Part IV: Ilja Preuss – Find the Inner Doll
It is difficult to find a good definition of being a professional… Be paid for what you doing? Doing something for money? L
Ilja proposed us a metaphor about being a professional to answer what does it means.
Matrioshka: metaphor of the generations of a family. Layers of a developer / Thinking in layer.
The skills doll: your techniques, your tools, your material
The values doll (e.g. for precision mechanic: safety, appropriate precision, economy, cleanliness)
The wisdom doll: Why should I care? Perhaps to gain wisdom
The nurture doll: nurturing and that which has been lived
The inner doll is personal (spiritual?)
How to teach? Not explicitly… just be a right model.
I was touched by the performance of Ilja, and his personality. He seems to be someone discreet and prudish. He undressed the doll layer after layer. At the end, he just let us perceive the inner doll. That incited me to think to a fascinating work of introspection [just be a right model, catharsis].
This presentation was one of the most badly received. Ilja gave us material to think on. Obviously, not everybody was here to make such efforts L ["prêt-à-penser"].
