Heroes Not Zombies

I don’t think you can understand anything unless you see it in its’ context. The tricky thing about that is that everything exists in multiple contexts, so depending on the context which you choose to consider (the perspective you take), whatever it is you are considering can be understood in different ways. I like that. It means you can never FULLY know ALL there is to know about anyone.

During a consultation with a patient I think it’s important to consider several contexts. I drew myself a simple diagram to illustrate this – I’ve described it in the post about the “Human Spectrometer“.

Today I came across a great flash animation which really makes you think about how scaling up or down totally changes the relevant contexts. Try it out. It’s interactive, informative and fun.

It reminded me of the scale of ten project where a series of images are presented, each one being a magnification ten times greater than the previous one. Here’s one version of that from youtube …….