studio non troppo : mindful design : facilitation

Samurai, author, and artist Musashi wrote a list of instructions about 400 years ago. One of Musashi’s list items was “distinguish between gain and loss in worldly matters.”

We often do a poor job of this. What appears at first to be gain turns out not to be, or what seems to be loss is not. Because perceiving patterns seems to be an aspect of how our minds are designed to work, we might not be able to stop judging things. Still, if we are aware of the fallibility and limitations of our evaluations, we might be able to practice this art of distinguishing between gain and loss in worldly matters.