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When we combine the behavioral realm with the cognitive and emotional realms, the full picture of self-mastery comes into view. These domains represent the ability to become the self of your highest vision. To resist the many forces which would lead you away from it. Self-mastery represents the degree to which you are capable of aligning with your own ideals. In other words, it is your ability to become a great individual and live a great life – by your own standards. The capacities found in the various forms of self-mastery like wisdom, equanimity, and self-control are not merely important virtues. They are the prerequisite, second-order virtues that enable all other strengths to emerge.

— Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture by Ryan A. Bush

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  1. On building learning organizations Personal mastery: Continually clarifying and refining our personal visions, and seeing reality objectively. Building shared vision: The capacity to translate individual visions into collective visions that galvanize a group of people based on what they’ll really like to create together. Mental models: Learning to unearth our own personal pictures of the world, to bring them to the surface so that we see how they impact our actions. Team learning: Spending time together to suspend assumptions and come up with new ideas. Systems thinking: What causes patterns of behavior? It is a framework for seeing the whole picture instead of […]
  2. Two inner forces can drive a person to use all of his capabilities. He can be competence-driven or achievement-driven. The former concerns itself with job or task mastery. A virtuoso violinist who continues to practice day after day is obviously moved by something other than a need for esteem and recognition. He works to sharpen his own skill, trying to do a little bit better this time than the time before, just as a teenager on a skateboard practices the same trick over and over again. The same teenager may not sit still for ten minutes to do homework, […]
  3. The discipline of personal mastery starts with clarifying the things that really matter to us, of living our lives in the service of our highest aspirations. Here, I am most interested in the connections between personal learning and organizational learning, in the reciprocal commitments between individual and organization, and in the special spirit of an enterprise made up of learners. — The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge Source: Amazon Kindle […]
  4. Human Centrality: A common view is that science has consistently been correcting our overly inflated view of our own significance. Stephen Jay Gould said, “The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.” But it turns out that we are central, after all. Our ability to create models—virtual realities—in our brains, combined with our modest-looking thumbs, has been sufficient to usher in another form of evolution: technology. That development enabled the persistence of the accelerating pace that […]
  5. Trust begins to emerge when we have a sense that another person or organization is driven by things other than their own self-gain. With trust comes a sense of value—real value, not just value equated with money. Value, by definition, is the transference of trust. You can’t convince someone you have value, just as you can’t convince someone to trust you. You have to earn trust by communicating and demonstrating that you share the same values and beliefs. You have to talk about your WHY and prove it with WHAT you do. Again, a WHY is just a belief, […]

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