From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Fri Apr 04 2003 - 15:45:56 MST
cryofan@mylinuxisp.com wrote,
> Harvey Newstrom <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com> said:
> > Evolution only works to develop improvements by diversity.
>
> That must explain all those lambs that are part of all lion
> prides these days.
Humor aside, lions couldn't exist without other animals to eat.
> >Capitalism only develops better products by diversity.
>
> How true. I have never seen a firm improve its competitive
> position by focusing on just one product.
A single firm doesn't need diversity in its portfolio, but the market as a
whole does.
> >Think tanks only think up new ideas by diversity.
>
> Exactly! And that is exactly why all the think tanks have
> jettisoned their
> past policies of only hiring degreed people, and have started
> hiring half
> their faculty from the non-degreed homeless street person
> population.
Why do you equate diversity with unqualified people? Nothing about
diversity implies allowing less qualified people into the firm. Diversity
means having people think outside the box or think differently than others.
This is exactly what a think-tank needs. If they hire all graduates from a
single university who all think alike, they would never produce new ideas.
> >Human thought, art, philosophy, and creative thought only
> > occur because of diversity.
>
> Exactly! That is why every successful artist, philosopher and
> thinker only devotes a small fraction of their lives to
> artistry, philosophy and "thinking." The rest of the time
> they do things like work at the post office and rollerblade
> at the mall on weekends.
I doubt that any successful artist, philosopher or thinker has succeeded by
working full time on their main works to the exclusion of other life
experience. Great artists, philosophers and thinkers tend to have
complicated and diverse experiences from which they draw upon to create new
synthesis of ideas. A person with a single viewpoint or a monotonous life
will produce boring one-dimensional works.
-- Harvey Newstrom, CISSP, IAM, GSEC <www.HarveyNewstrom.com>
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