Hidden Complexity
Hold a place in your mind for the hidden complexity that you have yet to understand.
to keep our minds open to new ideas—Uncertain Knowing—we need to be comfortable with embracing uncertainty and the Fundamental Mystery of universe.
When we don’t know how much we don’t know, we think we know all there is to know and we stop growing.
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There is value in knowing how little we know. And there is comfort in knowing that we can never know everything, even about things we think we know a lot about.
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Latent knowledge is information that you realize must exist, but you can’t get to it right away… or maybe ever. You might hear it described as “holding a question in your mind” or “holding contradictory ideas.” In both cases, we don’t have answers, but we have placeholders for answers. Creating those placeholders is important. It allows us to stay in a place of uncertainty, keeping our minds open.
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In the bigger sense, its knowing that just by the nature of our limited senses and minds, we cannot know everything about anything. This is a basic principle of epistemology, the study of knowledge.
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Revel in the fact that everything is more complex than it seems and resist the temptation to oversimplify or close an idea to further development.
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Visualization: Imagine a space in your mind that enfolds what you think you know: that place is the hidden complexity that you have yet to understand.
Therefore:
Hold a place in your mind for the hidden complexity that you have yet to understand.
Accepting that you don’t have all the facts makes it easier to give people the benefit of the doubt—Regenerative Meaning