The purpose of 59 Second Training is to compress SOT ideas and insights into an ultrashort course that can then be unpacked by SOT instructors in their longer courses.
Today we will discuss the Introduction.
The Introduction is:
Thinking, in any situation, is escaping from your current view of the situation (cvs), and searching for a much better view of the situation (bvs).
DFQ:
What, for you, has been the main insight of this idea?
Here’s a poster on cvs2bvs …
While in theory it sounds quite simple to switch from one parallell universe to another – in practice it does not always come that easily. We often become accepting of certain things over time and forget about improvement, or making things better. We just get lost or caught up in the here and now and therefore stop seeking a better way or a BVS. Worse still, if we are in a group of people who tend to think the same way then collectively we all stop looking for improved ways. Having the ability to automatically apply CVS2BVS takes practice, means breaking out of the norm and starting to challenge others who are “stuck” where they are. Encouraging others to move from CVS2BVS and then acknowledging the result and celebrating the move is a great way to begin to instill CVS2BVS as a standard way of thinking. Not everyone wants to escape – as they have spent so long defending their thoughts that they forget what it is like to escape. It is a real breakthrough when you see somebody make the switch themselves and then notice that they have done it – all by themselves, survived the experience and actually enjoyed the outcome!
The brains filing cabinett stores information for easy lookup, often based on the CVS. In my creative work we try to associate the problem at hand with how similar problem in other areas have been solved. This helps to find the BVS. For me the CVS2BVS
is technices to do exactly that.
escape… look at the problem or cvs from different angels
search…. where else is this occuring, what have been done there…
The Current View of the Situation is alive and well, stable but subject to change in moments. Having an open mind and quiet, it can become a Better View of the Situation and updated to a new Current view without any great effort. Awareness and that Open Mind afore mentioned. Even my response here has passed through a few views. Recently I was asked to explain an earlier statement, that you don’t lose in an argument, (discussion). The opposing argument gives me an opening for a Better View perhaps, a win. If my argument remains the better, and remains Current, there’s no loss. Still a win because there will be a Better View of my argument, for me, if not X10 yet.
Escape at all times makes( movement) you more flexible at all times as the mind become more powerful with flexibility.
This insight really give some thoughtfulness to all matters that comes to your attention.
There have been many benefits in using CVS to BVS. The most significant has been the realisation that I have more time than I realise to make a decision.
Apart from the decision itself, in using CVS to BVS, it also helps me control the timing of the move I decide to make.
To move from the current view of the situation, takes less than a second.
To actualy do it can take upwards of twenty years.
How quick do you need to move. from cvs2bvs, i find as fast as your prepared to E S T. a bvs.
for me ..
the movement (of thinking) is like surfing, particularly, that moment , when you catch the wave..
The main insight I’ve noticed is how little time I spend in defending a CVS, rather time is invested in thinking and continuing searching for Ever Better ideas and actions to produce ever better results.
I enjoy the concept of motion in the previous comment..I would add, that by this motion, a myriad of pathways leading to infinite possibilities, tailored to the individual and his unique position then become available.
For me, one of the main insights is that ‘thinking is movement’. It’s not just taking a position and then defending that position. It’s more than that. It’s ‘going beyond’. It’s moving away.