Standing on Nothing In order to deal with something new that is for you at first counter-intuitive, that is, doesnt fit with what you already know or believe, you have to so to speak get off your already existing wall of bricks (as we said, be like the cat thrown into the air), and take on what is new just as itself, that is, without trying to deal with it by making it like anything with which you are already familiar. To be successful in dealing with what is new and at first counter-intuitive for you and produce a transformation for yourself, you must be willing to tolerate the conflict and resulting tension between what is new and your existing wall of bricks. You must stick with it even though sticking with it feels like having been thrown up in the air topsy-turvy. What makes something counter-intuitive is nothing more than its being inconsistent with your existing wall of bricks. A new brick that is counter-intuitive has to be held in suspension, held apart from and out beyond your already existing wall of bricks. In fact, you have to be willing to stand on nothing, as it were, and grapple with creating what is new for you as a new realm of possibility for yourself. -- from Introductory Reading For Being a Leader and The Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological/Phenomenological Model papers.ssrn/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1585976
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