Blind Spots, Part 1

What are your blind spots? How can you know what you don't know?

First, let's open up the discussion. This video was taken from the presencing.com website. Watch the video, then consider areas in your life where you struggle with the tension between immediate challenges and institutionalized systems.

One could argue that immediate challenges are results of institutionalized systems. As Scharmer puts it, we are "collectively creating results that nobody wants." This is because one of our biggest blind spots, one of the things we have to get most aware of, is our existence within, our contribution to, our own personal identity with and ownership of each system that is producing those results. Essentially, we are the system. As we become more aware of this we can begin a natural process of following the U, "creating the future that wants to emerge". And as Peter Block may have put it, creating a future that is distinct from the past. However, if that future exists in our blind spot, the possibility of that future does not exist for us. So, how do we recognize those blind spots? Could you ever be completely open, with no blind spots at all?