Repeating themes — the map is not the territory

The universe, she will keep repeating the lessons to you over and over, in different forms, until you are ready to learn them

An oft-repeated lesson to me by my mentor Ed Percival

As a friend reminded me of recently, I do like to repeat themes, each time looking at them through a different angle. Some are common to all of us and bear repetition after repetition for us to learn over and over and in different ways with different layers.

I therefore smiled today when I dipped into my “Seth Godin” email folder (where all his daily blogs are filtered for me), seeing a recent one called “the map is not the territory”. Googling my own site, I found I’ve written around that phrase and idea at least three times, feel free to browse these and find more by googling the site and phrase yourself:

• The map is not the territory (a core article for me with links to in-depth articles)
• The menu is not the meal (with homage to Alan Watts)
• Thinking beyond the map (about the value of having someone with external perspective to help you see and decide on things)
• Who controls your cognitive map? a concept outline by Gillian Tett and referenced in the piece, about biases Again, see my piece yesterday “Be aware of your biases”