Life Discovery: Twelve Significant Insights from Four Months

Oliver Ding
CALL4
Published in
31 min readApr 25, 2022

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Some sparks could lead to a life-changing movement

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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 focuses on the notion of “Significant Insight” that echoes the “Discovery as Development” principle.

Part 1: The Notion of Significant Insight

I am recently working on the Life Discovery project. The notion of Significant Insight is considered an idea of the project.

1.1 Significant Insight for Life Discovery

In Life Discovery: The “Discovery as Development” Principle, I roughly identified the following essential actions for the Life Discovery Activity:

  • Exploration: detach from the Produce status and attach to the Play status
  • Detection: pay attention to cues…

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Oliver Ding
CALL4

Founder of CALL(Creative Action Learning Lab), information architect, knowledge curator.