Welcome to the course
With this letter the professor really made me feel welcome to the class. A caring welcome. A deep welcome. “We are all in this together!” And we are all different, which makes it so interesting to work together throughout the year and create a sociality among ourselves.
Making Space
Since the beginning of time our emotions are aroused by Text and Images. And we live in a world controlled by technology where our computers, laptops, phones are the means through which we experience and where we create text and image and experience emotions. We are making space for our emotions, feelings, and thoughts. And the fishbowl is giving us a platform for sharing. Sharing is caring.
Restructuring Text
Restructuring texts is an important process as we create value. Sharing our process creates more value. Sharing enforces learning. We need to read other people’s ideas and thoughts on the same topic and compare it with our own. This reflection gives us ways to improve our work. Reflection is a key process in order to achieve the best possible outcome.
REFLECTIONS ON LETTERS
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Niklas Middrup
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Sharing what we see when we read
Every time we receive a letter from Professor Sanjiv we start reading it for the first time and ask ourselves “What does his words mean?” Especially nowadays in a digital world it can be difficult to interpret the meaning of words as the words only appear on a screen in front of us. There are fewer face-to-face conversations where we can interpret things like facial expressions and emotions going along with the spoken words. While interpreting the words we become a hub in a network of information. All of us are individual hubs that consists of different levels and areas of knowledge. Our experiences in the past put meaning to the words and cerates images in our mind and feelings in our body. As a consequence we all have a different relevancy (what we “see” when we read). The fishbowl functions like a theatre for us to share our different interpretations, to connect, to compare, and to learn from each other.
Simulating a society
The fishbowl is our way of communicating with each other in this class. It is a new, a different way for us to communicate so it is normal that we face difficulties and are questioning the purpose and logic. We have to be open-minded and need the willingness to accept new things and adapt to them. Our society is changing all the time as technology gives us more and new platforms of communicating. The fishbowl is growing, evolving constantly. It simulates a society.
Reading the others postings
Reading other posts with full attention will allow us to gain a deeper understanding of what the author is actually trying to say. We might not always fully understand everything but we will experience a way of reading that is more meaningful and it improves our concentration. It is not enough to just skim a text. We should read it several times and get lost in the words of others. Often we read a text and already minutes later we forgot what we just read about and what it means. It’s a waste of time. It’s the deeper understanding we are seeking.
Every time we receive a letter from Professor Sanjiv we start reading it for the first time and ask ourselves “What does his words mean?” Especially nowadays in a digital world it can be difficult to interpret the meaning of words as the words only appear on a screen in front of us. There are fewer face-to-face conversations where we can interpret things like facial expressions and emotions going along with the spoken words. While interpreting the words we become a hub in a network of information. All of us are individual hubs that consists of different levels and areas of knowledge. Our experiences in the past put meaning to the words and cerates images in our mind and feelings in our body. As a consequence we all have a different relevancy (what we “see” when we read). The fishbowl functions like a theatre for us to share our different interpretations, to connect, to compare, and to learn from each other.
Simulating a society
The fishbowl is our way of communicating with each other in this class. It is a new, a different way for us to communicate so it is normal that we face difficulties and are questioning the purpose and logic. We have to be open-minded and need the willingness to accept new things and adapt to them. Our society is changing all the time as technology gives us more and new platforms of communicating. The fishbowl is growing, evolving constantly. It simulates a society.
Reading the others postings
Reading other posts with full attention will allow us to gain a deeper understanding of what the author is actually trying to say. We might not always fully understand everything but we will experience a way of reading that is more meaningful and it improves our concentration. It is not enough to just skim a text. We should read it several times and get lost in the words of others. Often we read a text and already minutes later we forgot what we just read about and what it means. It’s a waste of time. It’s the deeper understanding we are seeking.
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Niklas Middrup
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New forms of intimacy and friendship
I think one transformation that it taking place in how we differently define and experience friendship nowadays is due to digital environment we find ourselves in. Our generation is becoming less and less communicative face-to-face while we mainly talk to each other via phones and sent messages. I believe that is definitely becoming more difficult to create deep and genuine friendship because people are influenced so much by the digital world.
The social meeting exercise will expose us to meeting each other face-to-face which lets us experience and read each other’s character full of feelings and emotions in a better way.
Theory of Assemblages
Everyone of us has a degree of autonomy. The power of making our own choices and decisions. Everyone of us is his own entity. With the social meeting assignment we will try to create a social entity between the three of us. Together with the flow and exchange of our input in the fishbowl, which proceeds smoothly, we will become a unit. We will establish an assemblage.
