One of the most popular concepts the author of GTD, David Allen, states is to have a mind like water. When you throw a pebble into water, it responds appropriately to the force and mass of that pebble, then returns to a calm state. You should be able to react similarly when an email enters your inbox or you receive an urgent call from your manager. However, the mind like water concept is not new. Indeed, Bruce Lee famously used it in an interview, which this neat animation summarizes.
There is an error in the flick. If you put it into the teapot it becomes tea ;) Guess it’s the basic shape of my mind anyway, makes it very easy to do anything and react to whatever situation, but at the same time makes it extremely hard to take decisions if you don’t have to (simply because you really don’t have to).
Glad you all liked the video. I like these life lessons as animations (a bit like the previous video). Will see what others I can find. Luke, you make a very good point about how the water would become tea, never thought of that :)
Hey! Cool that you used my little animation. I made this animation after I saw the Bruce Lee interview. I was thinking, “Wow, thats a great philosophy” and I just had to make some kind of animation to it. I’m glad you liked it
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June 15th 2008
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Shanel Yang:
June 15th, 2008 at 1:45 pm