REVERSE THE FLOW

Think Different

— Apple

Reverse the flow. Make it about the other person, not about yourself. Reach beyond yourself to connect with the people around you. That is what the camera loves to see and that is what today’s article is about.

HIDE SELF VIEW

Imagine you are holding your phone. You want to take a photo of your favourite person. But you find that selfie-mode is activated. You have to press the icon to flip the focus off your own face to the face of the other person.

This is the process of reverse the flow. Learn to make that flip in your mind. As we say on Zoom “Hide self-view”.

In my article WHITE SPACE (Feb 04, 2021), I wrote about how actors and directors need to value the white space on the page, the thoughts, just as much as we value the black marks on the page, the words. The poet Keats called this negative capability. The Japanese call it Ma and the people of Samoa call it Le Va. In that article you can see two illusions that open up the experience of flipping your awareness fr…