{"id":937,"date":"2012-07-19T04:13:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T08:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/facilitativeleadership.wordpress.com\/?p=937"},"modified":"2026-05-01T15:31:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T19:31:47","slug":"crashing-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/crashing-through\/","title":{"rendered":"Crashing Through Toward Improved Facilitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The book &#8220;Crashing Through&#8221; by New York Times bestselling author Robert Kurson includes innumerable reflections about struggle, collaboration, and victory that also apply to the sphere of facilitation.<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Most importantly, the book emphasizes the scientific understanding that pre-existing knowledge affects perception. In other words, what you know changes what you see. The challenges around consensual decision-making are thus amplified by the plurality of the group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Sight recovery after a lifetime of being visually impaired is extraordinarily rare. Only around 20 people in known history have had their vision restored in adulthood after being visually blind since early youth. As explained by Kurson, he captures Mike May&#8217;s &#8220;true story of risk, adventure, and the man who dared to see.&#8221; Suffice it to say that vision and the brain&#8217;s role supporting it is massively complex.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Visually impaired, but not without vision<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Keep in mind that Mike May, while blind, established world records in downhill skiing.\u00a0 He also became a co-inventor of the world&#8217;s first laser turntable and was the first blind person hired by the CIA (Central Intelligence Unit). In Mike May&#8217;s words, &#8220;Life with vision is great. But life without vision is great too.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The optic nerve is technically part of the brain. It can also transmit perfect signals from the cornea region of the eye that can be rendered uniquely in each person&#8217;s mind based on what they know when they receive the signal. In other words, two people can look at the same scene and see different things. That&#8217;s probably not a surprise if you are a trained facilitator, but it becomes increasingly important that you emphasize the diversity of perception and the simple fact that there is more than one right answer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Crashing-Through-Story-Adventure-Dared-ebook\/dp\/B000QEKMUI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img wpfc-lazyload-disable=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9886 size-full\" title=\"Crashing Through\" src=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/51tkmahnYbL.jpg\" alt=\"Crashing Through Toward Improved Facilitation\" width=\"330\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/51tkmahnYbL.jpg 330w, https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/51tkmahnYbL-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Details of perception<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The story explores the details and science to support its conclusion that perception relies largely on prior life experiences and the judgments those experiences have brought to each of us. For example, some of May&#8217;s problems are related to depth perception. While he saw horizontal lines, most of us would have instantly recognized a stairway, and would not have crashed down or up the stairs, unlike May.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">He was largely unable to determine sexual gender by looking only at the face of someone. It&#8217;s not important that facilitators discriminate, but it is rather curious and significant that our preconceptions about small details such as eyebrow width or color nuances lead us to conclusions, that may be wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>______<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Don\u2019t ruin your career by hosting <a href=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/bad-meetings\/\">bad meetings<\/a>. Sign up for a <a href=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/public-facilitation-training\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">workshop<\/a> or send this to someone who should. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260106090117\/https:\/\/mgrush.com\/\">MGR<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">USH<\/span><\/a><\/em> workshops focus on meeting design and practice. Each person practices tools, methods, and activities every day during the week. Therefore, while some call this immersion, we call it the road to building high-value facilitation skills.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The book &#8220;Crashing Through&#8221; by New York Times bestselling author Robert Kurson includes innumerable reflections about struggle, collaboration, and victory that also apply to the sphere of facilitation. Most importantly, the book emphasizes the scientific understanding that pre-existing knowledge affects perception. In other words, what you know changes what you see. 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