Category: Constructs
Constructs are the core conceptual formulations necessary for the operationalization of a science.
A set of constructs together form the theoretical framework of a field/domain of work.
To seek meaning is to seek life.
To lose meaning is to lose life itself…
Freedom Space has two characteristics: one is the boundary, which is the responsibility; and the other is freedom. Once seen like this, one understands that design is about maximizing the freedom space…
Most identity-constructs, in the final analysis, are subjective, open to constant reassessment, leave us unsure, and keep us bounded.
These are disabling identities for the evolutionary adventurer…
How to become capable of unleashing possibilities in the communities one serves, free of intellectual pride or arrogance?
Where does ‘reason’ (as opposed to faith) sit? In the realm of matter? In the realm of society? On in some other space.
The answer to this question comes when we recognize that the fundamental axiom on which religion itself is based is neither knowledge nor experience at either the physical plane or the social plane. Religion is based on realization at the plane of the human being…
Ownness is to see the other person as myself. Not as complementary, not as my friend, but as me. That person’s success is my success, that person’s failure is my failure…
When you focus on the student, do not focus on the personality or on creating excitement; instead focus on fundamentally reducing the pain associated with learning, and enhance the value associated with the outcome of learning…
The search for truth is the struggle to unpack the next framework from the existing “tempfacts” (temporary facts) at our command…
Character is the ideal when “tested” by life…
Solution Design celebrates wholeness, and demonstrates the power of value…
Character is of the nature of renunciation and rigor…
Purpose-led conduct builds in wisdom (flowing from purpose) with value creation (flowing from profit seeking).
What if an organization seeks to remain without purpose? The end is likely to be a little bit like the Roman Empire – a great organization destroyed by its absence of higher purpose…
People choose ideals that they find suitable. Further, the ideals themselves shape choices and values further strengthening their roots in the ideal – and so on…
Faith implies knowledge in action.
To know is insight. To act is experience.
To have faith is to believe in the world that is coming into being and to know and act out of that belief.
How can one believe before one knows?
To answer this question one must know what belief means and how it is different from knowledge…
How do some people manage to retain the ‘citizen state of mind’ through ups and downs in the external world? They are able to do so, because they shift the basis of their identity. Put differently, they have a fundamentally different answer to the question, “who am I?”…
Adaptive Competence is understood better in the context of two other forms of competence: “Generative competence” and “Delivered competence”.
By converting mental models into Formal Models, we are converting them for a generic set of mental operations to a concrete, purposive, set of mechanisms used by the human mind to process and reform the data/ inputs being provided by the external world.
Can mental models open up worlds rather than restrict views?
Where is innovation born? Can it be that by simply attending to a problem, wholly and uninterruptedly, a new state of being comes into place?
How does a person, caught up in the warp and weft of daily struggle engage with himself/herself and the world, such that he/she can mould himself/herself into a person living, breathing, and realizing the ‘Ideal of Fulfillment’?
We need to nurture both the outside-in and inside-out dimensions of our personal identity to function simultaneously, responsibly and effectively, both in the local context and in the global society…
Challenge-response dynamics rent open the fabric of “comfort and safety” born of misplaced faith in the material. Each time this fabric is torn apart, a greater faith in that beyond is born – faith in the Consciousness that is beyond all challenge-response dynamics…