Dave Gray was the guest of the Service Design Book Club today, where he shared insights and ideas from his book Liminal Thinking.  I've had the opportunity talk with Dave and hear him speak about the book several times over the past few years, and each time I learn something new, get something useful from it. Sometimes it is just good to get a reminder of why everyone believes what they believe, takes the actions they take. Today was no exception.

After a brief question and answer period (where Dave asked most of the questions), Dave launched into a sketch session where he invited us to join in. Here is my sketch from the conversation. Next time I'm going to use A4 instead of A5, I always run out of room.

For the purposes of today's conversation, the point of attention on reality was considered as a single view, an all encompassing summary. I started wondering what that might look like if you were to zoom in on that single point where attention is focused on reality.

Here's what I came up with.

The tl;dr is that the more homogeneous your attention to reality, to the world around you, the thicker, more impermeable your bubble of belief becomes, while the more diverse your attention to reality, to your experiences, the thinner, more permeable that bubble becomes. 

Which makes sense to me, because I've long believed that diversity of experience - travel, learning languages, sports, parenting, etc - leads to broader beliefs, a more open mind. So I may just be trying to use Dave's ideas here to justify my own belief. Going to have to give that some more thought. (And pull Liminal Thinking up towards the top of my "read again" stack.)