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Emergent Strategy Response

Answers to Emergent Strategy Responses

Introduction 

“I often feel I am trapped inside someone else’s imagination, and I must engage my own imagination in order to break free” (18)

  • Q: Have you felt trapped inside of someone else’s imagination? How have you broken free?

I didn’t feel much from this line at first – I consider myself an imaginative person, and spend a lot of time in my own head. But as I read the rest of brown’s introduction and her love of science fiction, it occurred to me, that the time I spend thinking is kind of centered around what currently is rather than what could be. I am still working on ways to break free into my own imagination, but do feel that engaging in creativity helps – whether it be my own, or enjoying someone else’s work. Also, sometimes yoga or mediation helps me feel more connected to something greater.

Elements

  • Q: Without overthinking it: which of these elements brown describes most immediately feels evident as part of your creative work, and how? Or, if none of them do, which feels like one you might intentionally integrate, and why?

The element I first felt a connection to was Non-linear and Iterative, specifically focusing on the iterative piece. In my technical work, iteration is key. Everything I do is adding one small piece to my software, making sure I don’t break the other pieces of the system, and slowly building something new. I also identify with this way of thinking in my personal life, and seem to embrace iteration as a mean to problem solve. If there is something in my life that feels difficult or unsettled, I try to make a small change to see if I can feel some sort of improvement, before making bigger, drastic changes. brown’s inclusion of the work “non-linear” in this element also feels very important. I feel strongly that many experiences we have in life fit together in a non-linear fashion. The way we learn, grow, fall in love, etc. However, that non-linearity is sometimes difficult for our logical brains to absorb and follow. Oftentimes, I catch myself feeling unfulfilled, unsatisfied or despondent about changes in my life when I’m not able to plot them linearly. This is definitely something I’d like to work on, and explore more. I wonder if to better understand non-linear concepts, it is helpful to put them in the context of a greater system. Perhaps this is brown’s point

1 thought on “Emergent Strategy Response”

  1. “sometimes yoga or mediation helps me feel more connected to something greater.” You’ve created the conditions for open-ended thinking in an intimate manner – which is extremely important. What I am excited for you is how you might develop even more expansion through research and dialogue with others.

    I wonder if allowing yourself to disrupt your careful, thoughtful practice of slowly building might create entirely different frameworks.

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