The most important key of deep analogy is the mapping between two containers. For present discussion, one is a set of Mandala diagrams, and the other one is a -like Participatory Play.
The shared key between two containers is Personas. The above seven Mandala diagrams were developed by Personas. I selected a persona first, then developed a Mandala diagram for representing the persona’s mental model. A -like Participatory Play requires several actors. Each actor represents a persona.
At around 3:00 p.m., I played basketball with kids. Then, kids moved to bicycling. I watched them and thought about the idea of a -like Participatory Play.