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In the field of personal development I find that some people like to collaborate and share ideas and learn from each other, which to me, is personal and profession development and growth. This got me thinking about collaboration, which got me thinking about collaborating with others who have thought about growth through collaboration. I went on a search for quotes of others who believed in the expansion of knowledge and the collaboration of ideas and people, and thus, I decided to write this in collaboration with those same people.
Einstein
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death
How do we grow on an intellectual basis if we do not open our maps up to new ideas – when we realize that the map is not the territory and that to learn we must think and do knowledge at the upper levels of Blooms taxonomy and use analysis of ideas, an evaluation of ideas, and a creation or synthesis of ideas – a collaboration of ideas and thus a collaboration of those who have those ideas.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
This one seems quite self-evident to the discussion. Basically anyone who thinks they have the truth and own the truth are laughed at by the gods. Every time we update our map or model, we do so through neuro-plasticity and we experience opportunity for new ideas because of these new extensions of our maps -
Plato
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
When people speak of ownership of truth or methods and there is no growth or new knowledge but a static model that is soon to be an old saw, then the old ideologies supports the austere doctrinaire attitude of speaking to be heard, and not hearing so as to be able to speak.
Nietzsche
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Ah, sounds a bit like the territory/map distinction. This quote could inspire collaboration of ideas and methods between peoples and groups, where there is no ownership of ultimate truth, but a collaboration toward an ideology, and a semblance of truth that engenders the pragmatic end that we so desire.
Voltaire
Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
Einstein
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen
When we do not collaborate because we think we have the handle on truth it shows our prejudice toward that truth. When we identify truth with self, the challenge of that truth becomes a challenge to the self and is defended as if the self is itself in danger- prejudice is when this common sense (our truth) is so metabolized and then becomes part of the self, the ego.
Plutarch
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Even though we need collaboration, we also need to analyze and evaluate ideas, knowledge, models, and the application of those models. Collaboration is not necessarily inclusion of all ideas and thus the dilution of all ideas, but it is working together with others who offer new shoulders in which to stand, who can use our shoulders in which to stand, and who together, we both offer a shoulder for others to stand.
Newton
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
We throw out this idea of Newton’s if we do not collaborate. If we do not collaborate we cannot see further, we can only see as tall as we are, for we cannot stand on rocks, but we stand on people and look further into the territory, and together, we have 4 eyes instead of two and thus maybe the map gets a bit closer to the territory.
We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
A bridge is collaboration, a wall locks us in and locks others out. A wall then not only hinders us from receiving what others have, but it keeps us from sharing what we have. A bridge allows for the transfer of goods from one side to the other, a mutual exchange – collaboration is that bridge, a wall is the seclusion of knowledge to furtherment only of those who hold such, not to a greater knowledge, but to false ego strength, built on faulty scales and weights.
Ellison
Education is all a matter of building bridges
Education gives information, information can give knowledge, knowledge if applied becomes pragmatics, and pragmatics can bring about physical change. The sharing of this information is the means toward the end of positive physical change. Education, or information, is not meant to be a wall to keep some in and keep some out, but to build bridges.
Twain
Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Hall wrote about living with the attitude of abundance. If we can have the hope and courage to stand on the shoulders of other greats (lest we fear of falling and bumping our heads), then we too can become great, and as we become great, we have strong shoulders for others.
Used by Nelson Mandela in his 1994 inaugural speech
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
Self explanatory!!!!!!!!!!
Reagan
There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.”
And thus we end this string of quotes from those I just chose to collaborate with. Now, I could have gone this alone and strove to write some wit and some wisdom, but I thought it apropos to collaborate as we are discussing collaboration. Self-Actualization is a journey that we take with others. We are not on it alone – all growth is the results of how we map others maps, it is an interaction. The lower deficiency needs in Maslow’s Hierarchy are met through other people – we need others for our physical needs, for our safety needs, for our social needs and love needs, and even in part for our esteem needs, for without others, there is nothing to esteem – thus it takes collaboration for our self-actualization – so, as for me, I want to collaborate with others in this system of a journey, a journey that is mine, but is often traveled with others. May we all collaborate, as those who give and those who receive – a mutual self-actualization reciprocity.
Dr. Charles DesJardins is the founder and president of the Center for Self-Actualization Studies.
The Center for Self-Actualization Studies is a research forum for scholarly research in Self-Actualization. The focus of the center is to integrate, accumulate, and synergize past, current, and future theories and models of self-actualization into applied self-actualization research that culminates in positive pragmatic social changes. The Center for Self-Actualization Studies operates from a social paradigm and exists to facilitate positive social changes for the betterment of all mankind. At the current state of research it promotes the use of the latest technologies of Meta-Coaching and Neuro-Semantics to raise the level of Self-Actualization in individuals and groups.
I am currently developing the Center for Self-Actualization Studies University. The University offers a personal development curriculum that brings the student understanding in the latest findings of quantum physics, neuroscience, biology, NLP, Neuro-Semantics, Self-Actualization Psychology, physiology, meditation, etc.
Most current university programs prepare the student for a career. The Bachelors degree, the masters degree, and even the Ph.D. prepare the student for career. Very few Universities have the strategic goal of personal development. It is the view of the Center for Self-Actualization Studies University that until a person is operating at their best performance, that is, peak performance, they will not be operating at their best in their careers, thus, there are limits to their bachelor, master, and Ph.D. learning’s. Thus, the Center of Self-Actualization Studies University offers a very theoretical as well as practical online university program - designed for the students LIFE, their personal development and Self-Actualization.
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I am also the publisher and chief editor of the Journal of Self-Actualization Psychology. The Journal of Self Actualization Psychology is journal that publishes articles and research results around the subject of self-actualization psychology.
I am a Certified Meta-Coach and I have my Ph.D. in Training and Performance Improvement. I also have a M.B.A in Strategic Management.
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