I am reading a book by Edward De Bono, How to Have a Beautiful Mind. I've started reading since about two months ago, but have been stopping now and then to read and do other things. Anyway, today I continued reading several pages and did a small little exercise as suggested. I've run through the little speech verbally and I thought it came up pretty interesting, so I would try to reconstruct it here. If you're reading this, tell me if you agree! Be honest, as this will help me to improve!
A steering wheel is often associated with a vehicle, a car. Where else would it appear in? Since it's to steer something, I think it would appear in a person too. To steer a person's thoughts, and motives. Probably every being and every thing needs a steering wheel. For example, in a person, we need to have a wheel to tell us where to go and what to do, and who is directing this? The mind.
What if a house have steering wheel? Does it make sense? Hmm, maybe not really. A house doesn't need to move, it is static. Well, unless you talk about the things in the house, like a kettle, it does have a small steering wheel, even if it's just and on and off button. So maybe, a house as a whole has plenty of little steering wheels in it because it houses so many things, including us! Perhaps a house with a steering wheel of its own would make sense one day.. like.. it can move like a caravan? A moving house? Wow.. but in today's world, it might be a disaster. There's not much space around especially in the urban area, we might run into each other steering something as big as a house, and there's legistation on what land belongs to who.. and think about an apartment! Who's going to steer it? The building owner? And all those occupants of each unit would have to comply, I think, otherwise how to move as one? Hey, that sounds like a human. A master mind is moving all the little organs.. and everyone need to "follow" so that a person and its mental and physical facultires are in harmony, and then we can function. If there's no mind, no apartment, no us? Since no mind to steer things, then there is no thing?
Maybe every thing can have a steering wheel. Just now (in my verbal speech), I thought of an excel sheet. It has a steering wheel alright, all the command menus and buttons. Perhaps a little too many, and will require us to learn before we can use it. So what's a good steering wheel? Something simple and easy to learn. Simple as in a vehicle steering wheel: move left, move straight or stay still. But in this case. An excel sheet cannot be as simple as that, it does need to have some more buttons, so perhaps it meets the second criteria here "easy to learn" - at least it is quite intuitive.. but still, something that Microsoft must have had in mind already, how to make it simple and easy?
Also.. I was thinking, a steering wheel cannot make things move on its own. It needs to have an "actioner" - which is the person / mind, and it needs something to feed on, like fuel in a car. Without the actioner and the food, it cannot function, and of course it cannot function without the vehicles and parts! For there would be nothing to move!
In conclusion to my rambling thoughts above:
(1) Steering wheel is not only associated with machines, its concept applies to almost (if not all), of beings and objects.
(2) A steering wheel can control many different sub-steering wheels, or it can control different objects. So all these sub wheels need to work in harmony in order for something to function, or a steering wheel needs to be powerful enough to do a job on its own.
(3) A good steering wheel is simple and easy/intuitive to learn.
(4) A steering wheel cannot exist on its own, it needs to come with the actioner/driver, fuel/food and all other parts of what it's supposed to move.
That's all, my thoughts of a steering wheel.
~ttg~
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