What about the Fish – Think different!
What I’m telling is not the truth, it is maybe even not a message but just an idea.
The bowl is the metaphor for our brain and the fish represents our mind. This picture shows a fish jumping out of a bowl and we do not have any idea about what can happen to the fish? Mr. Holzh?user https://de.linkedin.com/pub/bernd-holzh%C3%A4user/a9/81a/263 was commenting this picture with: “the fish is flying above his horizon” and this is not a bad idea in my opinion. Some other people get afraid: is this fish suicidal?
We all see the same picture but have different associations with it. Can you imagine two people in an elevator? The elevator stopped because of an emergency. One person is absolutely relaxed and happy that the safety-system works and the other person is totally afraid because of the unexpected stop. Same situation but different ways of thinking. It is not the situation that makes us afraid, it is what our mind creates out of it. Well, our mind is not a fish and it cannot die when it leaves the bowl, i.e. the standard path of thinking.
If we just focus on our career, we may jump from one bowl right into another glass.
To open our eyes for nature can help us to come back to the “real” things.
Also, it seems a good idea to me to skip the thinking traffic and the virtual world from time to time.
I wish us all a clear and open mind and let us try to think different - some time!
…I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.
(Part of “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173536
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Long,_and_Thanks_for_All_the_Fish
Let us all try to keep a positive and tolerant way of thinking, so let’s take care of our "mind-cats"!
Product Manager
9 年If you can post some Fish pictures with a "Mind-Story" I would appreciate!
Service CRM process Manager EMEA chez Sysmex Europe
9 年Really nice article and teasing! Always good to take a step back to think different. Thanks!
Senior Software Engineer | Tinkerer | Change Maker
9 年Its a very good metaphor. Its difficult for our mind to jump in the universal or cosmic mind but if it is capable of doing so, then it can get amazing ideas from that unkown world. Which could lead us to travel the less travelled path.