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Accomplishment...As we advance, as individuals and as a society, we evolve an array of techniques for accomplishing our goals. Scientific inquiry is one, as is a mechanical tool. Force of personality is another, as is financial management. Given a goal, how do we choose the best technique? This is the essential problem of management. In our discussion of science, programming and engineering, we tackled this analysis through analysis of the various goals, their embedding context, and the skills of the disciplines. A large part of the goal of these early chapters is to clarify the applicability of the three paradigms of human intellectual endeavor. Each of the paradigms addresses a specific set of human goals, in an applicable context, and requires us to employ certain skills. Individuals will possess varying degrees of native capacity in each area, but I hope to describe general practices that can be used to focus the will to broaden and improve our skills. In the process, I hope to demonstrate how self-accomplishment - our capacity to manage ourselves - is linked to accomplishment in the larger sense. While this might seem obvious, it should be remarked that our society has substituted energy - the capacity to entrain other people in our wake - with accomplishment. The looming consequence of this error is social disorder and dysfunction, and perhaps global ecological collapse. |
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