In psychology, for example when mentioning the
direction of ‘traffic’ in nerves there are two expressions which are often used
in other fields as well. One is bottom-up and the other is top-down. This is
especially used in attention and other ways of information processing. When one
is actively focusing on something it’s called top-down and for example a
startle response is bottom-up.
In our moving houses project we appear to work
top-down as well. Not only because we plan the things we’re doing but also
because the upper floors in both houses are the most ready parts and downstairs
is rather messy.
When talking about curtains, top-down means
curtains from ceiling to floor. And that’s what we ordered for Kim’s bedroom.
That room has a beautiful laminate flooring now, laid by Michael and Kim today.
The second bedroom that’s almost ready and makes it more and more our new
house.
Top-down is also how Tabitha and Samantha
worked today regarding our two rabbits. In transition management there are two
strategies. Top-down there means that the leader(s) decide that something has
to change and the subordinates follow that change. Contrary to bottom-up where
the feelings from the subordinates are the base for changes. And as the rabbits
didn’t have any vote in moving their houses today, they were only lucky that it
was done with such expertise, consideration and girl power.
Great that I managed to mix psychology with
what’s up here at the moment in my writing, after all it would be too boring to
talk again about plastering, isn’t it?
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