Bucky Group 23c - Geometry

This is our Saturday breakfast on the reception counter of Joo Hock's Hair Affair Salon. One or two of us will have the duty to buy packets of the local goodies. Breakfast starts at 8am. :)

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We continued with the game played last Saturday. Click here. It was to form four triangles from two triangles. The moral of the story is that the 'player' has to be willing to be open, try without fear of error and think out of the box. That means letting go of conventional views. Be different. Be mad! Incidentally, one of the solutions, which is to form a tetrahedron, is possible only with two complementary (as opposed to identical) shapes. It is a metaphor to show that in a successful collaboration, complementary contribution to the whole is necessary. We call this 'synergy'.

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As if both the shapes are the same, it can't form the tetrahedron, like the pix next.

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Joo Hwa's time-out:

Once upon a time, the mouth, eyes, nose...etc were debating who was more important and should become the boss. While they were debating, nobody seemed to notice the asshole, and the asshole become upset. In revenge, the asshole decided to shut off and not serve the rest of the body. Obviously, it became a major problem as all the shit quickly piled up. Amid the chaos and hardship, 'everyone' got together and decided to vote the asshole as the CEO.

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Hin Lan has a more refined version which she uses for her trainees. It sums up that an organisation is like the body in the above example. Every part has a function to play and it is through cooperation and synergy that the whole works better than the sum of its parts.

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It is like the game: 1 triangle + 1 triangle = 4 triangles.

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However, Rachel mentioned that it is often difficult to suggest improvements in an organisation as the boss would not listen to you. And often, it is the vocal ones that get heard. Joo Hock said that it is therefore important to illustrate your ideas using artifacts, like Bucky does. Voiced in abstract terms, bosses often cannot grasp suggestions well.

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During the rest of the session, we spent our time playing with these magnetic sticks and balls to form tetrahedrons and octahedrons.

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tetrahedron

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Octahedron

This is a big tetrahedron made up of 4 small tetrahedrons, with an octahedronn inside.

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