@Candide, I appreciate your efforts in taking and coordinating this initiative to conduct an MMG through the forums in the wake of the discussion on avoiding darknetting ERE, and while navigating a demanding life period.
So far, the experiment has run through a cycle of gaining and losing momentum (or should I say gumption).
I can't fully wrap my head around this development nor put my finger on a single/simple reason for the prolonged collective silence, but I'm pretty sure this was not for lack of coordination.
I'm not certain there is a definite conclusion here. It may well be that threads are threads and MMGs are something else entirely that needs some private space, as AxelHeyst points out, but even if that were the case, I think there is value to arrive at such an insight through lived experience, especially when group dynamics are involved. We had to try it.
There's this quote from James Clear in Atomic Habits that I found quite fitting (and funny in this context):
You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.
Replace goals with web of goals, and it "clicks".
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THREAD NAME AND WHAT'S NEXT
I'm okay with the suggested name change and to move the thread someplace else. Could also edit the title like so: "Moving from WL 5 to 6" or just drop "MMMG" from the current title.
Maybe it is also a good time to ask whether we would like to create a more canonical MMG out of this or leave it as is and continue from here.
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PERSONALLY
To relate my personal experience, because I cannot speak for anyone else:
As I have already expressed this, participating has been valuable for me, and has prompted a lot of reading and thinking/strategizing. I have not followed through with posting WOGs and reverse fishbones, but at some point, the whole point of going from 5 to 6 appeared to boil down to further developing the nodes/modules and their connections through focussed and mindful execution/hands on approach with a view at increasing integration and application of systems thinking.
At some point (around the end of January), I had to move from the drawing board back to the actual field work before returning to adjust the model and so on and so forth.
This meant that I had done enough internal mental sketching/journaling to know what I should be "doing", but needed more "time" to fully articulate this into a WOG. More time/availability that I didn't grant myself, because I chose instead to engage with my projects and start implementing things.
While the exercise of thinking in terms of WOG/reverse fishbone diagrams sometimes felt like just spelling out what was already in place (and creating a blueprint after the fact doesn't feel that useful), it did lead to some insights, especially when considering connections between modules and "what's missing",
Systems tend to be in constant flux, always evolving, and life can be beautifully messy. I find that planning and trying to build too much structure and formality into the process has its limits for me. I have been too rigid in the past and now look to strike a good/better balance.
All this to say my focus has since shifted to pursuing/doing stuff, which party explains my silence. I could also speak about my failures, but that angle doesn't have much juice left
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QUESTIONS
With the above in mind, and to get the ball rolling again, my question(s) to fellow thread members would be:
What are you "doing"? What are the areas (renaissance education domains, skills, etc.) that you are actively pursuing? What changes have you initiated since this thread has started, maybe in the context of this move towards WL 6 and above?
