Orientation to Endeavour

Endeavours are created by us: that is why the full THEE name is Personal Endeavour.  They flow from our creativity. Nothing can be created without endeavour: everyone knows that. However, the flip side of creativity is destructiveness. So our endeavours may also exhibit our destructiveness.

In the psychosocial world, everything of importance can be created &/or destroyed. In the physical world, by contrast, the fundamentals of mass and energy can be neither created nor destroyed.

Because it is so often forgotten that creative and destructive urges are ever-present potentials in our endeavours, I may use the redundant phrase: «creative endeavour».

Any endeavour which is not creative somewhere is mechanical, and more suitable for a machine or automaton than a human being. The more that the creative component is removed from an activity, the less is it suitable for human participation.

I always assume that endeavour demands creative participation. Because being human and being creative are virtually synonymous, THEE can be viewed as a taxonomy of the creative elements in endeavour.

This Satellite is devoted to exploring and examining the originating core of THEE, the more fundamental aspects of being and doing. Topics to be covered are close to the practicality and basics of the human condition. They include:

• Speculations on Will
• Components of Endeavour
• Methods of Transcendence.
• Significance of "doing"
• Pursuit of Endeavour
• Components of Creativity
• Dynamics of Being Creative

While there seems to be rather little to say about the Root (or Origin), of THEE, named Will, there is a great deal to say about the Root Hierarchy. When each Level in the Root Hierarchy is viewed as undifferentiated, the entity is highly personal, and that is the perspective taken in this section. It generates the a broadly defined framework for Personal Endeavour.

If Root Levels are viewed as differentiated…

…then, Root Levels reveal several thousands of entities in an ordered, complicated and architecturally satisfying structure. The Taxonomy was discovered in this downstream area, where its many elements are used by each of us. The elements are also used by impersonal agencies like organizations, in accord with the personal-social motivations of key staff.

That is why I refer to the 7 Primary Hierarchies emanated by the Root Hierarchy Levels as domains of Will. Multiple related frameworks are found within those realms. Some are close to the Root like Communication-PH5, and some are rather deep within the Taxonomy, like Interacting-for-Benefit-PH'6QH4.

The frameworks to be posted in this Satellite all lie at the core of THEE, and everything deep within those 7 domains is excluded.

The Origin and the Root Hierarchy were not easy to postulate, nor to discover or identify. The reasons are many:

• Initially, I faced social and institutional pressures to restrict myself to a small part of THEE.
• Diverse, discrete and seemingly disconnected bits of THEE were discovered over time. Each called for its own dedicated exploration, exposition and practical application.
• Each framework generated its own devoted adherents, for whom it was either the whole story, or the only part that really mattered.
• For many years, unification was a far too radical presumption given the evidence to hand.
• Forcing early closure would have been scientifically dangerous and would almost certainly have led to failure—though possibly compensated for by excellent remuneration and even public acclaim.
• The architectural arrangement of THEE is remarkably complex. Some structures are well established in systems studies and elsewhere. However, many structural aspects have no counterpart in other speculative or scientific works (to my knowledge).
• Sufficient credible validation has been and remains an ever-present demand and necessity as taxonomic unification is explored and elaborated.

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None. The more you have really lived and reflected, the better. If you haven't reflected much, other than on your personal wishes and ambitions, then here is a great opportunity.

The related frameworks to be explored in this Satellite deal with perennial personal issues.

Development of any framework needs to proceed slowly, step by step. This has occurred in the years just before and after the commencement of the thee-online website. Errors may still exist.

Taxonomic findings naturally divided into two parts: •practical and •transcendental. This Satellite covers the practical frameworks.

• Root Hierarchy—differentiates Will and is evidently about the 7 basic elements in any personal endeavour. Each of these 7 elements constitutes a massive complex domain within endeavour.
• Root Hierarchy Tree—is the framework for pursuing any personal endeavour, based on the tension generated by our affirmation of autonomy and its various constraints.
• Structural Root Hierarchy—contains the components required for creativity in work and everyday life.
• Structural Root Hierarchy Tree—is about being creative, based on the tension generated between what exists and what is new.

The transcendental frameworks are internal structures located within the 6th Level of the Root Hierarchy: RH-L6 Purpose. They are handled within the Your Better Self Satellite.