Last Saturday I had an interesting conversation with an old friend, who asked me the difference between plan-and-execute versus search-and-amplify. It felt like a great question to deep-dive into and landed up on a few interesting insights.
On the surface, those approaches look similar. But, in practice, search-and-amplify (SA) lens offers us something subtle -- intelligence of the whole. The fundamental difference is that the plan-and-execute (PE) approach is driven by the human mind, whereas the SA approach requires us to transcend the mind and be in the field of the unknown for goodness to emerge.
PE strategy is an outcome-oriented approach, where we are fixated on the desired end goal. It is implicitly biased towards a hierarchy of people, ideology or a belief system and that has a momentum of its own.
In PE modality, you do X to reach Y, but in SA mode, you do X to do X. The means and the ends are the same, or in other words, means are the end. Because there is no desire for any outcome nor a preference for a particular direction, it roots the whole process in emergence. That affords us intelligence of the whole.
Vimala Thakar speaks of 2 kinds of movements. One is a travel from point A to point B, and another is vibrational shift, without a predetermined direction. Both are movements but have vastly different implications.
I would love to hear different perspectives and uncover any blind spots I might have. Any thoughts? Am I missing something?
On the surface, those approaches look similar. But, in practice, search-and-amplify (SA) lens offers us something subtle -- intelligence of the whole. The fundamental difference is that the plan-and-execute (PE) approach is driven by the human mind, whereas the SA approach requires us to transcend the mind and be in the field of the unknown for goodness to emerge.
PE strategy is an outcome-oriented approach, where we are fixated on the desired end goal. It is implicitly biased towards a hierarchy of people, ideology or a belief system and that has a momentum of its own.
In PE modality, you do X to reach Y, but in SA mode, you do X to do X. The means and the ends are the same, or in other words, means are the end. Because there is no desire for any outcome nor a preference for a particular direction, it roots the whole process in emergence. That affords us intelligence of the whole.
Vimala Thakar speaks of 2 kinds of movements. One is a travel from point A to point B, and another is vibrational shift, without a predetermined direction. Both are movements but have vastly different implications.
I would love to hear different perspectives and uncover any blind spots I might have. Any thoughts? Am I missing something?
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