Post by donq on Jul 15, 2023 18:43:34 GMT
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Recently, I had a problem again with pouring ketchup and finally had to find my answer. One of its solutions is, for example, the Heinz, there is a number 57 above the label, just below the neck which may just be the sweet spot to tap to get an easy portion of ketchup, every time.
It reminds me of something I read a long time ago (30 years ago): CHANGE: Principles of Problem Formulation and Problem Resolution by Paul Watzlawick, John Weakland and Richard Fisch
Here's the book's highlight:
...formulating and applying a four-step procedure. The steps are:
1) a clear definition of the problem in concrete terms;
2) an investigation of the solutions attempted so far;
3) a clear definition of the concrete change to be achieved;
4) the formulation and implementation of a plan to produce this change.
(writers' also note here: Only long after we had systematized our approach in this way did we realize that we had, without blasphemic malice aforethought, plagiarized the four Noble Truths of Buddhism, namely: of suffering, of the origin of suffering, of the cessation of suffering, and of the path leading to the cessation of suffering. On reflection this is not too surprising, since the basic teachings of Buddhism are eminently practical and existential.)
Anyway, the ketchup's right solution above (the) Heinz is just something they called, "first-order change". And...
...To exemplify this distinction in more behavioral terms: a person having a nightmare can do things in his dream—run, hide, fight, scream, jump off a cliff, etc.—but no change from any one of these behaviors to another would ever terminate the nightmare. We shall henceforth refer to this kind of change as first-order change. The one way out of a dream involves a change from dreaming to waking. Waking, obviously, is no longer a part of the dream, but a change to an altogether different state. This kind of change will from now on be referred to as second-order change.
Second-order change is thus change of change...
For example, when I feel hungry, I eat (first-order change). But if after I ate I'm still hungry, then, I need to try "the change of change
" or second-order change. It has nothing to do with food and hunger anymore. But something else.
And I believe whoever seeks spirituality is trying to do a change of change.
