
Among all life forms, although man has been blessed with a higher intelligence, he almost always fails to take inputs from nature.
It must be the primordial need for control that pushes him to choose his thinking over messages from nature. Result? Logic is always sought as better to the heart. Maybe history has some answers to this choice.
From Socrates to statisticians &scientists across the world the created image for repeatability &reproduceability is data based decisions. Considering the only other competition to this was the paranormal/ alien groups, we know who won. There have been charlatans on both sides; the success of science however, was that once a product was launched it worked the same way for all without a bias. For the latter, the service effect &experience varied from person to person.
Science made success. The areas of the heart kept moving into the background more and more.Today, it is fashionable for people to claim they are left brained and have nothing to do with the heart. With social media it is common to see certain alpha males pimping links from certain sites that claim scientific finds, technology findings &statistical breaking news. They dont really stop at this, they also like to post -ve links on all things right brained. One would think its a war.
Every puffed chest seems to swell as the number of followers in their social groups increase to the assumed mask of knowledge of these people. Nevermind that NASA changes its mind about its findings, on the speed of light or the age of the sunray that travels to the world. Never mind that HBR decides to promote one perspective this season and the contrary one the next.These are looked at with great interest and many a heart goes after whether GE will still be an employer of choice or whether IBM will go from smarter planet to predicting crime.
Humans and all related components however are only right brained. The # of days to make a baby, rains, rate of life growth, experience of the sun, weather, love, disease and recuperation are all occurrences that vary from person to person. Nothing is repeatable. The ability to predict how long an individual will work for a company, his career path or WIIFH(Whats in it for him) can never be computed from a balanced score card, much less a regression analysis. Somewhere nature is asking us to manage as much as we can with intelligence obtained outside (data) but have the courage, resilience and tenacity to manage everything thrown at us. If left dominated right, then the numerous instances we see accidents should have trained us to calculate speed of vehicle, impact and the vehicles make and predict whether the passengers will live or die. But the tip in the balance is clear when hope takes over data, rushes to hospitals and makes several attempts to revive the spirit from the place of faraway land. Sometimes we succeed.Sometimes we don't.
Lets keep the technology to the bell curve. Lets keep the humans to the learning curve. They don't meet. Even during appraisals!
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