3 Concepts To Reframe Creativity for Non-Creatives. #2: Seeing

Rod Aparicio
1 min readJan 20, 2022

Marty Neumeier defines Seeing as one of the abilities (Metaskills — Take this test, it’s fun!) that are fundamental in this new era — The Robotic Age. What does he mean, though?

Seeing the whole picture, not just the parts. It’s the discipline of overcoming beliefs, biases and mental models to observe situations the way they really are in their entirety. To reject “Or” and embrace “And”.

In Systems Thinking, how the components of the system interact to achieve a purpose. It’s all about the interaction, not just the components.

You have to think about what happens next and next and next.

[Marty’s talk Metaskills]

Here’s how you can frame it: Seeing is being able to perceive the bigger picture — “to think about what happens next and next and next”. [This is a great way in to define what strategy means]

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