{"id":892,"date":"2013-04-11T03:29:39","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T03:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.dminlgp.com\/embrace-chaos-to-kiss-order\/"},"modified":"2013-04-11T03:29:39","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T03:29:39","slug":"embrace-chaos-to-kiss-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/embrace-chaos-to-kiss-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Embrace Chaos to Kiss Order"},"content":{"rendered":"

Margaret J. Wheatley, in her book Leadership and the New Science: Learning about Organization from an Orderly Universe<\/u>, challenges us to step into a place of \u201callowing \u2013 trusting that the appropriate forms can emerge.\u201d\u00a0 This allowing is a place where one does not try to control the universe but instead surrenders to participate in its \u201cunfolding dance of order.\u201d (23)\u00a0 She lists numerous concepts from physics to computer science in which we find a chaotic order.\u00a0 For example, she explains that the Julia set fractals, which result from a simple non-linear mathematical computer formula, develop into a repeating pattern of randomness.\u00a0 Even in the seeming randomness of a floret of broccoli are repeating fractals.\u00a0 In other words, there is order in the chaos.\u00a0 \u201cChaos is order without predictability.\u201d (Cartwright quote, 123)<\/p>\n

It seems that chaos contains patterns that are only visible with time.\u00a0 When a system becomes unstable it moves into a period of oscillation then into an unpredictable stage of full chaos.\u00a0 However, eventually something called a \u201cstrange attractor\u201d becomes evident; named strange because we don\u2019t know that much about them.\u00a0 A strange attractor is a space that magnetically pulls the system into visible shape.\u00a0 A strange attractor is ultimately a dynamic kind of equilibrium.\u00a0 Something attracts the system, the system begins to repeat itself using the concept of \u201cself-similarity,\u201d and ultimately out of the chaos comes a pattern of order.\u00a0 For example, a snowflake is unique and apparently random, however the crystals within the snowflake practice \u201cself-similarity.\u201d\u00a0 You can see the same example in my picture of the delicious Romanesco broccoli.\u00a0 As a whole it is a unique shape but within its seeming randomness are patterns of order.\u00a0 And within these patterns of order are chaotic uniqueness.\u00a0 And within this chaotic uniqueness are more patterns of order.\u00a0 These patterns of order give shape to the chaotic random floret of Romanesco broccoli.\u00a0 Get it? Got it? Good! \u00a0\ud83d\ude42
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The inherent order in chaos inspired in me thoughts about free will.\u00a0 Humans are free to make random choices.\u00a0 As we make these choices we are also magnetically drawn to \u201cstrange attractors.\u201d\u00a0 These strange attractors eventually help us create order in the story of our lives.\u00a0 Each story is different and yet there are patterns of similarity.\u00a0 Every human that lives long enough moves through childhood, youth, and adulthood.\u00a0 We all tend to experience similar emotions in different ways \u2013 sadness, sorrow, happiness, joy.\u00a0 The self-similarity patterns we create help us develop a personal identity.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What are the \u201cstrange attractors\u201d in your life that have helped form order out of chaos?<\/p>\n

What self-similarity patterns have you created in order to form your identity?<\/p>\n

How might you embrace chaos in order to kiss order?<\/p>\n

Wheatley, Margaret J. Leadership and the New Science: Learning about Organization from an Orderly Universe<\/u>. \u00a0Berrett-Koehler Publishers. San Francisco, CA. 1992.<\/p>\n

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