Reassembling the Social
This letter is the most abstract one so far. So many strong and meaningful words that need to get broken down to their essence. We find ourselves in continuous process within our fishbowls. We enter it regularly. We reveal our thoughts and ideas. We share it with each other. We reflect on each other. We create value. The fishbowl can become anything we want it to be.
I think one transformation that it taking place in how we differently define and experience friendship nowadays is due to digital environment we find ourselves in. Our generation is becoming less and less communicative face-to-face while we mainly talk to each other via phones and sent messages. I believe that is definitely becoming more difficult to create deep and genuine friendship because people are influenced so much by the digital world.
The social meeting exercise will expose us to meeting each other face-to-face which lets us experience and read each other’s character full of feelings and emotions in a better way.
Theory of Assemblages
Everyone of us has a degree of autonomy. The power of making our own choices and decisions. Everyone of us is his own entity. With the social meeting assignment we will try to create a social entity between the three of us. Together with the flow and exchange of our input in the fishbowl, which proceeds smoothly, we will become a unit. We will establish an assemblage.
Reassembling the Social
This letter is the most abstract one so far. So many strong and meaningful words that need to get broken down to their essence. We find ourselves in continuous process within our fishbowls. We enter it regularly. We reveal our thoughts and ideas. We share it with each other. We reflect on each other. We create value. The fishbowl can become anything we want it to be.
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Niklas Middrup
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Meeting once again
Everything we do, we should do with a purpose. We have to know the reason why we are doing what we are doing. If not, we could just leave it. The social assignment exercise taught us to think in a more abstract way and challenged us to create abstract sentences. We imagine and picture in in our minds. We hopefully feel some sort of satisfaction. We create sentences based on our observations and share it with each other. We all have individual and different observations. That’s why we have to be open minded and appreciate our different views. No judgements.
Soft power
Sharing your information that will be believed by people is an ability that becomes important to manage power. When your opinion is respected and matters to people you create a society in which you can do good business in. It takes time. It’s a process.
Learning is an act of courage to achieve deeper learning we have to compare and contrast our different restructured observations of the social meeting. We all experienced the same conversation but our feelings and emotions during the meeting can be completely different. Thus, it is essential to share our perspectives and different points of view while keeping an open mind. We need to appreciate our differences and create meaning within our groups. The possibilities of learning in our groups are limitless but learning requires courage.
Your Assemblages
In the fishbowl we form an assemblage by putting together all the parts and materials from each one of us. In our assemblage we analyze and examine the precise content of what we are actually putting together. We also learn to associate: to think about our own individual content in combination with the content of the others. Our material is distinct from each other, which makes it a challenge to build one joint assembly among us.
Constructing and creating knowledge content from a knowing experience
Our work in the fishbowl is steadily emerging and is changing constantly. Brenda Laurel describes authorship as the creation of our completely personal experiences (the knowing). As we already learned it is of great importance to select the important things and clear out the things that appear not as important in order to aid our thinking process. Gary Wolf makes a very thought-provoking point when he says that remembering is very similar to forgetting and maybe forgetting is good as most things we do shouldn’t be remembered.
Everything we do, we should do with a purpose. We have to know the reason why we are doing what we are doing. If not, we could just leave it. The social assignment exercise taught us to think in a more abstract way and challenged us to create abstract sentences. We imagine and picture in in our minds. We hopefully feel some sort of satisfaction. We create sentences based on our observations and share it with each other. We all have individual and different observations. That’s why we have to be open minded and appreciate our different views. No judgements.
Soft power
Sharing your information that will be believed by people is an ability that becomes important to manage power. When your opinion is respected and matters to people you create a society in which you can do good business in. It takes time. It’s a process.
Learning is an act of courage to achieve deeper learning we have to compare and contrast our different restructured observations of the social meeting. We all experienced the same conversation but our feelings and emotions during the meeting can be completely different. Thus, it is essential to share our perspectives and different points of view while keeping an open mind. We need to appreciate our differences and create meaning within our groups. The possibilities of learning in our groups are limitless but learning requires courage.
Your Assemblages
In the fishbowl we form an assemblage by putting together all the parts and materials from each one of us. In our assemblage we analyze and examine the precise content of what we are actually putting together. We also learn to associate: to think about our own individual content in combination with the content of the others. Our material is distinct from each other, which makes it a challenge to build one joint assembly among us.
