Connectedness
Attended a talk tonight with buddy Bill Lawrence by relationship expert and author, John Badalament, who argues that connectedness is key to relationships at work and home.
This he defines as “knowing and being known”, which parses out into shared insights into each other’s thought processes through the media of personal story telling. It’s going beyond talk that barely qualifies as texting or strident attempts to tell others how they should be going about their world. It’s knowing and being known without seeing each other as either audience to be entertained or problems to be fixed.
November 29th, 2007 11:05
I like this, Jack.
One of my favorite books in Jewish mysticism is Buber’s “I and Thou.” Much of the time we are in the objective mode “that sky is blue, the weather is cold, I like your jacket.” (I-It), When we are mindful of the source of the presence, the experience of relation to the person or thing is expansive, (I-Thou).
“The Thou steps forth to confront us in its uniqueness. It fills the firmament — not as if there were nothing else, but everything else lives in its light.” (excerpt from an English translation of I and Thou)
Objective Relation vs. Being Relation
Bounded vs. Connected
experience that is descriptive/objective/jud
November 29th, 2007 12:21
[that last partial sentence was a ‘technical’ error of the author — an uncensored incomplete thought…]