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Nerds V's Fighters

  • 20-03-2010 4:52pm
    #1
    macnerdy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36 ✭


    It's not often that the worlds of Nerds and MMA students collide. So its with this in mind that I post the following link. Its a blog post about Russell Ackoff by Steve Morris.
    Russell will never be famous in UFC circles but his ideas are quite well known among business thinkers and nerds like me who deal with IT related structures.
    And Steve Morris is .....well....does the site title morrisnoholdsbared.co.uk not say it all?

    So whats this to do with MMA training? Well read this first....


    "The characteristic way of management that we have taught in the Western world is [to] take a complex system, divide it into parts and then try to manage each part as well as possible. And if that’s done, the system as a whole will behave well. That’s absolutely false, because it’s possible to improve the performance of each part taken separately and destroy the system at the same time. (The Deming Library, Vol. 21)

    Look what the educational system does to creativity. Every child learns at a very early stage that when they’re asked a question in school they must first ask themselves a question: What answer does the asker expect? That’s the way you get through school, by providing people with the answers they expect. Now, one thing about an answer that somebody else expects is it can’t be creative because it’s already known. What we ought to be trying to do with children is get them to give us answers that we don’t expect—to stimulate creativity. We kill it in school. (The Deming Library, Vol. 21)"

    Then think about Mixed Martial Arts training as being about takeing the functional part of different martial arts systems and combing them as a whole....

    and then check out Steve Morris's post at

    http://stevemorris.livejournal.com/38553.html

    and then tell me if the dude isnt on to something.

    www.wexfordmma.ie


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