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Right now, in your current situation, you are asked to or informed to, undertake or perform certain actions.  When these instructions and activities align with your natural instinct it is easy.  When there is a lack of alignment we know that there are tensions, contradictions, conflicts and compromises created.  Often these creep up on us, where one small thing leads to another until the snowball is in full avalanche mode.   When you feel that comfort blanket of alignment, you should use the peak paradox framework to look for paradoxes, because you are aligned.  It does not mean everyone is aligned or you are doing the right thing, but it feels easy.  The sense of natural alignment is a conformational bias that is hard to fight, but it is time to focus on where paradoxes can exist. When that comfort blanket is missing and we are in the open white waters of turmoil, the Peak Pardox framework is designated to unpack where and from who and what decision ...

Image: Andrew McCarthy   https://www.instagram.com/p/B--9AFgJZ4-/ We know there will be normal on the other side of the lockdown and recession, but what is it and how will it be different? In seven weeks of lockdown, we have experienced seven years of process alternations and digital adaptations. If COVID19 had not emerged we would not have undertaken such digitization changes in such a time frame.  This pandemic has only just begun given the history of HIV which has just had its 40th birthday and SARS at 15, both complex viruses neither have vaccines.  We lack data right now and most of our actions are based on human hope and wishful thinking for better outcomes than the worst-case scenario. A new landscape It almost feels like we have been living on the lite side of the moon, seeing and understanding the layout of the land, its structure, our infrastructure and our connections.  The global pandemic has forced us to move to the other side of the moon, the side wit...

define: Agency [the ability to shape the context of one’s life] define: Purpose [the belief that there is something beyond your immediate self that matters] define: Belonging [the belief that there is a context to which you matter in turn] define: Power [practical access to genuine opportunities to shape that context] define: Agree [time gives experience which concludes I accept or understand] Run (life) TIME = 0 REPEAT  Agency AND (Purpose, Belonging, Power) = TRUE; TIME = TIME + 1 UNTIL Agree; THEN Print ("I am therefore I now have Identity") End ------ Start here on the Stanford Site talking about Plato In very general terms, an agent is a being with the capacity to act, and ‘agency’ denotes the exercise or manifestation of this capacity.  The philosophy of action provides us with a standard conception and a standard theory of action. The former construes action in terms of intentionality, the latter explains the intenti...