Flatland: The Movie
We often hear people talk about "thinking out of the box." How would you like to help a group of people not only "think out of the box"...how would you like to help them "think out of the dimension?" If so, consider showing them a video titled Flatland: The Movie (not to be confused with Flatland the Film...which may also be good, but I have not seen it yet and am not recommending it at this time). This 34-minute video is based on Edwin Abbott's book Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
- The power of truth and profound knowledge.
- The limiting power of false beliefs.
- The joys (and normal frustrations) of helping lift others to a higher level of understanding.
- That the real role of a teacher is to encourage and nurture curiosity.
- That a master teacher should disrupt the current beliefs of their students or no new learning will take place.
- That many of life's so-call certainties are illusions.
- That many people operate in a false economy...valuing things that are of no real value and ignoring things of real value.
- Don't let your advanced knowledge shut down the possiblility of further learning.
- The value of coming up with novel ways to help people understand abstract concepts.
- Chance really does favor the prepared mind.
- A little imagination can change your world.
- Different people look at the same information and see opportunities or threats.
It is difficult to ignore the potential religious and political implications of the video, but this is neither a religious or political blog...so I will wimp out and stay away from those topics in this forum.
This video only touches on the zero through fourth dimensions. Well...actually the fourth dimension is only mentioned a few times (and we are warned by the all-knowing character Spherius that the idea of a fourth dimension is "utterly inconceivable"). Quantum physicists, especially the String Theory and M-Theory crowd, are speculating that at least 10 or more dimensions exist in the world we inhabit. Maybe someday we will all meet in the forbidden zone Area 33H (it's in the movie) and have a multi-dimensional experience together. Or who knows... maybe we are already together in some other dimension!
Chris Crouch, president of DME Training and Consulting, has spent years researching and studying both the mental and physical aspects of being productive.
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