Mastery: it takes willingness.  More particularly it depends on learning in a way that uses your willingness to the full.  But you have to be willing.

I am always amazed at just how often willingness is omitted in academic models and management consulting tools.  Even the famous GROW model: Goals, Reality, Options, Will pussyfoots.  But willingness cannot be taken for granted and, rather than being synonymous with will, it is the 7th Level in the Will Hierarchy.  Consciousness in Western society has not yet fully embraced this highest experience-dominated level (nor the 7th Level of many other THEE frameworks).

Learning is a manifestation of willingness-PH7 and is current located at level-6. Becoming maximally effective, mastering something that is important to you, is surely related to learning.  I noticed that mastery can be developed in distinct and contradictory ways. This is precisely what characterizes a Principal Typology in THEE.

A dollop of generous help has let me work out the Principal Typology nested in Learning-L6 within Willingness-PH7.  This blog provides some initial thoughts:More...

The elements in being human are still mysterious for many.  

I guess that if you ask most people to identify human elements, they will wonder what you are talking about.  You will say: "just name those things that enable you to be human, that mean that you are human and not a machine or a plant or just another animal".  They will want examples.  You refuse.  They squirm, struggle and hazard some guesses: "Is it language then?" or "making tools?" or "laughing?" or "civilization?" 

Why is being human so strange?

If you want to show them some long lists of human elements, send them More...

You will read again and again in popular scientific articles that we human beings are not very good at handling probability.  It has become almost an article of faith.

John Kay, respected economist and academic, writes in the Financial Times (as noted here): “We do not often, or easily, think in terms of probabilities, because there are not many situations in which this style of thinking is useful."

Really?  Is that true? More...

The tax system is over-complicated and unfair. What is the simple solution?  What is the new start that is required?

The Glass-Steagall Act associated with the Great Depression was just 37 pages long.  It did the obvious thing of separating deposit-insured banks from firms taking investment risks.  It worked fine for decades.  The repeal of this Act in the late 1990s was the trigger-cause of the global financial crisis.  It was the step too far by the political-financial elites that was 100% predictable in THEE's schema.

Without it there would still have been a crisis of government debt or some other catastrophic malfeasance intrinsic to vested-interest plutocratic pluralism, but we would not More...

If you can help with WILLINGNESS, you will simultaneously help me in my struggle to grasp CHANGE.  Both are intrinsic to pursuing our endeavours.

I explained in my last blog how I try to get things progressively clearer.

A crucial feature is ensuring the pattern is right: which means that other elements in the system work well.  I call this structural corroboration.  

So right now, I want help for something in Personal Endeavour that may be so approximate that it is wrong and misleading.  Understanding Endeavour depends on properly appreciating the seven Root Levels that constitute it and define it fully.  Of these, CHANGE has proved to be the toughest nut to crack.  I'm depending on work in other areas to provide more clues before I launch an assault on its bastions.More...