[From Hank Folson (920901)]
Dag Forssell (920830)-promoting PCT:
We need to reach people who are dissatisfied with what they can
accomplish, >people with a yearning for something better. A
dissatisfied person will be >open to suggestions and interested in
trying a different solution.
And later Dag says:
in collaboration with Hank Folson,
whom I am proud to have sponsored onto this net).
I am an anecdotal example of what Dag is talking about: I wonUt
embarrass Dag by listing all the different things he has tried to get
me interested in over the years, but there were many. I never acted on
any of them because I had no error signals that would be reduced by
his proposals. But when Dag first told me about PCT, I was looking for
a general theory of business management to help me run my business
better. I had an error signal, a dissatisfaction with what I saw in my
business experience and in the literature. PCT offered the hope of
reducing my error signal, and I have become a convert, although I
wonUt hound people at airports for donations, yet.
Dag Forssell (920830)-About Science:
Verbal exercises can be carried on indefinitely without any tests ever
possible.
Dag, if people are controlling for intellectual stimulation, more
interested in the hunt than the kill, they will happily do aerobic
verbal exercises forever.
A person who is interested in the kill and is controlling to get to
the meat of the matter can still appear to be willingly participating
in a never-ending verbal exercise. This is the result of not having an
effective strategy or techniques for communicating.
The first instance is not a serious problem on the net. The delete key
has been suggested before. The second case is harder. A useful thread
on the net would be the application of PCT principles to communication.
Teaching ourselves more effective PCT based communications skills could
really speed up the scientific process.
I am suggesting that those who have a soft science background and are
wrestling with PCT may have a greater personal challenge than those
with
a hard science background.
If you come from a world where soft narrative science is the norm, hard
science creates an error signal, which you will control to reduce. PCT
says you are asking a lot of someone to make that degree of change.
You need to experience PCT, in hard experiments and/or in your own
life.
PCT does not give easy answers. It tells us why and how the world
works, but it doesn't tell us directly how to apply this understanding.
Don't feel bad, Bill. I know that E=MC2, and I don't know what to do
with that either. My personal bias is to put more emphasis into
developing techniques for applying PCT.
Hank Folson, Henry James Bicycles, Inc.
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