Knowledge Under Pressure
On Storytelling and What Comes Next
Field notes from what we’ve been up to, what we’ve been taking in, and what we are thinking about at The Emergency Mind Project.
If you have ideas or things you’d like to see — or if you want to help and get more involved — I’d love to hear from you: dan@emergencymind.com
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EP 75: Clare Murphy on Story and Meaning
Storyteller Clare Murphy on the power of story to teach, explore our world, and start to understand ourselves.
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The Zwicky box: a powerful method for problem solving and creativity
Feels fitting for the last Emergency Mind Project newsletter of the year to bring a tool focused on thinking creatively about the future. The Zwicky box is a really interesting idea about how to expand the solution space to a problem. It’s definitely an off-the-X tool since there’s a lot of combinatorial / slow thinking involved, but it’s absolutely worth exploring for your team as you hit the new year thinking about ways to improve and grow.
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We’ve talked before about training being for certainty and education being for uncertainty. With 2023 just around the corner, it’s a good time…
