Exploration is more than just discovering what we agree with; it's about pushing boundaries and challenging our perceptions.
The words exploration and discovery go well together. If you start on an exploration journey, you are likely to make some discoveries. It's even a little more exciting than going on a learning journey and collecting some lessons. Words matter.
Today I discovered someone I now want to follow because what I read from that person resonated strongly. This is part of the problem. We tend to read and follow what resonates, what we agree with, which leads to reading more of the same people who write things that resonate with us, which only reinforces our opinion of ourselves and allows us to dismiss everything else either as crazy or just noise.
I would like my explorations to lead me to things that are adjacent to what resonates with me, to push the boundaries a little, to expand the zone of what resonates with me to what makes me think and rethink.
I am particularly interested in this discovery because it will expand my thinking. I discovered Joan Westenberg's blog and other writings. I discovered her via Harold Jarche's blog. Harold Jarche is already on the edge of my comfort zone and someone I have followed closely for a long time around Personal Knowledge Management. Joan Westenberg is pushing things in the same zone of discovery.
What's the point I am trying to make?
In an attempt to curate interesting, relevant information, and to support my explorations for valuable discoveries, I need to strategically pay attention beyond what immediately resonates with me and notice the adjacent content that can take my own thinking one step further.
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