Sublime

Because this willpower ethic has become internalized, we learn at an early age to shame and manhandle our unruly parts. We simply wrestle them into submission.

Alan Schoenfeld, a math professor at Berkeley,

the Self says no to impulsive parts firmly but from a place of love and patience, in just the same way an ideal parent would.

creativity, courage, curiosity, a sense of connection, compassion, clarity, calm, confidence.

Among the philosophical sources, perhaps most influential was the work of the educator and social innovator Rudolf Steiner, whose synthesis of science, consciousness, and social innovation continues to inspire my work and whose methodological grounding in Goethe’s phenomenological view of science has left the most significant imprint on Theory U.

The mono-mind paradigm has caused us to fear our parts and view them as pathological. In our attempts to control what we consider to be disturbing thoughts and emotions, we just end up fighting, ignoring, disciplining, hiding, or feeling ashamed of those impulses that keep us from doing what we want to do in our lives. And then we shame ourselves f

SELF-INSIGHT: WHO HAS ACCURATE VIEWS OF THEIR ASSETS AND LIMITATIONS?

seek constructive criticism.

we should correct irrational beliefs or meditate them away, because those beliefs are seen as obstacles emanating from our one mind.