If you don't make mistakes, you're doing it wrong. If you don't correct those mistakes...

06.06.2010

SCIENCE:
If you don't make mistakes, you're doing it wrong.
If you don't correct those mistakes, you're doing it really wrong.
If you can't accept that you're mistaken, you're not doing it at all.

The Alexander-Technique in three sentences - brilliant!

The above text is a statement about science and scientific principles. But why is this also a spot-on definition of Alexander-Technique?

Well, F. M. Alexander always contended that the Alexander-Technique be a scientific method in the sense that it it uses reasoned-out hypotheses (in "Alexander-speak": the means-whereby with inhibition and direction) and put them to the test in empiric experiments (i.e. in daily life).

Do those hypotheses work reliably or not? Can the results be re-produced? If not, go back, check your hypotheses and make modifications!

More to the point: Learn to make mistakes!

F. M. Alexander even said (I paraphrase):

Don't come to me for lessons unless you're ready to make mistakes and be happy about it!

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Jun 06, 2010

Franis Engel said...

Everyone is wrong because we all have a limited point of view by nature of it's point in time, to varied degrees.

Wrong in relationship to it's point in our lives, it's point in relation to our experience or lack of it - our ability to carry through on our knowledge or skill and many other factors.

Defining something as "not making sense", chaotic, divine or magical is usually because we do not perceive or understand it's organization - yet. This urge to define is both what makes us wrong -and write. ;o) Or Right and Rong. Or Rightly Rung.
;o)

Edward de Bono, grandfather of lateral thinking, calls being right "using proto-truth." Meaning, we use the best, most operative truth known for now.

It's a happy thing to realize one's wrongness - especially when the surprise comes from a perceptual mistake. Wrong is an education - now you can make it right. Whereas before you could not percieve the difference that made a difference. Or you didn't care to make it right because right is too costly.

As my mechanical friends say: Proper maintenance is usually less expensive than repair.

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