Life Discovery: The “Discovery as Development” Principle

Oliver Ding
CALL4
Published in
11 min readApr 19, 2022

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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:

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Oliver Ding
CALL4

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