{"id":43211,"date":"2023-09-23T07:32:35","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T07:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polarization.wpengine.com\/?p=43211"},"modified":"2024-03-21T18:40:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T18:40:27","slug":"day-5-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buildersmovement.org\/pdc\/week-4\/day-5","title":{"rendered":"Day 5"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBack To Exercises\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\r\n\t
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\n Week 4<\/span>\n Cooperative Change<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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Adapt to Setbacks<\/h1>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n \r\n\t

The key here is to learn how intractability happens and how to navigate these conflicts by taking a long view of these challenges according to the best research on effective decision-making in complex, unpredictable environments.<\/p>\r\n\t

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Exercises<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

\r\n\t\tChoose Your Lift Level\r\n\t<\/h2>\r\n\t

What do you have capacity for today? Whether it’s a light lift, or something a little heavier, taking a step is what counts.<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t5 minutes\r\n\t\t\t<\/a>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t20 minutes\r\n\t\t\t<\/a>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPractice\r\n\t\t\t<\/a>\r\n\t\t\t\t5 minutes\r\n

Get Attracted<\/h3>

Check out this 5-minute interactive game on attractor landscapes.<\/p>\r\n

Play The Game<\/a>

The Science Behind It<\/h4>Attractors are the primary concept from physics and complexity science that my colleagues and I have employed to understand how some complex social conflicts get stuck in long-term patterns that become highly resistant to change. They help us understand how many different aspects of conflicts can combine and align in ways that work together to keep us attracted and trapped in their lure.<\/p>\r\n

This game<\/a>, developed by the artist and computer scientist Nicky Case, is a fun way to become more familiar with the strange, unpredictable dynamics associated with attractors. So, keep the political issue you chose for this week in mind, play the game, and imagine that your attempts to move the needle on the issue are responding like an attractor would. What insights arise from this?<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t\t20 minutes\r\n

Why Are Many Community Problems So Hard to Change?<\/h3>

After checking out the definition of “attractors” from the Light Lift Exercise, use this worksheet<\/a> to review what I call the 7 Crude Laws of Nonlinear Change, and then reflect on how you might make adjustments for them when planning and problem-solving for effecting change on your issue of choice.<\/p>\r\n

Get The Worksheet<\/a>The more familiar we become with how both linear (incremental) and nonlinear (tipping-point) types of change unfold over time (often simultaneously, but at different rates of change), the less surprised we will be when our actions are met with no effects, delayed effects, backfires, or otherwise unexpected outcomes. This is key to what George Herbert Mead called systemic wisdom<\/a>, or the capacity to understand the inherent propensities of the complex, dynamic context in which a conflict is embedded and to work with the dynamics of the system to support the emergence of more constructive patterns – in other words, understanding and leveraging the power of the situation.<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t\tPractice\r\n

When You Find Yourself Frustrated by the Slow Pace of Change (and You Will), Try Any of These Simple Nudges<\/h3>

They include:<\/p>\r\n

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The Science Behind It<\/h4>

Finding a way out of these dynamics will take time and be filled with setbacks. It’s good to have these small nudges ready to help you stop, reset, and try again.<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\t\tSet a daily reminder\r\n\t<\/h2>\r\n\t

Get daily exercise reminders on your phone or email throughout The Challenge to stay on track.<\/p>\r\n

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