[VBbuilders] 12 Questions for our credibility

[Mark Petz]

I posted it here

http://hirvikatu10.net/foorumi/viewtopic.php?p=4076#4076

maybe some people feedback. Now I am too busy with other projects to do
more. By the way did you ever do Jungian personality types? What did you
find?

I just discovered I am one called ENTJ

apparently the same as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Teddy Roosevelt - so
really I should be in a similar role.

m

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Andrius Kulikauskas <ms at ms.lt> wrote:

> Hi, I'm still in Vienna!  As you know, I've been grappling with my future
> ever since I've been here.  I share my conclusions and I am curious to know
> if you might like this or not.
>
> I'm sharing my thoughts about future steps for Minciu Sodas as a lab,
> network and business.  I wonder how this might fit with your own visions and
> dreams.
>
> I've been thinking about my life goals and my business direction.  I want
> to organize a culture of independent thinkers, of many small leaps that we
> can verify rather than one big leap of faith.  I'm realizing this has a lot
> to do with establishing our own credibility to ourselves and others.
>  Instead of "Trust me!" it's the spirit of "Don't trust me. Verify me!"
>
> In my art work I'm portraying 12 questions by which I've engaged
> independent thinkers over the years to get to know them.
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/50525222@N00/4345880583/sizes/l/
> The questions are relevant roughly in this order:
>  1. What do you care about?
>  2. Do you care about thinking?
>  3. What do you value?
>  4. What do you seek to know?
>  5. What do you wish to achieve?
>  6. Would you think out loud?
>  7. Where do you think best?
>  8. What is your dream in life?
>  9. How can we help each other?
>  10. What do you truly know about?
>  11. What lessons can you share?
>  12. What do you know of God?
>
> Unanswered questions point to weaknesses in our credibility.  How can
> others find my "help" of much use if I'm a lost soul, if I'm not
> self-directed, if I don't know my own dream-in-life, I don't know what I
> want to achieve myself, I don't know what I value?  What's the point of them
> debating with me if I don't care about thinking or if I won't think out
> loud?  What is the credibility of my knowledge and authority if I don't seek
> to know anything and don't know where or how I think best?
>
> I believe the scale can work effectively as a guide to where a person's
> credibility breaks down.   I think there are people who might value that as
> a foundation for a culture of self-directed people working together.
>
> I'm in Vienna, Austria visiting Franz Nahrada.  He's very supportive of
> this approach and suggested I develop a website and brand "12 Questions".
>  I've just acquired the domain http://www.12questions.org
>
> I'm also happy that these 12 questions are very much like the questions in
> the Structured Visual Thinking (TM) Discovery Framework, as John Caswell has
> confirmed.
> http://www.grouppartnerswiki.net/index.php?title=The_Business_Equation
> Last spring in London our Minciu Sodas team visited John at his Group
> Partners offices.  Their consulting approach is the most profound that I've
> ever encountered and they work intensely with executives at the top levels
> of the largest companies.  We tentatively agreed that Minciu Sodas might
> phrase a related approach in the Public Domain, especially for individuals
> and noncorporate groups.  I'm happy that these 12 questions might be the
> core of such an approach. They also use a lot of visual thinking and that
> encourages an artistic approach.
>
> I'm setting up http://www.12questions.org as a place for people to post
> their answers to the questions as text but also to express themselves with
> all the creative arts.  All of the site will be in the Public Domain.  We
> will help each other create such works that express us and can be freely
> shared, too.   The business opportunity that I see is that person A pays
> person B to help person C express themselves.  I think this fits with my
> maxim that "Money brings people together, but you can't pay people to care."
>  If we need help to express ourselves, then we ask others to help, but we
> don't pay them directly ourselves, because that would interfere with them
> caring about us, and then they might just do whatever we signal them to do.
>
> The result will be a Second Life type of world but with the simplest
> technology and for "real world" people.  And we'll interact in simple ways,
> but especially pointing to posts such as "kind words" at other online venues
> that support our credibility with each other.
>
> Online venues can participate if they have clear leaders, if they are in
> the Public Domain except as noted, and if they take up the 12 questions as
> part of their activity.  Typically we might discuss one question per week,
> twelve weeks in all, every year at such a venue.  Does this make sense for
> your venue?  This is how I imagine the Minciu Sodas network being reborn as
> a 12 Questions network.  How best might this work in practice?
>
> I'm thinking of starting such a series on March 1 at interested venues.  I
> am doing related month long art shows in April in Vienna, Austria and in May
> in Vilnius, Lithuania and we can portray and show our dreams-in-life and
> other answers there.
>
> The 12 questions will help me and others know who to invest ourselves in
> when we organize global teams for paid work.  They will also help in
> collecting stories and patterns about real life, which is question 11, "What
> lessons can we share?"
>
> I am encouraged by this direction.  What do we think?  Who might like to
> participate?
>
> Andrius
>
> Andrius Kulikauskas
> Minciu Sodas
> http://www.ms.lt
> ms at ms.lt
> +370 699 30003
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