Constructing and creating knowledge content from a knowing experience
Our work in the fishbowl is steadily emerging and is changing constantly. Brenda Laurel describes authorship as the creation of our completely personal experiences (the knowing). As we already learned it is of great importance to select the important things and clear out the things that appear not as important in order to aid our thinking process. Gary Wolf makes a very thought-provoking point when he says that remembering is very similar to forgetting and maybe forgetting is good as most things we do shouldn’t be remembered.
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Further reflections on your social meeting papers
Usually we think first before we take action, which is most of the time a good thing because actions can have a great impact and come with consequences. But there also thoughts that are provoked by our actions known as “soft thoughts” (e.g insights, understanding, intuition, grasping).
Idealizations
Our lives are full of idealizations. Our society is striving more and more for ideal things being entirely without fault or flaw. But the reality is at times far from perfect. It is the faults and flaws that are interesting. We have to be open minded and appreciate the imperfections to manage and understand our world.
Society of consumers
Clearly the internet had a significant effect on the shift from a producer society to a consumer society. We are living in a world with online shopping. We do not feel the urge and excitement to produce something new but we rather want to buy something that we have seen somewhere. We like it convenient. From the video “Liquid modernity” I remember the phrase “meaning itself is at an end”. We are living in a time period where we become less restricted and restrained from things like religion and ethics. In a liquid modernity we are not living in classes anymore but everything is more mixed and flexible.
Usually we think first before we take action, which is most of the time a good thing because actions can have a great impact and come with consequences. But there also thoughts that are provoked by our actions known as “soft thoughts” (e.g insights, understanding, intuition, grasping).
Idealizations
Our lives are full of idealizations. Our society is striving more and more for ideal things being entirely without fault or flaw. But the reality is at times far from perfect. It is the faults and flaws that are interesting. We have to be open minded and appreciate the imperfections to manage and understand our world.
Society of consumers
Clearly the internet had a significant effect on the shift from a producer society to a consumer society. We are living in a world with online shopping. We do not feel the urge and excitement to produce something new but we rather want to buy something that we have seen somewhere. We like it convenient. From the video “Liquid modernity” I remember the phrase “meaning itself is at an end”. We are living in a time period where we become less restricted and restrained from things like religion and ethics. In a liquid modernity we are not living in classes anymore but everything is more mixed and flexible.
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Living mindfully in a cyber-culture
Thinking about what we post, share, like, or watch online is something we should be very aware of. We leave digital footprints everywhere. We need to have that in our minds at all times. The internet remembers. I believe social media makes us more antisocial. We don’t have as many face-to-face conversations as we used to. Most communication is done via calls, texts or snaps. We are on the way to lose people skills.
Thinking Process
We are all working alone before we share our thoughts with others to create value. “Words reveal performances”. In our fishbowls we start by depicting something on a blank sheet of paper. We have the power of freedom to make our decisions on what words we select. We create meaning by the choice of our words. Our texts are individual and nobody can copy them.
Thinking about what we post, share, like, or watch online is something we should be very aware of. We leave digital footprints everywhere. We need to have that in our minds at all times. The internet remembers. I believe social media makes us more antisocial. We don’t have as many face-to-face conversations as we used to. Most communication is done via calls, texts or snaps. We are on the way to lose people skills.
Thinking Process
We are all working alone before we share our thoughts with others to create value. “Words reveal performances”. In our fishbowls we start by depicting something on a blank sheet of paper. We have the power of freedom to make our decisions on what words we select. We create meaning by the choice of our words. Our texts are individual and nobody can copy them.
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Niklas Middrup
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Friendship again
“Who are we, really, when we silence the vanity of who we should be?” A powerful question. Society sets the norms and beliefs how people should be and act. What is right and what is wrong. The media, especially social media, strongly influences us in how we perceive our world and ourselves. We compare ourselves to others. Comparison is poison. It makes us fell less successful, less beautiful, less happy.
Social networks and new forms of sociality
“The Whole becomes greater than the Sum of its Parts”. Our individual work is good. We create it. It is unique and personal. But sharing our work produces value. The structures in our network influence how we communicate and interact with each other. We bring our thoughts together. We take our thoughts further and further and maybe we destroy them and create something new of higher quality.
