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Beyond the Moment: How Visual Artifacts Preserve Understanding
Have you ever left a meeting feeling aligned with everyone, only to discover later that you can’t reconstruct what you heard? The clarity that felt so palpable in the moment somehow evaporates when you try to explain it to someone else or apply it yourself. I am not talking about mindlessly…
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Why Great Ideas Often Stay Trapped in Our Heads (And How to Get Them Out!)
Picture this: You’ve solved a tricky problem and someone asks, “How did you figure that out?” You launch into an explanation, eager to share your process. But as you speak, you find yourself jumping between ideas, backtracking to add forgotten details, and watching confusion grow on their face. What made…
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Mindful Modeling: Balancing Context and Focus
My friend and co-facilitator of the Mindfulness and Modeling discussion group, Suzan Quick, recently shared an excerpt from Alan Watts’ lecture on “Seeing the Background” that has been sticking in my head. In it, Watts discusses how we can’t truly see or understand something without considering its context – its…