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“Search your own heart with all diligence for out of it flow the issues of life.”
in reaping for so long where we have not sown, perhaps we have forgotten the need to sow.
We see the world, not as it is, but as we are—or, as we are conditioned to see it.
The more aware we are of our basic paradigms, maps, or assumptions, and the extent to which we have been influenced by our experience, the more we can take responsibility for those paradigms, examine them, test them against reality, listen to others and be open to their perceptions, thereby getting a larger picture and a far more objective view.
When relationships are strained and the air charged with emotion, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.
Knowledge is the theoretical paradigm, the what to do and the why. Skill is the how to do. And desire is the motivation, the want to do. In order to make something a habit in our lives, we have to have all three.
independence is not supreme.
business partners who imagine the worst scenarios possible and write them up in legal language, killing the whole spirit of creativity, enterprise, and synergistic possibility.
legalistic language, which covers all the bases and spells out qualifiers and the escape clauses in the event things go sour. Such communication produces only Win/Lose or Lose/Lose.
The essence of synergy is to value the differences.
life is not just logical—it is also emotional.