“Who are we, really, when we silence the vanity of who we should be?” A powerful question. Society sets the norms and beliefs how people should be and act. What is right and what is wrong. The media, especially social media, strongly influences us in how we perceive our world and ourselves. We compare ourselves to others. Comparison is poison. It makes us fell less successful, less beautiful, less happy.
Social networks and new forms of sociality
“The Whole becomes greater than the Sum of its Parts”. Our individual work is good. We create it. It is unique and personal. But sharing our work produces value. The structures in our network influence how we communicate and interact with each other. We bring our thoughts together. We take our thoughts further and further and maybe we destroy them and create something new of higher quality.
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Facing each other
If we don’t engage, interact, collaborate and cooperate with each other, the fishbowl is useless. It will feel like a burden to us. If we decide face each other, work with each other, and learn from each other, the fishbowl has no limit.
Recapping methodology of the fishbowl
Our fishbowls are places full of action. Every single time when we select a word, we take action. We are responsible for the outcome depending on our actions and the path we chose to go. There is no wrong path. We all have our own and individual paths. We are responsible what the end of our paths will look like.
Doing conversation
“Be confident and full of mental vigor. I am behind you. STOP worrying about getting it right, your grade, or what is it that I want. JUST DO IT.” – Sanjiv
I believe many students, including me, enjoyed reading these words. Maybe even a feeling of relief. This class is different than all of our other classes, it is unique. It gives us more freedom, the leash is held long. Grades are not the most important part. It is the process of learning. It took me quite a while to get used to it, to adapt. But once you do, you will start to enjoy it and you feel strongly connected to your mind when you read and write in the fishbowl.
What is your metaphor?
Using metaphors allows us to enter new stages of understanding. It gives us space to act creative without worrying about the correctness of our work. There is no right or wrong. It is unusual. It is unconventional. It is unorthodox.
Reader response theory
The role of the reader is essential to the meaning of a text. People can interpret the meaning of a text in many different ways. The purpose of a reading response is examining, explaining, and defending your personal reaction to a text.
Simulating complex adaptive systems
“The tables have already turned (metaphor).”
In the beginning of the semester, we were just listening to Professor Sanjiv’s words, writing down notes and taking everything in. Now we are creating our own words in our papers. We are creating value and in that way giving back to our Professor.
Morning thoughts: developing a Voice
“It is your Voice that has to be heard, if you want your Action to have an Impact.” – Prof. Sanjiv
If we want to our voices to have an impact, we have to speak up and make people listen to us. Otherwise, our ideas, thoughts, and feelings will remain silent. We need to take initiative to help create value by using the power of our voices.
Looking forward to reading
Our papers are our own work. We sacrificed time, consideration, and passion to express ourselves. We are making text and images. We are creating value by connecting abstract sentences to personal felt-experiences. The value we create is the return on our investment.
Simultaneous reading and writing
“Your papers help me focus on words and take action in practical aspects of my life.” Prof. Sanjiv
It is exciting to see how our papers, our work, our labor is affecting someone else. Sharing our work creates the value by producing evolving and diverse patterns of meaning.
Reflecting mid-way
Empower your text by sharing it. We want to affect as many other people as we can and to do so we have to share how we think. We are creating something entirely new with our abstract sentences. It is our own work. This makes it so powerful.
Reflecting a New Society
Complex Adaptive Systems. Dynamic Decision-Making. Unique Innovative Capabilities. It will be exciting to continue working with the 10+1 steps and broaden our understanding of these characteristics of business. It will be very useful and allow us to establish new ways of seeing.
If we don’t engage, interact, collaborate and cooperate with each other, the fishbowl is useless. It will feel like a burden to us. If we decide face each other, work with each other, and learn from each other, the fishbowl has no limit.
Recapping methodology of the fishbowl
Our fishbowls are places full of action. Every single time when we select a word, we take action. We are responsible for the outcome depending on our actions and the path we chose to go. There is no wrong path. We all have our own and individual paths. We are responsible what the end of our paths will look like.
Doing conversation
“Be confident and full of mental vigor. I am behind you. STOP worrying about getting it right, your grade, or what is it that I want. JUST DO IT.” – Sanjiv
I believe many students, including me, enjoyed reading these words. Maybe even a feeling of relief. This class is different than all of our other classes, it is unique. It gives us more freedom, the leash is held long. Grades are not the most important part. It is the process of learning. It took me quite a while to get used to it, to adapt. But once you do, you will start to enjoy it and you feel strongly connected to your mind when you read and write in the fishbowl.
What is your metaphor?
