The Bill Hartman Podcast for The 16% Season 5 Number 8 Podcast
Absolutely, I do. Because I don't know what the answer is going to be. This is one of the things that people have to get comfortable with. So this is a byproduct of working in the complex domain. The complex domain means that there is a cause and effect, but we just don't know what it is. And we can sometimes figure that out after the fact. That's why I always say, test and figure out what you're looking at from your perspective, and then do something safe, and then see what happens. Because I don't know what 'see what happens' is. You don't either. That is a byproduct of working in complexity. Because I don't know what anyone's experience is up to the point that they start working with me. It's like they've lived a life. They have perceptions. They have beliefs. They have behaviors. I have no idea how that's going to influence the outcome. If somebody doesn't like the color of my room, I'll fail. I might not know it's the color of my room, ever. But what if it's that? I don't know. Trial and error exists because it's very scientific. Over time, however, instead of having only two possibilities of influence, you're going to say you have 12 possibilities. My experience tells me that three of those are more likely to get the outcome that I want. But what if those three don't work? Then I've got nine other possibilities that I might be able to influence that I can slowly superimpose and say, 'I'm going to do this one and see what happens.' And I go back and I wait and I go, 'Oh, that's exactly what I wanted. I'm going to do more of that.' Or it doesn't work. Okay, take that one out. What's the next one? That doesn't mean you don't know what you're doing. That's how you work with a complex system: I'm narrowing probabilities and I have to try to understand as many possible influences as I can.
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