Thinking on the Edge
Would you like to be in the middle or the extreme ends? Is there a simple and scientific approach? How answering these questions will help us improve our thinking and hence our actions? I promise the reader a soft sailing in attempting to answer these questions and then deriving the appropriate conclusions.
I am thinking of the edges between many things that we do in our lives without consideration for those edges. I shall show by examples what I mean. Let us fill a beaker with tangible things first, water to begin with. The water molecules in the body of water are bonded to each other except for those molecules at the surface (the edge between water molecules and surrounding air). The water molecules at the surface are tensed because the underneath water molecules pulls them downwards. To reduce this pulling water molecules at the surface take a spherical shape. Being in the "bulk" is different from being on the edge.
If we add oil to water without stirring then we shall have a new edge between water and oil. All oil molecules and water molecules are surrounded by similar molecules except for those on the "meeting edge". It is by stirring that causes oil to disperse as droplet in water. Now, we may visualize filling the beaker with other tangible and intangible inhomogeneous bodies.
The edge between each pair of opposites may not be visible or it could be rugged as well.
In each case, or would it be better: to be immersed in one half of the beaker or to be on the edge of opposites? Or do you prefer to be on the tensed edge or in the calmness of the bulk? Would you be immersed fully in the past, the future or in the edge of the present? Would you rather be in the order of whatever it is such as the order of learning or the disorder of searching?
To be fully immersed in the bulk of waters shall deprive you from the challenge of the tension on the edge of opposites. The edge between being a solid or gas (liquid) is where real life takes place. Chemists know well that rapid changes take place in the liquid phase because you need the reactants to collide and also move away so that other molecules may collide and the reaction may propagate. We need our ideas to collide and propagate and this possibility shall be reduced if we are "solid-like" or "gaseous" in our exchanges of ideas. We need to learn from our collisions and move on temporarily to the gaseous or solid states so that other ideas may collide. We need to have to the chaotic collisions of ideas in our searches for reality, but also we need the order of learning. Things happen at the edges and then we move away to one region so that we may put what we searched in order and then as new searches reveal new findings we need again to re-learn. In the continuous cycle of searching and learning we need to stay on the edge separating them because there is the creative edge.
We may stir our edges and form droplets of oily ideas in the waters of our thinking. We disperse our thinking and create new situations that may lead us to further discoveries. It is not planning or not planning as much as staying on the edge of the two opposites. Any other approach is only pleasing our comfort zones and swimming in calm waters.
If there is no visible edge I shall try to create an invisible one to stay on the edge.
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Sara Jacobovici
منذ 7 سنوات #41
#63 Your kind words Ali Anani, encourage me to keep at it. Thank you.
Ali Anani
منذ 7 سنوات #40
Dear Sara Jacobovici last buzz on which I commented and I feel this ideas takes us even a step further. Great thinking
Sara Jacobovici
منذ 7 سنوات #39
Sara Jacobovici
منذ 7 سنوات #38
Great Irene Hackett! Thanks
Sara Jacobovici
منذ 7 سنوات #37
Dear Irene Hackett, I'm not forgetting for a moment that the idea comes from you. If you wish to expand on it...after all we believe that good things come in threes.
Sara Jacobovici
منذ 7 سنوات #36
I trust your intuition Ali Anani's idea worth exploring.
Ali Anani
منذ 7 سنوات #35
Ali Anani
منذ 7 سنوات #34
"...On the edge in order to live fully and love deeply"- stunning quote from your comment dear Irene Hackett- Yes, avoiding being on the edge is a recipe for missing many beauties in our lives. Thanks to this 'edge" that brought this super comment from you my dear sister.
Ali Anani
منذ 7 سنوات #33
mohammed khalaf
منذ 7 سنوات #32
Ali Anani
منذ 7 سنوات #31
Ali Anani
منذ 7 سنوات #30
I feel I have the wings dear mohammed khalaf
Ali Anani
منذ 7 سنوات #29
I wouldn't say scary as much it is a blessing dear Sara Jacobovici. I have read a lot of your writings and I sense what interests you
mohammed khalaf
منذ 7 سنوات #28
Sara Jacobovici
منذ 7 سنوات #27
#25 It's scary how well you know me Ali Anani's comment I thought of the spaces referred to by Mozart, “The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.” And Frankl, "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." With CityVP Manjit, I had already replied before I read your comment.
Sara Jacobovici
منذ 7 سنوات #26
"The irony of our age is that we are becoming more innovative as a human race yet also less adaptive." Great line CityVP Manjit. I agree 100%. Although less adaptive, it is interesting for me to witness what forms the adaptations take on. They seem to reflect the dissociative state and sensory diminished environment which produced them.
Sara Jacobovici
منذ 7 سنوات #25
Thanks Irene Hackett. Your blessing reached me across cyber space!
🐝 Fatima G. Williams
منذ 7 سنوات #24
Thank you Franci Eugenia Hoffman A little bit of pollen dust from all of you " Makes this bee buzz happily 🤗🤗👌👌
Ali Anani
منذ 7 سنوات #23
Thank you dear Fatima Fatima Williams. It is mind-boggling and it is still living vividly in my mind.
