My personal take is that for any given task, our minds constantly shift between two modes: review and do. Review-mode give us perspective on the big picture and keeps us on track toward reaching our destination. Do-mode is focused on implementation—building, typing, moving pixels and making changes.
The circumstances of women’s lives…provide examples for new ways of thinking about the lives of both men and women. What are the possible transfers of learning when life is a collage of different tasks? How does creativity flourish on distraction? And at what point does desperate improvisation become significant achievement?
Mary Catherine Bateson, daughter of Margaret Mead, whose book of social anthropology, Composing a Life, is giving me far too much to think about right now. (via rach)
that last sentence/question is hitting home for me this week.