Using metaphors allows us to enter new stages of understanding. It gives us space to act creative without worrying about the correctness of our work. There is no right or wrong. It is unusual. It is unconventional. It is unorthodox.
Reader response theory
The role of the reader is essential to the meaning of a text. People can interpret the meaning of a text in many different ways. The purpose of a reading response is examining, explaining, and defending your personal reaction to a text.
Simulating complex adaptive systems
“The tables have already turned (metaphor).”
In the beginning of the semester, we were just listening to Professor Sanjiv’s words, writing down notes and taking everything in. Now we are creating our own words in our papers. We are creating value and in that way giving back to our Professor.
Morning thoughts: developing a Voice
“It is your Voice that has to be heard, if you want your Action to have an Impact.” – Prof. Sanjiv
If we want to our voices to have an impact, we have to speak up and make people listen to us. Otherwise, our ideas, thoughts, and feelings will remain silent. We need to take initiative to help create value by using the power of our voices.
Looking forward to reading
Our papers are our own work. We sacrificed time, consideration, and passion to express ourselves. We are making text and images. We are creating value by connecting abstract sentences to personal felt-experiences. The value we create is the return on our investment.
Simultaneous reading and writing
“Your papers help me focus on words and take action in practical aspects of my life.” Prof. Sanjiv
It is exciting to see how our papers, our work, our labor is affecting someone else. Sharing our work creates the value by producing evolving and diverse patterns of meaning.
Reflecting mid-way
Empower your text by sharing it. We want to affect as many other people as we can and to do so we have to share how we think. We are creating something entirely new with our abstract sentences. It is our own work. This makes it so powerful.
Reflecting a New Society
Complex Adaptive Systems. Dynamic Decision-Making. Unique Innovative Capabilities. It will be exciting to continue working with the 10+1 steps and broaden our understanding of these characteristics of business. It will be very useful and allow us to establish new ways of seeing.
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Forming theory with anecdotal evidence
“You are learning to sound like Yourselves.” –Prof. Sanjiv
To sound like ourselves we need to deconstruct the text. Every word we select and we take it further until we’re happy with the outcome. We should try not to theorize as much.
Further reflections on your performance
The work in our fishbowls is self-representational. My choices reflect myself, my thoughts, my feelings. I want to express and convey myself as best as possible so my group members in the fishbowl really understand what why words mean. So I learned to choose every single word very carefully because words have impacts.
Widening your range of caring
“Eyes looking at eyes.” – Prof. Sanjiv
In the fishbowl we are interacting within our group. As we carefully select our words, we are widening the range of our thoughts and ultimately the range of caring. Sharing is caring.
Reorienting one's Vision: The Return
We are striving for deep learning. Deep learning requires us to actually look back at our work. We need to return to our work and revisit it. Our thoughts and feelings constantly change. When we look back, we’ll find what we might have missed and how everything fits together. Reflection is learning.
Recounting anecdotes and honoring lived experiences
I strongly believe that “constructing a meaningful reality” is essential for our understanding and learning process. In most classes we theorize too much. Theory and Reality are worlds apart from each other. The fishbowl allows us to connect theory and reality. We produce “theory which honors the details of our lived experiences.”
Constructing social memories
Creating a social memory among ourselves through blending together the past, present, and future. We are putting together our different views and representation in the fishbowl 10+1 steps. We connect with each other mostly through the felt-experiences. We get to know each other, learn about and how the past shaped our personality, how the present can be stressing, and what our plans for the future look like.
Cybernetics and your fishbowls
“The new is terrifying.” – Prof. Sanjiv
Especially in our age, the new can certainly be distressing and frightening. We have to make decisions that are going to have great impacts on our future. What do I want to do with my life? Where do I want to work? And I believe many of us are not 100% sure about all that yet. But that’s okay. All of us have our own clocks. Some tick faster than others. You can’t compare yourself with other people because their clocks are unlike yours.
Please fact-check your virtual products in your fishbowls
Without self-reflection there is no learning process. We need to go back to our work and acknowledge what we did, when did it, how we did it, and why we did it.
Complex adaptive systems: the art of improvisation
Our world is complex and constantly changing. The unpredictability causes uncertainty and chaos. Our world has become a “global society”. We are not limited to only interact with the people close to us. We have the abilities to connect with people worldwide. So many different traditions, values, and beliefs to learn from and adapt to. Always broaden your horizon.
