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Carregando... Seven Life Lessons of Chaos: Spiritual Wisdom from the Science of Change (1999)de John Briggs, F. David Peat
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 Skipping fluidly from irrational numbers to Zen paradoxes, from Vaclav Havel's notion of "the power of the powerless" to the I Ching to the egalitarian, "self-organizing" interactions of an Ojibway Indian community and Manhattan's food distribution system, the authors use chaos as an overworked metaphor in a barrage of analogies, speculative leaps, platitudes and anecdotes.  Chaos is evolving from a scientific theory into a cultural metaphor. As a metaphor it allows us to query some of our most cherished assumptions and encourages us to ask fresh questions about reality. Our modern society has been obsessed with conquering and scientifically controlling the world around us. However, chaotic, nonlinear systems – such as nature, society, and our individual lives – lie beyond all our attempts to predict, manipulate, and control them. Chaos suggests that instead of resisting life’s uncertainties, we should embrace the possibilities they offer.
If you have ever felt your life was out of control and headed toward chaos,science has an important message: Life is chaos, and that's a very exciting thing! In this eye-opening book, John Briggs and F. David Peat reveal sevenenlightening lessons for embracing the chaos of daily life. Be Creative: engage with chaos to find imaginative new solutions and live more dynamically Use Butterfly Power: let chaos grow local efforts into global results Go With the Flow: use chaos to work collectively with others Explore What's Between: discover life's rich subtleties and avoid the traps of stereotypes See the Art of the World: appreciate the beauty of life's chaos Live Within Time: utilize time's hidden depths Rejoin the Whole: realize our fractal connectedness to each other and the world Life is impossible to control--instead of fighting this truth, Seven Life Lessons of Chaos shows you how to accept, celebrate, and use it to live life to its fullest. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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This well written and fascinating book addresses the challenge of adapting our new scientific understanding and applying it to our daily lives. The book takes seven key features of our understanding of chaos and in turn explores how they may prompt us to think and act in new ways that better align with the true nature of the world.
Be Creative: engage with chaos to find imaginative new solutions and live more dynamically
Use Butterfly Power: Let chaos grow local efforts into global results
Go with the Flow: Use chaos to work collectively with others
Explore What’s Between: Discover life’s rich subtleties and avoid the traps of stereotypes.
See The Art of the World: Appreciate the beauty of life’s chaos.
Live Within Time: Utilise time’s hidden depths.
Rejoin the whole: Realise our fractal connectedness to each other and the world.
In many ways the book covers much of the ground that I have been exploring and am attempting to write about. So in one sense it is a very welcome addition to my knowledge, disappointingly however, for a book written in 1999 its impact seems to have been minimal. The final chapter of the book describes why this would be so. We live in a world that yearns for answers, even when they can’t exist. Chaos theory is about the inability to predict and control, the inability to know and the reality of the unknowable. This is a book that accepts that reality with the following statements.
1. Every statement in this book is limited.
2. 1. is a statement in this book.
If you want an alternative to the endless stream of ‘Look here I’ve discovered the winning formula’ books, then this would make a fabulous start point. (