Life Discovery: Significant Insights Analysis

Oliver Ding
CALL4
Published in
6 min readApr 29, 2022

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Who is the significant other behind a significant insight?

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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. I have shared 12 significant insights I captured in the past four months in the previous article.

Today I will follow the previous article and expand its third part with more details.

12 Examples of Significant Insights

I used the notion of “Significant Insights” for the Life Discovery Activity and consider it an important outcome of the activity.

From the perspective of the Anticipatory Activity System (AAS) framework, a Second-order Activity leads to the Objective and the Object of a First-order Activity. If we consider Life as an Anticipatory Activity…

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Oliver Ding
CALL4

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