Tap Confusion - Get rid of the Stupor

I desperately need to shake myself out of this stupor. Its been more than a month since I blogged.

However, please do not confuse me for one of 'those' who deem their self worth directly proportional to the extent of discipline they are able to incorporate into their lives.

I on the other hand 'desperately need to shake myself out of this stupor' because, I really need to channelize my thoughts right. I have been intending on writing.... but have over/cross and scrape-the-dead-skin analyzed what I thought fitting to write about. And, it really is no surprise that I came up with....... (drum rolls) Nada!

I want to somehow shake myself out of "structure". Chaos, brings out the best in many of us. Since Axiom's I been captivated by 'Integrative thinking'. Its time to translate my thought into action.

Fitzgerald said that "the ability to hold two opposing ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function, is the sign of a truly intelligent individual"

Integrative Thinking defines this very trait. It harps on the importance of maintaining two opposing ideas in the mind and creatively resolving the tension between them. Thus, the practitioner is able to generate a new idea that contains elements of the others, but is superior to both.

The genesis of this school of thought, as oft stated, goes back to nature. This is an extract from Roger Martin's work on Integrative thinking. Very simplisticaly it is the purpose of the Opposable Thumb.

Human beings are distinguished from nearly every other creature by a physical feature: the opposable thumb.

Thanks to the tension that we can create by opposing the thumb and fingers, we can do marvelous things—write, thread a needle, guide a catheter through an artery. Although evolution provided human beings with this potential advantage, it would have gone to waste if our species had not exercised it in ever more sophisticated ways. When we engage in something like writing, we train the muscles involved and the brain that controls them. Without exploring the possibilities of opposition, we wouldn’t have developed either its physical properties or the cognition that accompanies and animates it.

But I digress... I draw strength from Integrative thinking and hence intend on utilising it constructively. Since my absence from the blogpsphere has been due to lack of clarity and not lack of visibility, it can be worked upon relatively comfortably.

I intend on whipping the prodigal rabbit outa the hat, with the cacophony that reveberates in my puny little mind. :)

Good Luck to me? Indeed!

PS: Anyone, who cares to point out the white elephant in this post?