The opening paragraphs
It is exciting to see the beginning paragraphs of the paper. While reading the introduction Prof. Sanjiv is taking me back to the start of the semester. To the very first class when he said “‘looking at you looking at me looking at you.” And I was confused, but today I understand.
Inching along on Friendship Abstract
Reading about the friendship abstract takes me back to our friendship exercise early on in the semester. It was the first time our team of 3 met and got to know each other. I remember it quite good and now I will go in the fishbowl to reflect again on how the 3 of us experienced this first meeting by reading our social meeting paper once again.
Framing the second abstract
To Sanjiv: Thank you for sharing your work progress on the abstracts! It is exciting to see how it develops and how much thought you are putting into it. I feel proud that all of our fishbowls are the fundament of it all!
It was good to see you again
“Sitting in the midst of our complexity, aware of every individual’s unique perception and potential is the reason it is 'good to see you again.’”- Prof. Sanjiv
It must be very interesting to read all of our fishbowls. We are reflecting on the same letters but it is fascinating that all of the reflections are different. We are unique and we don’t copy. We create our own work, which we are responsible for. I am sitting here writing these words. Nobody else. It is just me and my thoughts.
Selection, substitution, satisfaction
“Whenever you change the way you think, you change your life.” –Prof. Sanjiv
Very powerful words. It made me think and I fully agree with it. The way we approach and interact with the people around you, or if we are able to be tolerant, open-minded and avoid judgement or not. It affects and fundamentally changes how we experience life.
Looking at ourselves again
Our fishbowls certainly feel like a labyrinth at times. We get lost. But it is temporary. When we take a step back and reflect from distance, we’ll make sense of it. We connect the pieces and find our way.
Relevance
“We’re continuously reaping the whirlwind; the storm of ideas.” –Prof. Sanjiv
It is a difficult task to filter and select our ideas. We have to choose carefully to create something as meaningful and relevant as possible to get the most out of our ideas.
Relationships, not just parts
“It is about relationships not just parts.” –Prof. Sanjiv
Independent parts that are not connected with each other will not have the impact we want. It comes down on how we interrelated the different parts and form relationships between them to create value. In our fishbowls we are forming a symbiotic system full of cooperation and collaboration.
Reflecting on one's history
We should reflect on ourselves on a regular basis. With having same distance we are able to reflect more neutral on things and without as much emotional judgement. Reflection is the way to improvement.
Thoughts, the morning after thanksgiving
“Perspective requires distance. Once you become aware of that, it is easy. Give distance in time and space. I call it The Return to Look.” – Prof.Sanjiv
It is not always easy to do the right thing in the moment because our thoughts and emotions can be overwhelming. Distance allows to look back with a different perspective and allows you to see things in a different way, often a clearer and better way. You are able to analyze what happened and learn from it.
Maturity and The Fishbowl
“Maturity is the ability to live fully and equally in multiple contexts.”
I really like this wonderful quote from the poet and philosopher David Whyte. Maturity requires time and experience. There is a reason why older people are considered mature rather than younger ones. It is the learning and relearning that allows to experience things in different ways to become open-minded, tolerant, and more satisfied. You learn to see the world in a different light. You are able to filter out the really important things in live and live life to the fullest rather than wasting time on things that are not important to you.
Voguing
When googling Voguing I found that it is a highly stylized, modern house dance originating in the late 1980s that evolved out of the Harlem ballroom scene of the 1960s. The dance is full of expression and when I relate this to our fishbowl, we are expressing ourselves with every single word we select and write and create value through them.
Mutation/Motion
“What is currently happening in your fishbowls is a mutation of your experiences, perceptions, values, and modes of behavior, a mutation of your being-in-the-world.” –Prof. Sanjiv
By sharing our work with each other, we are sharing our experiences, perceptions, values and beliefs and we are transforming them into something with a new meaning.
Lost in words
When I am reading Sanjiv’s letters or the work from my peers in the fishbowl, I catch myself reading slowly and I often have to read the words more than one time to grasp the idea and be able to reflect on it. Especially with abstract sentences. I believe in general we don’t pay enough attention to reading anymore. We tend to skim through a book or text without experiencing the power of deep understanding.
Coming close to the end-1
“The production, reproduction, consumption, dissemination, and storage of text, images, and sounds increasingly rely on electronic devices, almost always nowadays in a digital format like your fishbowl.” –Prof. Sanjiv
We are living in a world controlled by technology. The fishbowl is a good example. We are able to connect and work with each other via the internet without the need to physically meet. However, the “media ecology” with all its benefits and perks pushes us more and more into isolation.
