Life Discovery: The “Discovery as Development” Principle

Life Discovery is not only for Life Transitions. Life Discovery is for both settled life stages and unsettled life stages.

The Life-as-Project Approach is inspired by Project-oriented Activity Theory, Anticipatory Systems Theory, Curativity Theory, and other theoretical resources, it was developed with the following six basic principles:

• Being by Doing
• Engagement as Projection
• End as Means
• Discovery as Development
• Performance as Experiment
• Curativity as Creativity

This article offers some related ideas for the “Discovery as Development” principle and the “Curated Mind” framework.

Exploration, Detection, and Recognition

According to the Merriam-webster dictionary, the word Discover has two meanings: 1) to make known or visible; 2) to obtain sight or knowledge of for the first time.

For Life Discovery Activity, I roughly identify the following essential actions: