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Meetings as we practice them, with one or a small number of people in front and the rest in rows arrayed out to watch, get in our way. They have their place—to rev up a mob or to inform the uninformed. But if we are facilitating action, then we need to get people together, meeting one another, learning from one another, hooking up to see where their common efforts can be made. So we need circles and small groups. The physical setting directly greases or fences off the ability of people to get work done.

:- Doug.

Control = Getting = Never enough = Disappointment = Misery = Greed = Failure

:- Doug.

What is the relation between measuring and unhappiness?

:- Doug.

Competition makes losers
Measuring people makes us small
Measuring subtracts from people
Measuring however increases one thing:
What we don’t really want.
If we are quick, we hear it whisper to us
What do you want?

:- Doug.

Measuring is a way of finding out by how much you do not measure up. The focus is what’s missing, your falling shorts. Why would I want to see those?

:- Doug.