Judy
11-01-2008, 02:38 PM
My most powerful memory of David? I was dangling upside-down in a dark, sub-zero November car park on a psychoactive fairground ride, looking at the planet Venus on the horizon while he chatted to NLP brainbox Wyatt Woodsmall about his theories on Emergence. And I’d only met him to do a promotional interview!
But in for a penny, in for a pound - by the time of the interview I’d been trying to pin David down for weeks. I’d discovered that David was notoriously unpredictable; that he’d follow whatever grabbed his interest; that he’d vanish mysteriously and then appear without warning, rounding up a group for his latest enthusiasm. One minute he’d love to meet for lunch, the next he was sick, travelling, in Yorkshire, in France…
When we finally sat down together to talk David was direct to the point of rudeness. Questions were met with hostility or a piercing stare. I got some basic quotes – and an instruction to interview no less than six other people about him. Totally out of order, I thought, but strangely compelling.
Like so many other people, I was swept along against my normal judgement by David’s ideas – his genius – and his enthusiasm. He was a fascinating person to be around.
His willingness to be outrageous and to stretch the limits of what’s thought possible resulted in Clean Language, Clean Space and Emergent Knowledge, three of the most powerful tools for change that we have. And as the rest of us take those ideas forward, what could happen next?
Judy
But in for a penny, in for a pound - by the time of the interview I’d been trying to pin David down for weeks. I’d discovered that David was notoriously unpredictable; that he’d follow whatever grabbed his interest; that he’d vanish mysteriously and then appear without warning, rounding up a group for his latest enthusiasm. One minute he’d love to meet for lunch, the next he was sick, travelling, in Yorkshire, in France…
When we finally sat down together to talk David was direct to the point of rudeness. Questions were met with hostility or a piercing stare. I got some basic quotes – and an instruction to interview no less than six other people about him. Totally out of order, I thought, but strangely compelling.
Like so many other people, I was swept along against my normal judgement by David’s ideas – his genius – and his enthusiasm. He was a fascinating person to be around.
His willingness to be outrageous and to stretch the limits of what’s thought possible resulted in Clean Language, Clean Space and Emergent Knowledge, three of the most powerful tools for change that we have. And as the rest of us take those ideas forward, what could happen next?
Judy