Yesterday I had a day off work and enjoyed the luxury of sitting back, listening to people talk and reflecting on what they were saying.
I was attending TEDx Glasgow 2019. This is the third year I've managed to attend and was looking forward to hearing new ideas, thoughts and challenges from a variety of different speakers. And I also wanted to learn - so given the experience from the previous two events I ditched the social media and took a paper notebook and pen. And given that I am in the middle of learning and studying Systems Thinking I deliberately set out to listen to the different speakers to hear if they could offer me insight in this area.
In many of the presentations systems ideas and concepts were included and talked about - but (I would guess) not with purposeful intent. Comments included:
"because someone with power cannot see outside their own experiences" Amna Saleem
"if enough of us take that step it adds up to an enormous potential for change" Mark Logan
"living environmentally is infectious" Laura Young
"can we rediscover the skill of seeing patterns and making connections" David Allfrey
However, for me, the talk of the day was from Anand Menon, who with his example of Nora from Newcastle finally managed to make me appreciate the different worldview which could make someone choose to vote for Brexit.
An a non-systems thought. The theme of the day was 'Connections' - while there was material related to the impression I took was much more around gender issues.