Ali Anani
منذ 7 سنوات #22
Ali Anani
منذ 7 سنوات #21
Dear Fatima Williams- the more I read your comment, the more respect and admiration I have for you. This time you put me on the edge with this brilliant segment of your comment "enable us to search , learn and adapt rather than adjust". This is a stinkingly tremendous comment and I agree. I love the way you put it. I agree with what you wrote about the deep thinker dear CityVP Manjit and I highlight his name to draw his attention to your mention of him.
🐝 Fatima G. Williams
منذ 7 سنوات #20
Deb Lange The metaphor of swimming to this buzz is mind-blowing such an intruging interesting fantabulous comment 🤗🤗👌👌
🐝 Fatima G. Williams
منذ 7 سنوات #19
Sara Jacobovici I enjoyed your comment as it kinda speaks what I feel as well. As long as we don't isolate a state of being, an idea, experience or learning, but move it with us, carry it over, that is when the sum becomes larger than the parts. That's when we become whole .
🐝 Fatima G. Williams
منذ 7 سنوات #18
Ali Anani Thank you for this brilliant edgy buzz. Reading this intruging buzz wakes up my spirit and the edges of my mind have been brushed up with the bristles( questions/tensions ) of this buzz. The edges we choose to be on should be the ones that enable us to search , learn and adapt rather than adjust.The creative edge will ensure that we blossom by exploring the edges of certainity with our mind that have questions of uncertainty that we can discern only by further exploration and collision. I'm on the edge of your buzzes enjoying absorbing and so on. I have not touched all the edges and my learning continues. Thank you for being awesome 🤗🤗 I love City VP Manjits comment too "We give up the adaptive for the bulk " and we have unexplored edges ! A mind blowing comment as always ⛤⛤⛤⛤⛤
Ali Anani
منذ 7 سنوات #17
Deep and profound your thinking is dear Mohammed Sultan. I appreciate your mind and how it thinks. Yes, on the edge is to be under dynamic tension. You can't win in life without paying a price. You know that Newton's Laws work for average (bulk) conditions, but they fail on the edge. The dynamics are different. I am going to write my next buzz on the flow of information and how it differs on moving from the bulk to the edges. For now, I say having one foot here and one there is like having one foot in chilled water and the other foot in boiling water. How to adjust, learn and move on is a real challenge. One question my friend- do leaders stay in the bulk or on the edges? That is why great leaders are great sufferers too.
Ali Anani
منذ 7 سنوات #16
Ali Anani
منذ 7 سنوات #15
And an important and assuring feedback from you dear Aurorasa Sima
Ali Anani
منذ 7 سنوات #14
Thank you dear Amina Alami for your great support and appreciation. You know of my respect to your great mind.
Ali Anani
منذ 7 سنوات #13
Dear CityVP Manjit to comment on "The irony of our age is that we are becoming more innovative as a human race yet also less adaptive. The people who innovate are the few that are on the edge, but the people who consume are in the bulk". Your second very relevant point is related to social media " We may say we have an affinity with innovation or an affinity with the cutting edge, but the patterns of our digital expressions and movements reveal us.". This paragraph is hugely relevant to beBee being tan affinity social network. I have more to say, but first I invite beBee to give due consideration to this segment of the comment.
Ali Anani
منذ 7 سنوات #12
Dea Franci Eugenia Hoffman- you raise a great question on fractals and that I shall address soon in a dedicated buzz. Meanwhile, I love your comment for the present shall be soon the past. The edge is a moveable one and you raise a greatly important point. I appreciate beyond appreciation your sharing of the buzz. Big Thank You
Ali Anani
منذ 7 سنوات #11
My dear friend David Grinberg- with such support from you do I have another choice than keep buzzing on? I greatly appreciate your supportive comment
Ali Anani
منذ 7 سنوات #10
You raise a hugely important point dear Jeet Sarkar and I strongly advise you developing your comment into a buzz
Ali Anani
منذ 7 سنوات #9
It is unbelievable your depth of understanding dear Deb Helfrich shall pause on this quote. I am really honored by your comment dear Deb
Ali Anani
منذ 7 سنوات #8
CityVP Manjit
منذ 7 سنوات #7
David B. Grinberg
منذ 7 سنوات #6
Ali Anani
منذ 7 سنوات #5
Ali Anani
منذ 7 سنوات #4
Enjoy your holiday Sara Jacobovici as much as I enjoyed our comment. You said it all and your comment makes all the sense in the world. Yes, we need to learn and move what we learn with us. Very powerful idea
Sara Jacobovici
منذ 7 سنوات #3
Ali Anani
منذ 7 سنوات #2
Brilliant! Brilliant! I could keep repeating brilliant your comment is Deb Lange hundreds of times. Your metaphor describes the buzz beautifully. I love it for it is a green metaphor. More, it is a liquid metaphor. It is a living metaphor. Water is the essence of life. Brilliant because it puts the two opposites Calmness and agitation in the proximity of each other. Brilliant because it describes the challenges, the learning and adaptive possibilities and the resulting resilience. I fail to thank you enough for writing such a great and probing comment.
Ali Anani
منذ 7 سنوات #1