Coming close to the end-2
In this class we really kind of formed a new society. It has been interesting and exciting to follow how we worked and developed as a group. We were responsible for our own progress and learning. The felt-experiences allowed us to share some personal information and our thoughts and feelings with each other.
Action Learning
Action Learning is a process that involves a small group working on real problems, taking action, and learning as individuals, as a team, and as an organization. It helps organizations develop creative, flexible and successful strategies to pressing problems. This is what we did in the fishbowl with our 10+1 assignments.
We live in our constructions
“I also believe, expressing learning in words and metaphors is not an easy thing to do. We’re shy about it as humans.” –Prof. Sanjiv
I agree with this statement. Expressing ourselves in words and especially through metaphors requires a certain kind of confidence. Words are powerful and I believe nowadays people tend to avoid using metaphors and abstract sentences because they are afraid to be misunderstood.
“You are learning to sound like Yourselves.” –Prof. Sanjiv
To sound like ourselves we need to deconstruct the text. Every word we select and we take it further until we’re happy with the outcome. We should try not to theorize as much.
Further reflections on your performance
The work in our fishbowls is self-representational. My choices reflect myself, my thoughts, my feelings. I want to express and convey myself as best as possible so my group members in the fishbowl really understand what why words mean. So I learned to choose every single word very carefully because words have impacts.
Widening your range of caring
“Eyes looking at eyes.” – Prof. Sanjiv
In the fishbowl we are interacting within our group. As we carefully select our words, we are widening the range of our thoughts and ultimately the range of caring. Sharing is caring.
Reorienting one's Vision: The Return
We are striving for deep learning. Deep learning requires us to actually look back at our work. We need to return to our work and revisit it. Our thoughts and feelings constantly change. When we look back, we’ll find what we might have missed and how everything fits together. Reflection is learning.
Recounting anecdotes and honoring lived experiences
I strongly believe that “constructing a meaningful reality” is essential for our understanding and learning process. In most classes we theorize too much. Theory and Reality are worlds apart from each other. The fishbowl allows us to connect theory and reality. We produce “theory which honors the details of our lived experiences.”
Constructing social memories
Creating a social memory among ourselves through blending together the past, present, and future. We are putting together our different views and representation in the fishbowl 10+1 steps. We connect with each other mostly through the felt-experiences. We get to know each other, learn about and how the past shaped our personality, how the present can be stressing, and what our plans for the future look like.
Cybernetics and your fishbowls
“The new is terrifying.” – Prof. Sanjiv
Especially in our age, the new can certainly be distressing and frightening. We have to make decisions that are going to have great impacts on our future. What do I want to do with my life? Where do I want to work? And I believe many of us are not 100% sure about all that yet. But that’s okay. All of us have our own clocks. Some tick faster than others. You can’t compare yourself with other people because their clocks are unlike yours.
Please fact-check your virtual products in your fishbowls
Without self-reflection there is no learning process. We need to go back to our work and acknowledge what we did, when did it, how we did it, and why we did it.
Complex adaptive systems: the art of improvisation
Our world is complex and constantly changing. The unpredictability causes uncertainty and chaos. Our world has become a “global society”. We are not limited to only interact with the people close to us. We have the abilities to connect with people worldwide. So many different traditions, values, and beliefs to learn from and adapt to. Always broaden your horizon.
The opening paragraphs
It is exciting to see the beginning paragraphs of the paper. While reading the introduction Prof. Sanjiv is taking me back to the start of the semester. To the very first class when he said “‘looking at you looking at me looking at you.” And I was confused, but today I understand.
Inching along on Friendship Abstract
Reading about the friendship abstract takes me back to our friendship exercise early on in the semester. It was the first time our team of 3 met and got to know each other. I remember it quite good and now I will go in the fishbowl to reflect again on how the 3 of us experienced this first meeting by reading our social meeting paper once again.
Framing the second abstract
To Sanjiv: Thank you for sharing your work progress on the abstracts! It is exciting to see how it develops and how much thought you are putting into it. I feel proud that all of our fishbowls are the fundament of it all!
It was good to see you again
“Sitting in the midst of our complexity, aware of every individual’s unique perception and potential is the reason it is 'good to see you again.’”- Prof. Sanjiv
It must be very interesting to read all of our fishbowls. We are reflecting on the same letters but it is fascinating that all of the reflections are different. We are unique and we don’t copy. We create our own work, which we are responsible for. I am sitting here writing these words. Nobody else. It is just me and my thoughts.
