The Self Mastery Challenge – Week #6 – Reviewing the System

12th August 2024

Art from Geographical Portfolio — Comprising Physical, Political, Geological, and Astronomical Geography by Levi Walter Yaggy, 1887 – sourced from ‘The Marginalian’ by Maria Popova (which I highly recommend!)

“There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who profit from the old order, and only luke warm defenders in all those who would profit from the new.”

Niccolo Machiavelli.

This Machiavelli quote may seem like a strange place to start from when considering the notion of systems thinking but really I think it gives some insight into what’s happening within you. If you recall the existential framework from week #1 ( https://acping.substack.com/p/the-self-mastery-challenge-week-1) you can see that the past has momentum – think of a heavy flywheel that has been turning for a while – regardless of whether or not you keep turning the flywheel it wil…