Creativity Is A Central Source Of Meaning

A Thoroughly Socialized Person Is One Who Desires Only The Rewards That Others Around Him Have Agreed He Should Long For - Rewards Often Grafted Onto Genetically Programmed Desires.a Person Who Cannot Override Genetic Instructions When Necessary Is Always Vulnerable..the Solution Is To Gradually Become Free Of Societal Rewards And Learn How To Substitute For Them Rewards That Are Under One's Own Powers.

One Must Develop Skills That Stretch Capacities, That Make One More Than What One Is.

What Does This Contradictory Pattern Mean?one Conclusion Seems Inevitable: When It Comes To Work, People Do Not Heed The Evidence Of Their Senses. They Disregard The Quality Of Immediate Experience, And Base Their Motivation Instead On The Strongly Rooted Cultural Stereotype Of What Work Is Supposed To Be Like. They Think Of It As An Imposition, A Constraint, An Infringement Of Their Freedom, And Therefore Something To Be Avoided As Much As Possible.

Through Learning We Grow, Becoming More Than We Were Before, And In That Sense Learning Is Unselfish, Because It Results In The Transformation Of What We Were Before, A Setting Aside Of The Old Self In Favor Of A More Complex One.

Many Business Leaders Today View Their Jobs As Entailing Responsibility For The Welfare Of The Wider Community. These Individuals Do Not Define Themselves As Profit-making Machines Whose Only Reason For Existing Is To Satisfy Escalating Expectation For Immediate Gain.