Category Archives: Contegrity Principles

Our Nasty Little Secret: We Don’t Know Jack About Development

It is time for an aside after my last post regarding development as an investment. And that is while we might understand the word “development”, that does not mean we have much of a deep grounding nor power regarding “development”. … Continue reading

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“Personhood” vs. “Connected Self” — What Kind of “Who” are “You”?

The very idea of “who one is” is fraught with peril. There is almost no good answer in normal conversation — if one’s interest is fulfillment. And many of the answers are downright suppressive, not to mention deeply misleading, as … Continue reading

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Unfolding Power

The third leg of the Contegrity Approach’s “triangle of fulfillment” is “power“. In all likelihood, what I mean by power, and what people normally think of as power, have little to do with each other. This discrepancy is quite parallel to … Continue reading

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Engaging in “What’s Fitting” vs. Just “Fitting In”

The second aspect of the “Triangle of Fulfillment” (see earlier post) that I would like to address further is that of “fit“. There are many senses of use of the term “fit“. The closest usage to what I mean here is … Continue reading

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Freedom From vs. Freedom For

As a follow-up to the Primer Regarding Fulfillment post, I’d like to address each of the three aspects of the “triangle of fulfillment” —  Free, Fitting, and Powerful. First, I’d like to address Free or Freedom. (And let us recognize and … Continue reading

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A Primer Regarding Fulfillment

Contegrity Wisdom takes as the aim of its work addressing the question, “What fulfills a human life?” It does not settle for what adjusts a human life, what makes for a successful human life, or what makes life fun and … Continue reading

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Do You Reserve The Right to Be Offended?

If you do, it costs you. Big time. Would you be willing to give up the right to be offended by others and life for six months on a trial basis? That commitment transformed a senior management team at a … Continue reading

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Who is a Grown Up?

Normal English would say, “What is a grown up?” “What” indicates a “person, place or thing”. The more awake you are, the more you know that considering a person to be similar to a thing is a deep, deep problem. … Continue reading

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When You’re Small, You’re Small

It would be nice if that title said it all. Assuming it doesn’t, let me say what I was thinking in writing it. I have numerous examples of people feeling small, acting small, or over-reacting from being small that I … Continue reading

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We Begin by Going Backwards

In the arena of human development and evolution (transformations followed by development until the next transformation is called for), I find that there is first “backwards” to go. Otherwise, everything that will be said, new notions and new arenas of … Continue reading

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