Quickthink

I really like the focus that Havi Brooks gives to the idea of  “getting stuck” and “getting unstuck”. Havi helps people get unstuck. One of her tools is to reduce the trauma that we feel from ideas that are too big. Too abstract. Too coercive. Too scary. So she offers us new words that help us open the door and move on. In this interview with Sarah Bray, (among other things) she talks about about who invented the word patsafarianism:

Unfortunately, I can’t take credit for Pastafarianism. That’s from the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster . But I did invent biggification and stucknesses. And while goofy words are not the secret to un-sticking things, they do kind of take the piss out of the process, which I think is useful.

For those of you who might to learn about the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, here is a link. So … turning to the more buttoned down set, ”what kind of vocabulary do institutions needs to “take the piss out of the process” and get unstuck?” Hmmm …. Tom Peters tries, but dmeanding ”excellence” just doesn’t take enough of “the piss out of the process” if you ask me.

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