The Self Mastery Challenge – Week #2 Complexity and Change

15th July 2024

“If you only do what you can do
you’ll never be more than you are."

Kung Fu Panda 3

From Week #1 you should now see that from an existential perspective there is tension between who you think you are and who you really are – and hopefully you see the idea that reality is temporal – hence it changes as time goes by.

Now consider that we are all born into a specific context – the context is the bigger picture environment that you are born into rather than the specifics of your life. Remembering that reality is temporal, I would propose to you that Context has shifted and we are now living in a complex environment. It is the impact of complexity that I would like to address now, and in relation to answering the question of ‘How to create a self mastery system in such an environment’.

Let’s start with a simple context – you are born into a stable isolated family where you are the only child – you get hungry, you cry, you get fed, you sleep – simple see? The cause and affect relationship is st…