We drove our daughter to college and after all the setting-up and figuring-out of the ways and means of day one, we hugged her with a flow of goodbye tears. Her mom made an interesting departing comment, “Don’t let them ever change who you are or your heart.”
Later, I thought about this exhortation. Our daughter, since the moment she could handle toys and objects, was able to step into her imagination without us leading her. She was developing her fierce imagination, day after day; it’s who she was and still is as a new college student. It was her joy to imagine the social aspect of groups of toy objects, Disney dolls and dollhouses with play characters living as if real. They would talk, move about, shop, dress-up, and sleep – everything real, hour after hour. Positioning was fundamental; how she arranged characters together in her toy houses.
You know my question already. How’s your fierce imagination playing out? I’m only asking because, like air in our lungs, we have unique imaginations able to breathe life to our aspirations. There's another reason if I’m being honest. That is, the ongoing narrative surrounding employment where we most often project imagination is acting-out battlefield scenarios where the new cultural scientists, digital technologists and psychological health assessors join forces to profile workers. Genomic profiling could only be the next flank to strategically surround a job candidate - it's not far off.
So much programmable science and brain theory aligning intelligence to pure brain functions, is forcing companies to re-evaluate skills and education and experiences. Here, I'm referring to the enterprise software used by colleges and by HR, all mere algorithmic analysis tools.
Businesses may want the next big thing but until they grasp the next big team, the next big group, the next big break-out dynamics from within a team - they'll just wing-it with randomized personal data. Where is the fierce and creative imagination in that?
RPW@2017
Later, I thought about this exhortation. Our daughter, since the moment she could handle toys and objects, was able to step into her imagination without us leading her. She was developing her fierce imagination, day after day; it’s who she was and still is as a new college student. It was her joy to imagine the social aspect of groups of toy objects, Disney dolls and dollhouses with play characters living as if real. They would talk, move about, shop, dress-up, and sleep – everything real, hour after hour. Positioning was fundamental; how she arranged characters together in her toy houses.
You know my question already. How’s your fierce imagination playing out? I’m only asking because, like air in our lungs, we have unique imaginations able to breathe life to our aspirations. There's another reason if I’m being honest. That is, the ongoing narrative surrounding employment where we most often project imagination is acting-out battlefield scenarios where the new cultural scientists, digital technologists and psychological health assessors join forces to profile workers. Genomic profiling could only be the next flank to strategically surround a job candidate - it's not far off.
So much programmable science and brain theory aligning intelligence to pure brain functions, is forcing companies to re-evaluate skills and education and experiences. Here, I'm referring to the enterprise software used by colleges and by HR, all mere algorithmic analysis tools.
Businesses may want the next big thing but until they grasp the next big team, the next big group, the next big break-out dynamics from within a team - they'll just wing-it with randomized personal data. Where is the fierce and creative imagination in that?
RPW@2017
