Subject: abstract vs. concrete

Posted by Bob Siegfried on 2/6/2006
In Reply To:abstract vs. concrete Posted by Bill Ellis on 2/5/2006

Message:

Hello.

First thanks to those of you who tracked down the source of the quote.

I agree that there is "too much action without thinking."

And ... (for me) the meaning of the expression "It's easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting" does not preclude prior thought or its value. Rather, the mental model the expression evokes for me is that ultimately, it is in the *action* that the value of whatever it is that has been conceived is ultimately *realized*, *incorporated*, and made real -- as the Rosa Parks example indicates.

I think we are in essence and intent aligned here, and wrestling with a metapor (i.e the expresion in question) that evokes (for whatever
reasons) different meanings in each of us.

Thanks.

Bob Siegfried