Crises in Endeavours
Response to Crisis
Life's challenges are met by a wide variety of endeavours, large and small. Most of them pass off virtually without being noticed, while some are evidently major. There are several different responses to crises engendered by failure, breakdown, or intense opposition in regard to meeting one of life's challenges. Albert O. Hirschman brilliantly captured these options within a group context as: Exit, Voice or Loyalty.
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Endeavour-Proper & Recover+Renew Efforts
The difference between «endeavours-proper» and «recovery + renewal efforts» is to be found in the relation between a person and their environment. In endeavours-proper, we must accept that the environment is generally more powerful than the person.
In R+R efforts, we deal with the special situation in which a person wilfully opposes the forces exerted by their environment. So R+R efforts are not a form of endeavour-proper. They are rather dynamic transcendental states using our mental capacities which support endeavours-proper by re-articulating their nature and organizing their reconstruction in a creative way.
In practice, these R+R efforts are entangled with features of endeavours-proper, which continue alongside and require continuing inputs and interactions, social and physical. The R+R effort (if handled well) enables the related endeavours-proper to be more effectively pursued and successfully realized.
Eventually, as the situation resolves, R+R can be wound down. But some creative individuals maintain such efforts over long periods of time to good effect.
Forms of Endeavour-Proper
Each life challenge has typical endeavours-proper that it demands, as shown in this Matrix.
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Life Challenge | Typical Endeavours-Proper | R+R Effort | Framework |
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Use Time Well |
Handling minor everyday tasks intrinsic to living, like it or not. Preparatory efforts for new goals. | Overcoming inertia
so as to stop the avoidance. |
Tree of PH-L1s
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Produce Achievements | Completing projects. Developing a business. Implementing work plans. Reaching major goals. | Refusing to give up
so as to make a project succeed. |
Tree of PH-L2s
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Provide Useful Accounts | Writing reports. Giving feedback. Producing policies and proposals. Developing scenarios, theories and frameworks. | Bypassing social resistance
so as to establish ideas as sound. |
Tree of PH-L3s
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Sustain Group Cohesion | Social activities, formal and informal, that enable harmonious contact and belonging. | Reducing intra-group conflict
so as to restore social harmony. |
Tree of PH-L4s
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Handle Close Relationships | Activities that sustain an ongoing relationship, or that are agreed to meet wishes within the relationship. | Resolving interpersonal differences
so as to affirm a solid bond. |
Tree of PH-L5s
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Work for Another | Work within a role or team. Managing a subordinate. Reporting to a boss. Executing a commission. | Asserting expectations
so as to design better arrangements. |
Tree of PH-L6s
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Maintain Equilibrium | Adapting to changing circumstances; activities aimed at feeling good, effective, appreciated, safe, loved &c. | Allowing self recovery
so as to repair psychic damage. |
Tree of PH-L7s
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Originally posted: 20-Sep-2013. Last amended: 30-Dec-2022.