A crisis is the end of an illusion.
People create illusions, which they build to replace the lost reality.
We soon find ourselves spending all our energy maintaining the illusions.
When you create an illusion to prevent change... the change becomes more likely and harder to take.
From The Alchemist
"Tomorrow, sell your camel and buy a horse. Camels are traitorous: they walk thousands of paces and they never seem to tire. Then suddenly, they kneel and die. But horses tire bit by bit. You always know how much you can ask of them, and when it is that they are about to die."
From How to use Conscious Purpose Without Wrecking Everything
Ignoring feedback merely means that the system will eventually experience a massive unpleasant surprise rather than a small unpleasant surprise.
From An Introduction to General Systems Thinking
They know "better" - which is to say that their illusion is stronger.
The more sure we are the more likely we are to suffer an illusion.
From Thinking Fast and Slow
This quality of pastness is an illusion. The truth is, as Jacoby and many followers have shown, that the name David Stenbill will look more familiar when you see it because you will see it more clearly.
From The Logic of Failure
If we never look at the consequences of our behaviour, we can always maintain the illusion of our competence.
The results also support the idea that activity may foster an illusion of competence.
From Existentialism and Humanism
I should be without illusion and I should do what I can.
From Switch
Positive illusions pose an enormous problem with regard to change.
From Mind and Nature
In Ames experiments, you are always made to observe the truth before being subjected to the illusions.
From Quality Software Management. Vol 4. Anticipating Change
It is easy to look at this diagram and believe that you're seeing a defined process. You're not. What you're seeing is an optical illusion.
