Attempting the Impossible

Willingness in Extremis

Earlier investigations discovered that creativity in endeavours (RsH) depends on willpower and emerges from an urge to rise to a challenge.

The focus there was on the transcendence levels: it was not enough to communicate-RL5, communications needed to be intensified; not enough to have a purpose-RL6, your purposes needed to be always kept in mind; and it was not enough to be willing-RL7, you had to be fully willing.

In this investigation of the willingness domain, it has been necessary to clarify exactly what «being fully willing» entails and how it appears apart from its use in endeavours. The first implication is that all 7 levels of willingness will need to be activated—anything less would be incomplete by definition—and the use of all 7 levels generates the framework for a serious involvement (PH7K).

Serious involvement will make all the difference for your prosperity if that is important to you. If you are more concerned for others in need, serious involvement allows you to render assistance most effectively. However, the most significant involvement occurs when you are dealing with a challenge that seems self-evidently impossible or a situation that is threatening and seems utterly hopeless. If, nevertheless, something is attempted, then being fully willing becomes absolutely essential.

Remember: Closed The focus in the present section is not on any particular endeavour, it is on the psychosocial functioning that supports an inner activation and enables a personal orientation that makes rising to any challenge possible.

Being Fully Willing starts with Hope

As developed earlier, the elements of willingness are rather ordinary psychosocial functions that become specialized by a fully conscious awareness that things may not go well and that continuance will be stressful or problematic.

Every activation of a willingness element therefore can bring with it a silent or articulated hope that the undesired and frustrating factors will not dominate and dissipate energies.

Will that hope be realized? It is impossible to know. The willingness element just has to be activated as a matter of faith. This means that each level of willingness becomes a vehicle of faith, and its activation instils hope.

Hope, by itself, is not a strategy. Nor is faith. Hope and faith often appear to be no more than wishful expectations that reveal and indulge passivity. Hope that is generated by activating willingness is not a strategy either, but it is far from a passive indulgence. Instilling hope is an active initial step in making a meaningful difference to an impossible situation.

To strengthen the effects of each level of willingness and put substance on the bare bones of hope and faith, the levels can be combined. Combinations can be expected to illuminate all the complex willingness forms that may need to be activated when attempting the impossible.

In THEE, combinations of levels are found in structural hierarchies and that is what will be developed n this section, grouping by grouping.

Before developing the framework for attempting the impossible:

Originally posted: 30-Jun-2026