decision making – Dreamyoga

It is not unusual for groups of people to gather together and try to control what an individual outside of that group is doing. They may even have the illusion that said individual is keen or desperate to join their group as per the famous Garry Glitter song about gangs. Groups by their nature have real difficulty seeing and assimilating perspectives outside of the rarefied air of their Olympian group. We Gods know. The group may even believe that they know what is best for the “lucky” individual. Being quasi-corporate they can only see a quasi-corporate “answer” to whatever the imagined problem may be.

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They can get quite complacent if something approaching within-group consensus is found.

The problem is that they can be very mistaken and totally unaware. There is very little one can do when a group has made up its mind. Nietzsche is attributed this quotation.

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“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

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You can decide for yourself regarding some of the “sanity” currently coming out of the USA.

Groups may consider it sound to offer the lucky person a fait accompli. Having discussed only amidst themselves they may not consider how it might wash with an individual outside. Such a thing happened with the so-called peace efforts expecting Ukraine to suck it up and be grateful. The individual is then blamed and scapegoated for not accepting the divine arrogance of group omniscience.

“That pesky pleb should count his lucky stars!! He should be very grateful!!”

This phenomenon can be found on all sides in academia, industry, business, politics and amongst the righteous “they” down the pub.

Groups do not always make the best and most inclusive decisions because they cannot see outside their own Venn diagram walls. A collection of frogs at the bottom of a well, even though it may agree amongst itself, has not seen a pacific sunset nor has it gone on a silent retreat in the mountains for three years. It might imagine itself more knowledgeable and experienced than it actually is.

Groups with corporate mind always want to deal with other groups in which the socio-political hierarchy is known. They are obsessed with hierarchy and group positions. They struggle with even the notion of a non-affiliated individual. Group to group interaction can be even less inclusive. There are often power struggles and a great deal of negotiation. It is so often about power and preservation of status quo. It is about control.

The object of negotiation can be totally unaware of the blessings, he/she is about to receive.

People are people and the tendency is to do the same shit over and over.

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Quite a while back someone suggested to me that I write a course on “Decision Making” and stupidly I accepted. Without blowing my own trumpet unduly, that course is widely applicable up to the very highest levels. But of course, no big-wig or big-cheese, would ever accept that they need to learn and otherwise be educated about their quasi-divine decision making.

I use this little slide to frame things.

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At the moment various indicators are incoming apropos of an impending decision.

I’ll speculate that I am way more decisive than average and that I am unafraid to make unilateral decisions. I rarely feel the need to discuss, chin-wag or otherwise chew things over. This appears to surprise some.

To give an example.

A few months back I had a zoom call with a European VC I was acquainted with a long time ago. I was seeking clarity as to how the VC community might see me based upon my past enterprises and what to do with my current circumstances. He said that, based upon the narrative I gave him about a company I co-founded, I would be considered “difficult” to work with and that “French deals don’t travel”. He hinted at “reputation” but would not be pressed. On this basis I dropped any plan to look for VC funding to start a company and shelved the faint notion of a France based start-up. The omens are not good. There are barriers, showstoppers from the get-go.

One can not always know when one is aiding / advising a decision. It can be unwitting or conscious. One could be a deciding factor without having any idea thereof.

The recent CAT / CT scan data concerning a largely fused thoracic spine consistent with a diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) diagnosis is a factor to add to the decision making funnel. There is no treatment, it will only get worse. This is a factor suggesting that house downsize increases in importance. This DISH will not ameliorate my COPD as the bony growth is already impinging on my right lung.

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Soon we will test the back to blighty notion with a visit to Jersey to see how it feels to be surrounded by people largely anglophone. This notion points at moving to a low-cost, less desirable, region of the UK property market. A significant contrary factor is the anecdotal poor state of the NHS. The French system has been very generous to us in terms of funding and accessibility to care and prompt diagnostics.

We are in a beggars cannot be choosers state in that we don’t have hundreds of thousands of pounds to pay for private healthcare. Things here are in motion and work well. Don’t fix what is not broken.

There are no real personal anchors for us here, to keep us tethered. A lot is due to happen in the next month or so and that is when the funnel will close. This blog and my patent are up for renewal, for example.

Things, whatever they may be, are coming to a head, or in other terms the funnel is starting to pinch. These funnels are unidirectional and not reversible.

The feeling is that “things” are coming to a head. The fact that I looked out the slide above is indicative…

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Coming to a Head – Decisions