Selection, substitution, satisfaction
“Whenever you change the way you think, you change your life.” –Prof. Sanjiv
Very powerful words. It made me think and I fully agree with it. The way we approach and interact with the people around you, or if we are able to be tolerant, open-minded and avoid judgement or not. It affects and fundamentally changes how we experience life.
Looking at ourselves again
Our fishbowls certainly feel like a labyrinth at times. We get lost. But it is temporary. When we take a step back and reflect from distance, we’ll make sense of it. We connect the pieces and find our way.
Relevance
“We’re continuously reaping the whirlwind; the storm of ideas.” –Prof. Sanjiv
It is a difficult task to filter and select our ideas. We have to choose carefully to create something as meaningful and relevant as possible to get the most out of our ideas.
Relationships, not just parts
“It is about relationships not just parts.” –Prof. Sanjiv
Independent parts that are not connected with each other will not have the impact we want. It comes down on how we interrelated the different parts and form relationships between them to create value. In our fishbowls we are forming a symbiotic system full of cooperation and collaboration.
Reflecting on one's history
We should reflect on ourselves on a regular basis. With having same distance we are able to reflect more neutral on things and without as much emotional judgement. Reflection is the way to improvement.
Thoughts, the morning after thanksgiving
“Perspective requires distance. Once you become aware of that, it is easy. Give distance in time and space. I call it The Return to Look.” – Prof.Sanjiv
It is not always easy to do the right thing in the moment because our thoughts and emotions can be overwhelming. Distance allows to look back with a different perspective and allows you to see things in a different way, often a clearer and better way. You are able to analyze what happened and learn from it.
Maturity and The Fishbowl
“Maturity is the ability to live fully and equally in multiple contexts.”
I really like this wonderful quote from the poet and philosopher David Whyte. Maturity requires time and experience. There is a reason why older people are considered mature rather than younger ones. It is the learning and relearning that allows to experience things in different ways to become open-minded, tolerant, and more satisfied. You learn to see the world in a different light. You are able to filter out the really important things in live and live life to the fullest rather than wasting time on things that are not important to you.
Voguing
When googling Voguing I found that it is a highly stylized, modern house dance originating in the late 1980s that evolved out of the Harlem ballroom scene of the 1960s. The dance is full of expression and when I relate this to our fishbowl, we are expressing ourselves with every single word we select and write and create value through them.
Mutation/Motion
“What is currently happening in your fishbowls is a mutation of your experiences, perceptions, values, and modes of behavior, a mutation of your being-in-the-world.” –Prof. Sanjiv
By sharing our work with each other, we are sharing our experiences, perceptions, values and beliefs and we are transforming them into something with a new meaning.
Lost in words
When I am reading Sanjiv’s letters or the work from my peers in the fishbowl, I catch myself reading slowly and I often have to read the words more than one time to grasp the idea and be able to reflect on it. Especially with abstract sentences. I believe in general we don’t pay enough attention to reading anymore. We tend to skim through a book or text without experiencing the power of deep understanding.
Coming close to the end-1
“The production, reproduction, consumption, dissemination, and storage of text, images, and sounds increasingly rely on electronic devices, almost always nowadays in a digital format like your fishbowl.” –Prof. Sanjiv
We are living in a world controlled by technology. The fishbowl is a good example. We are able to connect and work with each other via the internet without the need to physically meet. However, the “media ecology” with all its benefits and perks pushes us more and more into isolation.
Coming close to the end-2
In this class we really kind of formed a new society. It has been interesting and exciting to follow how we worked and developed as a group. We were responsible for our own progress and learning. The felt-experiences allowed us to share some personal information and our thoughts and feelings with each other.
Action Learning
Action Learning is a process that involves a small group working on real problems, taking action, and learning as individuals, as a team, and as an organization. It helps organizations develop creative, flexible and successful strategies to pressing problems. This is what we did in the fishbowl with our 10+1 assignments.
We live in our constructions
“I also believe, expressing learning in words and metaphors is not an easy thing to do. We’re shy about it as humans.” –Prof. Sanjiv
I agree with this statement. Expressing ourselves in words and especially through metaphors requires a certain kind of confidence. Words are powerful and I believe nowadays people tend to avoid using metaphors and abstract sentences because they are afraid to be misunderstood.